Children's Rights in the Sustainable and Digital Environments: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges

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Suzana Kraljić (ed.)
University of MAribor, Faculty of Lqw
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-6457
Cocou Marius Mensah (ed.)
University of Maribor, Faculty of Law
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-1276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/um.pf.8.2025

Keywords:

children's rights, best interests of the child, vulnerability, digitalization, sustainability

Synopsis

The scientific monograph ‘Children's Rights in the Sustainable and Digital Environments: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges’ addresses current and carefully selected topics in the field of children's rights. It specifically focuses on issues where the authors critically analyze and discuss the protection of children's rights in the context of sustainable development and digital transformation, as well as the challenges posed by both environments. The contributors engage in critical discourse and offer in-depth analyses of children's rights from both substantive and procedural legal perspectives, examining developments at the national level as well as within the international legal framework. They clearly identify inconsistencies, shortcomings, and difficulties that children's rights face in the context of sustainability and digitalization. In their contributions, the authors emphasize the importance of safeguarding children's rights in judicial proceedings and highlight the role and responsibilities of both national and international actors in this field. They further discuss selected aspects of children's vulnerability and violations of their rights, especially in relation to children affected by armed conflict, those living in crisis regions, and children with disabilities, web.

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Suzana Kraljić (ed.), University of MAribor, Faculty of Lqw

Dr. Suzana Kraljić is a full professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Law, Slovenia. She teaches and researches family law (especially child law), medical law, and succession law. She is/was the holder of five bilateral projects (in cooperation with Ozyegin University, Turkey; University of Split, Croatia; University of Džemal Bjedić, Mostar, Bosna Herzegovina; Hamline University, USA; University of Podgorica, Montenegro). She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), Phillips-University Marburg (Germany), Mykolas Romeris Vilnius (Lithuania), Masaryk Universiyt Brno (Czech Republic), Tallinn Health Care College (Estonia), University of Bucarest (Romania), Leibnitz University Hannover (Germany), Eotvos Lorand Universiyt Budapest (Hungary), Ordu University (Turkey), and Polytechnics of Medjimurje in Čakovec (Croatia). She has also cooperated in various international projects as a national reporter (guided by e. g. Deloitte Consulting Belgium; T. M. C. Asser Institute – Hague; University of Aberdeen; Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, Ferenc Madl Institute, University of Miskolc, … ).

She had a number of presentations at domestic and international conferences (Nassau, New York, Hamburg, Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Budapest, Ljubljana, Brisbane, Oslo, Vienna…).

She is the editor of the journal Medicine, Law & Society and head of the Center for Medical Law, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor.

The bibliography of Suzana Kraljić contains seven books and a number of book chapters and articles, published in national and foreign journals. She is the author of the first Slovenian commentary on the new Slovenian Family Code (2019) and co-author of the commentary on the new Slovenian Non-Contentuous Civil Procedure Act (2022). For the monograph 'Pravni izzivi skrbništva' (Legal Challenges of Guardianship), she received the award from the Ministry responsible for Family Affairs in 2022.

Cocou Marius Mensah (ed.), University of Maribor, Faculty of Law

Doc. dr. Marius C. Mensah is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty of the University of Maribor. He is born in Benin, completed elementary and high schools studies in Ottawa, Canada and International legal studies in Moscow. He successfully defended his PhD degree in 2015 on the regulations of the use of natural resources in West Africa under the conditions of Climate Change. Assistant prof. dr. Mensah has acquired extensive experience from living in multicultural societies and speaks English, French, Russian, Slovenian and two African languages. His fields of Expertise include International Law, Maritime Piracy, Migration, Environmental Law, Climate Change & Sustainable Development. He is the author of a book ‘‘ECOWAS: Ecology, Nature Management, & International Law” and has written more than 20 scientific articles in English, Russian and French. Doc. dr. Mensah participates in different academic activities including Moot Court Competitions: ‘‘ALL EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND REFUGEE LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION’’ organised by the law faculty of the University of Ljubljana and conferences organised by International Institutions, e.g. CHATHAM HOUSE, the European Commission, U.N. Association of Slovenia.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: cocou.mensah@um.si

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October 16, 2025

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2025-10-16

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Date of first publication (11)

2025-10-16

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How to Cite

Kraljić, S., & Mensah, C. M. (Eds.). (2025). Children’s Rights in the Sustainable and Digital Environments: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges. University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.pf.8.2025