Scientific and applied conference on "The Reform of Protection against Domestic Violence"

The Institute for the State and the Law has the pleasure of inviting you to attend a scientific and applied conference on the topic "The Reform of Protection against Domestic Violence". The conference will be held on 22 November, on the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November). The conference will be attended by both established scholars and many young researchers and doctoral students in the field of law from BAS and the Faculties of Law across the country. The conference will be held in the "Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall in the Central Building of BAS, starting at 9:00, and admission is free for anyone wishing to attend the event.

The full programme of the event is as follows:

22.11.2023

First panel

Domestic violence and gender-based violence

Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova

09:00 - 09:25 Registration of participants

09:25 - 09:45 Some general problems of combating domestic violence in Europe

Prof. Irena Ilieva, PhD, Director of the Institute for the State and the

Law at BAS

09:45 - 10:00 Legal protection against domestic violence in Bulgaria: changes and problems

Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova, PhD, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS, Faculty of Law of Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"

10:00 - 10:15 Rethinking domestic violence in law

Assoc. Prof. Deyana Marcheva, PhD, Department of Law of New Bulgarian University

10:15 - 10:30 The Istanbul Convention and the problem of gender identity

Prof. Ivan Ruschev, Corresponding Member, DSc, Faculty of Law of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Institute for the State and the Law at BAS

10:30 – 10:45 Policies against domestic violence in a comparative international perspective and conclusions for Bulgaria

Prof. Rositsa Rangelova, DSc, Institute for Economic Research at BAS

10:45 – 11:00 Protection against domestic violence in Bulgaria and the Istanbul Convention

Prof. Maria Slavova, PhD, Faculty of Law of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"; Margarita Petrova

11:00 – 11:15 Hasty legislation as an "intimate relationship"

Assoc. Prof. Toni Dimov, PhD, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS

11:15 – 11:30 Domestic violence among same-sex couples

Doctoral student Filip Samuilov, Department of Law at New Bulgarian University

11:30 – 11:45 The Chinese experience in combating domestic violence

Assoc. Prof. Mariana Tien, PhD, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS

11:45 – 12:00 Regulation of services for victims of domestic violence

Nadya Shabani, Director of the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

Second panel 

Practical problems in the implementation of legal protection against domestic violence

Moderator: Chief Assist. Prof. Petar Topurov

13:00 – 13:15 Procedural aspects of the reform of protection against domestic violence

Chief Assist. Prof. Atanas Blidov, PhD, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS

13:15 – 13:30 Economic dimensions of the reform of protection against domestic violence and the role of prevention

Chief Assist. Prof. Teodora Peneva, PhD, Institute for Economic Research at BAS

13:30 – 13:45 The precedent: the "Debora" case – between values and norms

Chief Assist. Prof. Lyuboslava Kostova, PhD, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at BAS

13:45 – 14:00 The amendments to the Protection against Domestic Violence Act concerning the proceedings for the imposition of protection measures

Chief Assist. Prof. Suzana Rangelova, PhD, Faculty of Law and History of South-West University "Neofit Rilski"

14:00 – 14:15 Debatable questions concerning the declaration under Art. 9, para. 3 of the Protection against Domestic Violence Act

Chief Assist. Prof. Petar Topurov, PhD, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS

14:15 – 14:30 Parenting practices of mothers who are victims of domestic violence: the influence of attachment style

Doctoral student Maria Sokolova, Institute for Population and Human Studies at BAS

14:30 – 14:45 Duration of proceedings and time limits under the Protection against Domestic Violence Act

Doctoral student Elka Porominska, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS

14:45 – 15:00 Peculiarities of legal representation in protection against domestic

violence

Adv. Petar Yotov, Pleven Bar Association

15:00 – 15:15 Proceedings for the prevention of and protection against domestic violence in the light of the reform of the Protection against Domestic Violence Act

Doctoral student Teodora Deneva, Centre for Legal Sciences at Burgas Free University

15:15 – 15:30 Is a final decision under the Protection against Domestic Violence Act subject to revocation?

Assist. Prof. Ivan Georgiev, Faculty of Law of the University of National and World Economy

15:30 – 15:45 The main points of the draft Ordinance approving the medical standard in "Forensic Medicine and Deontology"

Rositsa Rogova, PhD, Institute for the State and the Law at BAS, lecturer at VUSI

15:45 – 16:00 Closing of the conference.

Organising Committee: 

Prof. Irena Ilieva; Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova; Assoc. Prof. Petar Bonchovski; Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Kolev; Chief Assist. Prof. Atanas Blidov; Chief Assist. Prof. Petar Topurov

Media partner: 

Bulgarian National Radio, "The Law and Themis", presented by Aneliya Toroshanova.

The conference is part of the activities for the implementation of the project "Protection against Domestic Violence", carried out thanks to the financial support of the "Young Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers-2" programme