Seven internationally renowned honorary doctors of the University of Pécs have been inaugurated at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting on 4 November at the dr. Halasy-Nagy Lecture Hall. They are prominent, respected professors, who have been actively working in close cooperation with the University of Pécs. Through their professional achievements on their respective fields as well as in the joint research projects with the faculties of the University they have greatly benefited the University of Pécs as well as Hungarian science. They all have given their inaugural adresses at the repective promoting faculties, which they have summarized at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting.
Zoran Pavlović is a professor of criminal law at the University of Economics and Law of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law, he is the provincial ombudsman of the Vojvodina Autonomous Province. He is an internationally recognized professor, authority of criminal law. In 2019, he received recognition as a Honoris Causa professor at the Chinese Southeast University Law School. He is regularly invited to give lectures in China and in many countries of Europe. He regularly delivers lectures at the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the University of Pécs, he participates in international conferences. In addition to this, in the spring of 2020, he made a proposal to the Faculty’s dean for the elaboration of a mutual international training programme. Together with the leader of the Department of Criminal Law of the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law, he is the editor in chief of the Journal of Eastern European Criminal Law, the C category international professional journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which is jointly published by the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Timisoara twice a year, in Bucharest. He works as the provincial ombudsman of Vojvodina as well, inter alia, the enforcement of the rights of the Hungarian minority of Vojvodina belongs to him.
