Project collaborators

Prof. dr. sc. Petar Bačić is a full professor with tenure and Head of the Constitutional Law Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Split (Croatia). Besides Constitutional Law, helectures obligatory courses European Law and Human Rights Law, as well as several elective courses. At the Faculty of Law in Split he served as Vice Dean and Head of Study Program. Prof. Bačić lectures at several universites both in Croatia and abroad. He organized and lectured at several international summer schools, seminars, and study programs, and participated at numerous international scientific conferences.

He holds a Master’s Degree in International Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, and has continuously undertaken research training in fields of Comparative Constitutional Law and European Public Law in the United Kingdom (University of Bristol, University of Staffordshire), Germany (Freie Universität Berlin, Europa-Institut Saarland University), Italy (Università di Trento), India (Nirma University), Austria (Universität Innsbruck), Hungary (Central European Academy), etc. He is a Management Board member of the South East European Law Schools Network and the Croatian Association for Constitutional Law, and member of the Central European Professor’s Network and Central European Association of Comparative Law.

Prof. Bačić was a member of the President of the Republic’s Expert Commission on Constitutional Issues, and led workshops at the Judicial Academy of the Republic of Croatia within the professional development program for judicial officials. He is a member of editorial boards of several international scientific journals and publications. He actively participated in in a number of international research and professional projects, and currently serves as the leader of the Institutional research project ‘The influence of European and International Law on national legal order – challenges of adaptation for democratic state (EMPO-HR)‘ at the University of Split, Faculty of Law.  

Petra Amižić Jelovčić is Full Professor with Tenure of Maritime and Transport Law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. She was born in 1979. She graduated from the University of Split Faculty of Law in 2002, and then completed post-graduate course in the Maritime Law and Law of the Sea and received a Master’s degree in 2005 (Collision of Ships). She was awarded PhD degree in 2007 and her doctoral thesis is entitled Maritime Carriage of Nuclear Material. Petra Amižić Jelovčić has been working at the Faculty Law in Split since 2005. From 2023 she works as full professor with tenure and is the head of Department of Maritime and Transport Law at the Faculty of Law, university of Split.

She is an author of more than 40 scientific journal papers and of three scientific books; Maritime Carriage of Nuclear Material with a Special Reference to Liability for Nuclear Damage (2010), Croatian Coast Guard – Legal framework (2017) and Maritime Law (2023). She is a vice-president of Croatian Maritime Law Association.

Andrijana Bilić, PhD, Full Professor of Labour and Social Security Law, graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Split in 1998. She received the Dean’s Award for the best students in 1998. From November 1998 to May 2000, she worked as a trainee lawyer. Since 1 November 2000, she has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. She completed the postgraduate scientific programme in Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea at the Faculty of Law in Split in 2004, defending her Master’s thesis entitled “Employment Contract with Special Reference to Seafarers.” On 26 March 2011, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Flexibility and Deregulation in Employment Relationships.”On 21 December 2012, she was elected to the scientific-teaching position and title of Assistant Professor, on 30 July 2018 to Associate Professor, and on 19 December 2023 to Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, in the scientific field of Social Sciences, field of Law, and branch of Labour and Social Security Law. In teaching, she is the course leader for all subjects within the Department of Labour and Social Security Law at all levels of study conducted at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. Within the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Law, she delivers lectures and seminars in the courses Labour and Social Security Law, International Labour Law, European Labour Law, Transformation of Employment Relationships, and Trade Union Law.

At the Professional Graduate Administrative Study Programme, she teaches the compulsory course European Labour and Social Law and the elective courses Transformation of Employment Relationshipsand Free Movement of Workers. At the Professional Undergraduate Study Programme, she teaches Fundamentals of Labour, Social and Civil Service Law and Trade Union Law. At the postgraduate specialist programme “Medical Law” at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, she teaches the compulsory course Labour and Social Law in Healthcare and the elective course Trade Union Law in Healthcare. At the postgraduate specialist programme “Sports Law,” she teaches the compulsory course Sports Labour Law. Within the Postgraduate University Doctoral Programme in Legal Sciences at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, in the research area Contemporary Labour Law, she teaches within all research modules. She has participated in numerous scientific and professional conferences and has published many papers in the field of Labour and Social Law. In co-authorship with Boris Buklijaš, she published the book International Labour Law in 2006, issued by the Faculty of Law, University of Split. In 2021, she published the university textbook Labour Law, issued by Školska knjiga.

Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Split on 26 September 2002. After completing her studies, she was employed as a court intern at the Municipal Court in Split. In May 2005, she passed the Bar Exam. She completed postgraduate studies in civil law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, with the defense of her master’s thesis. In June 2012, she obtained a doctorate in social sciences, in the field of legal sciences, scientific branch civil law and civil procedural law, defending her doctoral dissertation entitled “Attorney in Civil Proceedings”. Since April 2025, she has been a full professor at the Department of Civil Procedural Law.

She participated as a researcher in a number of projects: “Recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions in the national systems of Slovenia and Croatia, and within the European Judicial Area”; Iurisprudentia – Improving the quality of education at the law faculties of the universities of Osijek, Rijeka and Split; Rights, obligations and responsibilities of patients in the exercise of legal protection, a scientific and research project within the framework of joint Croatian-Slovenian cooperation; in the project “Digital communication and safeguarding the parties’ rights: challenges for European civil procedure” funded by the European Union from the JUSTICE program.

President of the Organizing Committee of the 1st – 12th International Conference Current Issues in Civil Procedural Law – National and Comparative Legal Theoretical and Practical Achievements (2015-2026), and editor-in-chief of the Proceedings Current Issues in Civil Procedural Law – National and Comparative Legal Theoretical and Practical Achievements. She received Award for Excellence in Scientific and Research Work on Faculty of Law, University of Split. At the Faculty of Law, University of Split, she teaches as a lecturer of obligatory and elective courses at the University Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study in Law, at the Professional Undergraduate Administrative Study. Postgraduate Specialist Study in Medical Law, Postgraduate Specialist Study in Sports Law, Specialist Graduate Professional Administrative Study, and Postgraduate University Doctoral Study in Legal Sciences.

Author or co-author of three scientific books and over 100 scientific papers published in domestic and international scientific journals. She has participated as a speaker at more than 60 domestic and international scientific conferences.

Head of the Department of Civil Procedural Law (since 2023), Head of the Institute for Research on Civil Proceedings (since 2023) and Head of the Institute for Cooperation with the Economy and Institutions (since 2014). Since October 2018 to September 2021, she was Vice-Dean for Science and Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Split.

She is registered in the Croatian Register of researchers at the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, registration number 303855.

Prof. Maja Proso, PhD was born in Split in 1973. She studied at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, where she graduated in 1997. She gained legal experience and practice working as a law trainee in Split. After meeting the necessary requirements to take the bar exam, she passed it in 2000. Since 2001, she has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. She obtained her Master’s degree in 2005 from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, and her PhD in 2012 from the Faculty of Law, University of Split. At the Faculty of Law, University of Split, Department of Civil Law, she teaches as the head ofmandatory and elective courses within the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Law, the Professional Undergraduate Administrative Study, the PostgraduateSpecialist Study in Medical Law, and the Postgraduate University Doctoral Study of Legal Sciences.

She is the author of a scientific book (monograph), co-author of a university text book, and an author of numerous scientific papers. She has participated as a rapporteur, with presentations or as an invited lecturer, at many national and international scientific and professional conferences. She is the Head of the Institute for Civil Law Sciences and theDirector of the Law Clinic.

Marija Đuzel is an associate professor at the Chair of Criminal Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Split in 2006 andreceived her PhD in 2014 from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on the topic of Standards of Enforcement of Detention in Criminal Proceedings. After completing her graduate studies, she worked in a notary public office in Split. Since 2008, she has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, first as a research associate, then as a postdoctoral fellow, assistant professor and since 2022 as an associate professor. She is the Head of the Chair of Criminal Procedural Law and teaches mandatory and elective courses of the Chair. Previously, she served as the Head of the Ivan Vučetić Institute for Criminal Law and Criminological Research at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, as an Erasmus coordinator, and as the executive editor of the journal Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law in Split. In 2025, she was appointed executive editor of the Croatian Journal of Criminal Sciences and Practice.

She participated as a researcher in several scientific projects of the Croatian Science Foundation, one of which is ongoing, is the leader of an internal project of the Faculty of Law of the University of Split and a member of the institutional project of the University of Split “The Impact of European and International Law on the National Legal Order – Challenges of Adaptation for a Democratic State – EMPO-HR”. She has published several scientific and professional papers in the field of criminal procedural law and he law on the execution of criminal sanctions and has presented at several international and domestic scientific conferences and round tables.

She spent short research stays at the Free University (Freie Universität) in Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany. She was a member of the Working Group for the Analysis of the Act on the Execution of Sentences of the Ministry of Justice. She is a member of the Croatian Association for Criminal Law and Practice, the Croatian Association for European Criminal Law and the Croatian Canon Law Society. She has passed the bar exam. She is fluent in English and also speaks Italian.

Born in Split in 1978. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Split in 2000. During his studies, he won two dean’s and two rector’s awards. In 2001, he was employed at the Faculty of Law in Split as a researcher on project number 0018003 “Croatian criminal legislation in the light of European tendencies on human rights”, and in 2006 he was elected as an assistant at the same faculty. He completed postgraduate studies in criminal law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb: he defended his master’s thesis on the topic: “Endangered witnesses in criminal proceedings” in 2006. Doctoral dissertation on the topic “Preliminary criminal proceedings in contemporary international and comparative criminal procedural law“ was defended in 2011 at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. In 2022, he was elected to the scientific-teaching position of associate professor at the Department of Criminal Procedural Law of the Faculty of Law in Split.

He participates in teaching at the Faculty of Law in Split in the subjects: Criminal Procedural Law, Comparative Criminal Procedural Law, International and European Criminal Law, and Criminal Law Practice at the Law School, and in the teaching ofCriminal Procedural Law. He published one monograph, a series of articles and held several presentations at international and national scientific meetings. He is a member of several professional associations, including the Croatian Association for Criminal Law and Practice and the Croatian Association for European Criminal Law. He is registered in the register ofscientists under number 266610. From 2014 to 2018 and from 2021 to 2022, he served as vice dean for science at the Faculty of Law, University of Split.

Graduated in law from the Faculty of Law in Split (1986.). Postgraduated study of legal history originally attended at University of Belgrade (1987-1990), but finished at University of Split (1993), where he also received a doctorate in 2002. with a thesis on medieval Trogirlaw. He improved his skills in legal history at the Law faculty of Trieste 1995. Currently he is associate professor of legal history at the Split Faculty of Law, where he teaches a group of legal history subjects. He also taught a distinction course of Latin for the law students (1993.-2018). He was a visiting lecturer at the Rijeka Law Faculty (1997-1999) and Split Faculty of Philosophy and Arts.

As researcher he deals with the themes of medieval law and criminal law and procedure. He held several institutional positions at the Split Law Faculty (vice dean and dean) and University of Split (vice rector 2018-2022 and the head of the undergraduate study Communication and Media, and graduate study Journalism in Contemporary Media 2021-2024).

Associate Professor Ana Radina, PhD, has been working at the Department of Family Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Split since 2008. She obtained her PhD in 2018 within the Postgraduate Doctoral Study Programme in Civil Law Sciences and Family Law Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. She has passed the Croatian Bar Exam. She was elected to the title of Associate Professor in 2025.

At the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study Programme in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, she teaches the compulsory course Family Law, as well as the elective courses European Family Law, Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Adoption Law, and The Child in Legal Reality. She also teaches courses of the Family Law Research Area within the Postgraduate University Doctoral Study Programme in Legal Sciences at the Faculty of Law in Split.

She has undertaken professional training in Croatia and abroad. She has presented papers at international scientific conferences, she is a co-author of a scientific book and author of scientific articles addressing, among other, the child’s right to private and family life, the protection of children’s personal data, the rights of children belonging to national minorities, various aspects of legal relations between parents and children, the representation of children before the European Court of Human Rights, foster care, adoption, etc. She has also served as a reviewer of scientific and professional articles, scientific books, and university textbooks.

Lucija Sokanović is Associate Professor and Head of the Chair for Criminal Law, University of Split, Croatia, where she lecturers in Criminal Law, Commercial Criminal Law, Environmental Criminal Law, Public Financial Law of the European Union, Cryptocurrencies and Law, Medical Criminal Law and Sport Criminal Law. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Split in 2000 and received her PhD in 2014 at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb with the thesis of “Fraud in Criminal Law”. She was awarded the Dean Award for outstanding success in the study. She passed the Bar Exam in 2002. From 2000 to 2004 she worked as a Judicial Trainee and a Judicial Advisor at the Municipal Court in Kaštel Lukšić and the Commercial Court in Split. Since 2004 he has been employed as a research fellow, assistant, senior assistant and assistant professor at the Faculty of Law – University of Split. In addition to the Faculty of Law, she also teaches Economic Crime at the Forensic Department of University Sciences of the University of Split, Military Criminal Law at the University of Defense and Security “Dr. Franjo Tuđman“, Suppression of Organized Crime at the University Specialist Study in Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, and Central European Academy PhD programme of the Deák Ferenc Doctoral School of the University of Miskolc, Budapest, Hungary.

She has been professionally trained at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg and the Freie Universität in Berlin, the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science in Amsterdam. Dr. Sokanović is author and co-author of scientific papers in Croatian, English and German in the field of Criminal law and has lectured at domestic and international scientific conferences in the Republic of Croatia and abroad. Dr. Sokanović is the director of the Center for Extracurricular Activities, executive editor of DOOR, member of the board of the Croatian Association for Criminal Sciences and Practice, and member of the Croatian Association for European Criminal Law. She received the University Department of Forensic Science’s award for the best quality teaching in 2015/16, and the Award of the Student Choir of the Faculty of Law – University of Split in 2017.

Associate Professor Ivan Vukušić was born in 1985 in Šibenik. He enrolled in undergraduate law studies at the Faculty of Law in Split in 2003, and graduated in September 2007. SinceMarch 2008, employed at the Faculty of Law of the University of Split as a research assistant. From February 1 to March 1, 2009, he visited the Faculty of Law of the Freie Universität inBerlin as part of the Tempus project and in March 2013 as part of the Erasmus project, and also was trained at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg and at the Faculty of Law in Hagen. He completed his internship at the County Court in Split as a trainee judge – volunteer and passed the bar exam in 2012. In May 2008, he enrolled in the postgraduate specialist study of criminal law sciences, and then in September 2009, the postgraduate doctoral study in Criminal Law Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb.

He gained his doctorate under the mentorship of professor Davor Derenčinović in 2014 on the topic “Delineation of preparatory actions and attempts in theory and judicial practice“. He holds the subjects Criminal Law, Fundamentals of Criminal Law, Artificial Intelligence and CriminalLaw, Organised Crime, Organization of the Judiciary and Official Criminal Law. He is the author of works in Croatian and English. In his works, he deals with the analysis of the general institutes of the Criminal Code.

Ivana Radić graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Split in 2007. In March 2008, she began working at the Faculty of Law, University of Split as a research assistant on the MZOS project “Legal position of young adults in Croatian criminal legislation” (project leader: Prof. Dr. Sc. Ante Carić). She received her PhD in 2016 at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on the topic “Juvenile sanctions system” under the mentorship of Prof. Leo Cvitanović.

Since December 2016, she has been employed first as a postdoctoral researcher and from 2021 as assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law in Split.  She participates in teaching mandatory and elective courses at the same Department. She completed her internship at the Split County Court as a volunteer judicial trainee, and in 2011 passed the bar exam with special commendation.

Currently she is a researcher in the Croatian Science Foundation project “Croatian Misdemeanor Law in the European Context – Challenges and Perspectives”, project leader: Assoc. Prof. Marin Bonačić, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, member of the internal project of the Faculty of Law in Split: “Trends in Croatian Criminal Procedure Legislation – Digitalization of the Procedure, Strengthening the Position of the Victim and the Non-Public Character of the Preliminary Proceedings” – CroCrimTrend, project leader: Assoc. Prof. Marija Đuzel; member of the institutional research project of the Faculty of Law, University of Split, ”Impacts of European and International Law on the National Legal System – Challenges of Adaptation for a Democratic State” (EMPO-HR), project leader: Prof. Petar Bačić.

From 2021 to 2024, she served as the Head of the Legal Clinic of the Faculty of Law in Split. In 2024, she was appointed as Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning of the Faculty of Law in Split. She is a member of the Croatian Association for Criminal Sciences and Practice and the Association of Juvenile Judges, Family Judges and Experts for Children and Youth.

She has published several scientific and professional papers in the field of criminal procedural law, juvenile criminal law and misdemeanour law, and has presented at a number of international and domestic scientific meetings and round tables. Registered in the register of scientists of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports under ID number 303833, ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4946-6437. List of all works is available at the link: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/28434

Trpimir Perkušić was born in 1993 in Split, Croatia, where he completed primary and secondary education. He graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law, University of Split in 2016. During his studies, he received four Dean’s Awards for outstanding academic achievement, the Rector’s Award for Excellence, and a Dean’s Award for the best student professional or scientific paper. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as a trainee lawyer. Since 2017, he has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, and since 2024 he has held the position of Assistant Professor at the Chair of Labour and Social Law. He obtained his PhD in 2021 at the Faculty of Law, University of Mostar, defending his doctoral dissertation entitled “Liability for Damages caused at work and in work-related situations” By completing his doctoral studies, he earned the academic degree of Doctor of Science in the field of Social Sciences, scientific field of Law, branch Labour and Social Law.

In the academic year 2024/2025, he serves as the Head of the Chair of Labour and SocialLaw. From 2021 to 2024, he was a member of the editorial board of the Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law in Split. He also serves as the Officer for the Protection of Employees’ Dignity from Harassment and Sexual Harassment at the Faculty of Law in Split.

He actively participates in teaching within the Chair of Labour and Social Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. He is the author and co-author of several scientific publications in the field of labour law and has participated in numerous international scientific conferences. He has served as a member of both the organizing and programme committees of international scientific conferences and as a member of the editorial board of the proceedings of an international congress. He is the principal investigator of an internal research project at the Faculty of Law in Split and a member of another internal project at the same faculty. He has also participated in the implementation of an EU-funded project financed by the European Social Fund, in which the Faculty of Law in Split acts as a partner institution.

He is registered in the Croatian Register of Scientists under number 359253. He has a CROSBI profile (no. 33508), a publicly available and maintained Google Scholar profile, and ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4561-9926.

Vedran Zlatić was born on 30 August 1990 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Split in 2014. On 14 December 2021, he completed the postgraduate doctoral study programme “Public Law and Public Administration” at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, with the grade summa cum laude. He defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Modifications and Stability of the Constitution” with the grade magna cum laude, thereby obtaining the academic title of Doctor of Science in the scientific area of social sciences, the scientific field of law, and the scientific branch of constitutional law. In 2024, he was appointed to the scientific-teaching position of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, at the Chair of Constitutional Law. Since 2018, he has been a regular member of the Croatian Association for Constitutional Law, where he currently serves as the President of the Court of Honour. Since 2021, he has served as the ECTS Coordinator at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. In 2022, he was appointed a member of the working group for drafting the Self-Analysis of the Faculty of Law in Split. Since 2024, he has been a member of the International Federation of Neurolegal Sciences.

He is the author or co-author of a total of 23 scientific papers and 6 professional papers. In addition, he has published more than 50 book reviews of both international and domestic scientific literature. He is also the author of teaching materials for the course Parliamentary Law of the Republic of Croatia and Comparative Parliamentary Law, taught in the fifth year of the Law programme at the Faculty of Law in Split. He has participated in a total of 11 scientific conferences (three national and eight international), including one as a keynote speaker. He has reviewed more than 30 scientific papers in domestic academic journals and conference proceedings from international conferences. He has also served as a reviewer for one conference proceedings volume and one scientific-professional book. He has taken part in several domestic and international programmes of scientific and professional training (educational workshops, Erasmus teaching staff exchange programmes, etc.). He has also participated on several occasions in science popularisation activities, in the preparation of reports for the WJP Rule of Law Index, and in the research project WJP European Union Subnational Governance and Rule of Law Indicators. He has been, or currently is, a member of editorial boards, programme committees, and scientific committees of several national scientific and professional journals, as well as several proceedings volumes from national and international scientific conferences.

Scientist Identification Number: 359905, CRORIS ID: 33573, ORCID broj: 0000-0002-9297-5192

I was born on January 16, 1977 in Split, where I graduated from high school in mathematics and then from the Faculty of Law. During my studies, as an excellent student, I was awarded a scholarship by the City of Split. After graduating, I was employed at the Faculty of Law inSplit as a research assistant in 2001 on the project: “Modeling and preparation of production in shipbuilding“, and since 2007 I have been an assistant at the Department of Legal History. At the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, I passed all the exams in my doctoral study in European law. In 2019, I was elected as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Legal History, where I have been teaching the courses General Legal History, Croatian Legal History, and the elective courses Draft Legal History of Neighboring Countries and Dalmatian Statutory Lawthroughout my years of work.

I am the Secretary of the Department of Legal History and a member of the Committee for Improving the Quality of Teaching, and I also held the position of Confidential Person at the faculty from 2018 to 2021. Since 2025, I have been the deputy union representative of the Faculty of Law in Split. I have participated in numerous domestic and international scientific conferences as a speaker, and I am the author and co-author of several scientific papers. I am also the author of several book reviews, and a reviewer in theProceedings of the Faculty of Law in Split. I actively use English and Italian, and passively use French.

Dr. sc. Andrija Crnković, senior lecturer. Born on 22 July 1964 in Split. He is the head of the Department of Economic Sciences. His scientific works and professional expertise encompass key concepts and social processes in the fields of ecological economics and comparative security policy, while his primary scientific and research interest is related to the People’s Republic of China in the new international order.

Sanja Čović Jurčević was born on 2 October 1992 in Berlin. She completed her general secondary education in Sinj in 2011 and subsequently enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Split, where she graduated in 2016 among the top students of her generation. During her studies, she received the Dean’s Award for academic excellence and a scholarship from the City of Trilj. She spent one semester as an exchange student at Freie Universität Berlin within the Erasmus student exchange program and participated in several scientific and professional conferences.

From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a trainee lawyer in Split, after which she was appointed as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Civil Procedural Law, Faculty of Law, University of Split. In 2019, she was appointed a permanent court interpreter for the German language. Since 2021, she has been a member of the organising committee of the international scientific conference “Actualities of Civil Procedure Law – national and comparative legal-theoretical and practical achievements” and serves as the technical editor of the corresponding conference proceedings. She actively involved in the scientific, research, and teaching activities of the Department of Civil Procedural Law, including internal faculty research projects.

In 2021, she enrolled in the postgraduate university doctoral program in Legal Sciences at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, within the research field of Civil Judicial Proceedings. She successfully defended the topic of her doctoral dissertation entitled “Litigation costs” in 2023, and the dissertation is currently in its final stage of preparation.

She is the author and co-author of several scientific papers in the fields of civil law, civil procedural law, labour law, and commercial law, and has presented her research at several international scientific conferences.

Ruby Marčinković, born on December 16, 1997 in Zadar, graduated from Juraj Baraković High School in Zadar in 2016 and enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the University of Split that same year. She completed the integrated undergraduate and graduate university degree of law in 2022. with a grade point average of 4.083. During her studies she participated in extracurricular activities including panels and conferences and in the work of ELSA, where she had the opportunity to listen to interesting lectures, apply knowledge gained in specific courses in practice, learn to speak in public and gain additional knowledge in legal topics. For the results achieved in the 2016/2017 academic year she was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence. On January 11, 2022 she defended her thesis for the Constitutional Law course writing on the topic of the presidential system in the USA with an excellent grade (5). At the graduation ceremony she was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence for her academic achievements. Since March 2, 2023 Ruby has been employed as an assistant at the Constitutional Law department at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. Some of herresponsibilities include assisting faculty, providing feedback, preparing materials, participating in the supervision of practical work, administrative duties as well as attending various workshops, seminars, writing academic articles and being a member of ongoing projects. Ruby is fluent in English, Italian and French. She continues to improve her language skills at a language school.

Luka Roso was born in 1994 in Split. He completed his primary and secondary education in Vrgorac. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Split, in 2018. From 2018 to 2021, he worked as a legal trainee in a law office. From 2021, he worked as an advisor at the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Split, and since 2022 he has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Split, as a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Public International Law. In the meantime, he passed the bar exam in 2021, and in 2023 he enrolled in the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Law in Split.

He actively participates in teaching activities at the Chair of Public International Law of the Faculty of Law, University of Split. He has taken part in several international scientific conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Faculty of Law, University of Split.

He is entered in the Register of Scientists under number 408536. He also has a CROSBI profile under number 44867.