Assist. Prof. Dr. Svetislav Kostić 

Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

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Svetislav Kostić is an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law and expert on EU tax law and its application in South East Europe. Besides lecturing European and international tax law, he published several articles on the topic, in which he articulated his special interest in cross-border dimensions in taxation. Prof. Kostić received his LL.M from the University of New York, School of Law in 2008 and defended his PhD at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law in 2014. He is a member of the SEE LJ editorial board.

Prof. Dr. Maja Čolaković

Faculty of Law, University “Džemal Bijedić”, Mostar

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Prof. Dr. Maja Čolaković is a full time associate professor at the University of Mostar, “Džemal Bijedić” Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Management Board of SEELS as well as Member of the editorial board of the SEE LJ. Prof. Čolaković is highly dedicated to cross-broader cooperation and the reactivation of academic cooperation in South Eastern Europe as well as the legal approximation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union. Being an expert on EU private law, she is particularly interested in Personal Rights, EU health law, and the practice of the courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the light of EU law. Prof. Čolaković graduated at Faculty of Law, „Džemal Bijedić“ University of Mostar in 1989 and obtained her LMM at Faculty of Law University of Sarajevo in 2004. In 2010 she defended her PhD with her thesis entitled “The right to physical integrity as a personal right with the main focus on the person’s right to dispose with his own body parts”. Prof. Čolaković served as vice dean of the Faculty of Law from 2010 till 2015. 

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ivana Simonović

Faculty of Law, University of Niš

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Asst. Prof.Dr. Ivana Simonović is member of the editorial board of the SEE LJ. As regular staff member of the University of Niš, Faculty of Law. Asst. Prof. Dr. Simonović started her academic career as Junior Teaching Assistant in 2004 and became Assistant Professor in livil law in 2013 after receiving her Doctor’s Degree with Honours in civil law in the same year. In her current function Ms. Simonović teaches among other subjects the fundamentals of European private law, medical law and serves as an instructor at the Civil Legal Clinic (free legal aid program for socially destitute persons) at the University of Niš. In her latest publication she focused on the analysis of the concept of non-discrimination rule in relation with private autonomy. Ms. Simonović is actively engaged in the activities of SEELS, participating as a lecturer in the Summer School ‘EU Open Markets’ in 2015.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Tunjica Petrasevic

Faculty of Law, University “Josip Juraj Strossmayer”, Osijek

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Asst. Prof.Dr.Tunjica Petrašević is member of the editorial board of the SEE LJ. He holds a Jean Monnet chair for EU Law at the University of Osijek and is Vice-Dean for Science and Postgraduate Studies. Prof.Petrašević research focus is in Legal Aspects and Regional and International cooperation in the EU.He received his PhD University from the Zagreb Faculty of Law in 2011 in European Public Law. In 2010 he gained work experience as Stagiere at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. In the period between 2011 and 2014 Dr. Petrašević participated as researcher/teacher in the Jean Monnet Module' 'EU Law: Basic Introduction, Preliminary Ruling procedure, Legal Aspects and Regional and International cooperation’. In 2013 he expanded his international experience as guest lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria as well as at the Kazimiero Simonovičiaus Univeristy in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2014. In the same year Dr. Petrašević published the book ‘Preliminary ruling procedure before The Court of Justice of the EU’.

Prof. Dr. Edita Čulinović-Herc

Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka

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Edita Čulinović-Herc is a professor at the faculty of Law in Rijeka where she holds the position of the Head of the Commercial and Company Law Chair. She her Ph.D at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1997. She was engaged as a course coordinator for several courses at the graduate study program (Commercial, Companies, Banking and Capital Market Law) and at the postgraduate level “International Economic law”. She was a member of the two working groups in the process of negotiation for the accession of the Croatia to EIN: “Company law” and “Consumers and Health” appointed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia. In 2006 she was appointed as lay magistrate at Higher Commercial Court in Zagreb and in 2011 she was elected as a Vice Dean for science at the Rijeka Law Faculty. She was draftor and Principal Coordinator of the Accredited Postgraduate Specialistic Study Program at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka “Corporate Finance Law” and in 2012 a member of the Ministry of Finance Working group for preparation of the Law on UCITS Funds and the Law on Alternative Investment Funds. She was a member of the Croatian Ministry of Finance Audit Public Oversight Committee. She is an author of numerable publications. Prof. Čulinović-Herc is a member of the SEE LJ editorial board.

Prof. Dr. Iza Razija Mešević Kordić

Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo

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Asst. Prof.Dr. Iza Razija Mešević Kordić is a member of the SEE LJ editorial Board since March 2017. She is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo where she is covering the subject matter of the following courses for undergraduate and master students: Introduction to Intellectual property, Copyright and Related Rights, Industrial property, EU Intellectual Property Law and Personality Rights. She is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law in Zenica, and a legal counselor to the Association of Performers and Players in Sarajevo. In 2015 she was also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Istanbul. She obtained her degree and M.Sc. at the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo (2001 and 2006 respectively), and completed her doctoral studies and obtained her doctorate in 2014 at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Her field of expertise lies in the areas of copyright law with and strong emphasis on the EU copyright law, as well as in particular the copyright laws of countries of South-East Europe;community trademark and the EU trademark system etc. She was a Member of the Organisation Committee of the International Conference on Intellectual Property Law to Honor Professor Joseph Straus - The Role of Intellectual Property in Positioning the Economy of the Western Balkans in the Global Market, organized by the Law Faculty in Belgrade, European Patent Office and Intellectual Property Office of Republic of Serbia,to be held on 16 November 2015, and a Chairman of the Organisation Committee and the Author of the International Scientific Conference “Regional and EU Intellectual Property Challenges”, International Burch University, 6 June 2014, Sarajevo. She has published in various scientific publications and journals. 

Prof. Dr. Petar Bačić

Faculty of Law, University of Split

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Prof. Dr. Petar Bačić is member of the editorial board of the SEE LJ and founding member of the SEELS network. His expertise is marked in the field of constitutional Law. In particular, his research interests are related to European public law, human rights protection in a European perspective and judicial activism. He graduated from the Faculty of Law University of Split in 1998 and defended his master thesis on Human Rights Protection in European Organizations at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb in 2006. Prof. Bačić earned his PhD at the Faculty of Law University of Split on the topic of Constitutionalism and Judicial Activism in 2010. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Bristol, University of Staffordshire and Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches at the Doctoral School - European Studies, University of Osijek. In 2013 prof. Bačić gained professorship at the Faculty of Law in Split, where he acts as a Director of the Administrative Studies since 2012 and holds the function of the Director of the Centre for Internationalisation since 2015.

Prof. Dr. Gordana Bužarovska Lazetić

Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, University of “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” – Skopje

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Prof. Dr. Gordana Bužarovska Lazetić is the Editor in Chief of the SEE LJ and a new Manager of the Centre for SEELS starting April 2017. Her scientific background is based in the field of the criminal law, and her specific areas of interest lie in the criminal procedure law, EU public law, and within that frames the EU Criminal Procedure Law, juvenile justice, and judicial cooperation in criminal cases. She completed her professional training at the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, at the University “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, obtaining a PhD in Criminal Law in 2001. Today she is a full time professor at the same faculty. She was a vice dean for finance at the same faculty from 2008 to 2012, and a vice dean for science 2012 to 214. Currently she is a member of the University Senate.She is a representative from Republic of Macedonia in the Max Planck Partner Group for Balkan Criminology, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. She is also a member of the International Editorial Board of the Scientific and professional journal in the field of theory and practice of forensic evidence „Vještak“, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina. She is an author of many scientific articles and publications.

Prof. Dr. Nada Dollani

Faculty of Law, University of Tirana

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 Nada Dollani is Professor for Civil Law at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Law. As an expert for European private law, she has extensive teaching experience in subjects such as European consumer law and comparative private law. She participated regularly in the Civil Law Forum for South East Europe and has published numerous scientific articles on a wide range of subjects related to the interplay of Albanian and European legal affairs. After graduating in 1999 in Legal Studies from the Faculty of Law in Tirana Prof. Dollani finishing her PhD studies at her faculty in 2010. In the same year Prof. Dollani continued her research activities in the same year at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law Hamburg and University of Bologna. In addition to her academic responsibilities at the Faculty of Law in Tirana, Prof. Dollani functions as editorial board member of the SEE LJ.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Romana Matanovac Vučković

Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

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Romana Matanovac Vučković received her doctor’s degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, with the thesis "Transfer and License of a Trade Mark in the Context of the Alignment of the Croatian Law with the European Law". Since 2011, she has been employed as an Associated Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Chair, working there as a Teaching Assistant and a Senior Teaching Assistant from 2003. She adjourned her work at the Faculty of Law from 2005 to 2008, performing in that period the function of the Deputy Director General of the State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia. From 2010 to 2012, Prof.Matanovac Vučković was a consultant of the European Patent Organization in the projects of legal assistance in the field of intellectual property in Montenegro and Kosovo. She has participated in numerious EU funded projects and as a member of two working groups, she participated in the preparation of negotiations of the Republic of Croatia with the European Union for Chapter 7 - Intellectual Property Law and Chapter 26 - Education and Culture. Prof.Matanovac Vučković is a member of the SEE LJ editorial board.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Maša Alijević

Faculty of Law, University of Zenica

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Asst. Prof. Dr. Maša Alijević is assistant professor at the department for state and international public law of the University of Zenica, Faculty of Law and member of the editorial board of the SEE LJ. After undertaking her undergraduate studies at the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Law, Prof. Alijević continued her postgraduate as well as her doctoral studies at the faculty of Law in Zenica which she finished successfully in 2014. Despite the early stage of her academic career Ms. Alijević has published articles in numerous scientific magazines on topics such as the independence of the judiciary and EU-Bosnian relations in the implementation of judicial as well as constitutional reforms. Ms. Alijević is the manager of the faculty’s law magazine and was appointed vice dean for education and student affairs in 2015.