Global Academy (Hybrid) on NATURAL RESOURCE LAW & GOVERNANCETurin, Italy | 14-24 April 2026

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PROF. DR. MAJA SERŠIĆ

Professor of International Law & Head

International Law Department

Faculty of Law

University of Zagreb

10000 Zagreb

CROATIA

Areas of Expertise

International Environmental Law; Law of the Sea; Responsibility in International Law; Human Rights Law; Law of Armed Conflict

Brief Bio

University Education B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

Invited Lecturer and Speaker at postgraduate courses and international conferences, including Anacapri, Baeza, Barcelona, Geneva, Genoa, London, Ljubljana, Naples, Palermo - Agrigento, Tunis, Warsaw

Government Representative before the ICJ and Arbitration Tribunal:
2007 - 2013 Co-Agent of the Republic of Croatia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia);
2008 and 2014 Member of the team of the Republic of Croatia in the oral proceedings before the ICJ;
2010 – 2014 Agent of the Republic of Croatia before the Arbitral Tribunal in the case concerning Land and Maritime Delimitation between Croatia and Slovenia; head of the Croatian team in the oral proceedings before the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague in 2014.

Experience in Multilateral Negotiations (as Government Representative), inter alia:
UNEP/ Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP):
- participated in amending process of the Barcelona Convention and its related Protocols and the Mediterranean Action Plan (1994-1995);
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea:
- Member of the Croatian delegation at the Meetings of the States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1995-1998);
UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict:
- participated in the process of Revision of the 1954 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the adoption of the 1999 Protocol (1995-1999);
- Member of the Bureau of the 1954 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its 1999 Protocol (2010-2014).

Membership in International Bodies, inter alia,
-1997 - 2010 Member of the Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (ABE-LOS) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);
-1998 - 2008 Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe;
-2002 - 2012 Permanent Court of Arbitration, Arbitrator under Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes relating to Natural Resources and/or Environment;
-2004 - 2006 member of the European Science Foundation (ESF); Standing Committee for the Social Sciences.

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