Karlo Kožina is a PhD candidate in Legal Sciences and an Assistant at the Department of Administrative Law. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, in 2019, where he also completed his postgraduate specialist studies in 2024, earning the academic title of Specialist in Public Law and Public Administration.
After graduation, he worked as a trainee lawyer and later as a judicial trainee at the Administrative Court in Zagreb. Upon passing the Bar Exam (2023), he was appointed as a judicial advisor at the same court, where he worked until February 2024. In that same year, he joined the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb—initially as an Assistant at the Department of Administrative Science, and since September 2025, he has been employed at the Department of Administrative Law.
He pursued further education and training at the Faculty of Law (Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät), Karl Franzens University in Graz, as part of the Erasmus Programme (2019), and completed the Master Class program “Law and Politics of Terrorism: In Search of Adequate Political, Military and Legal Responses to the Threat of Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Era” at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, organized by the Geoffrey Nice Foundation and the University of Amsterdam (2017).
From 2020 to 2023, he served as a member of the Steering Committee and as the student representative in the Student Board of the project European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC).
He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the UNESCO Chair Unit of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, for the paper Protection of Dignity: Does Eugenics Exist in the Legislation of the Republic of Croatia (2016); two Dean’s Awards—for the paper Kelsen’s Conception of the Judiciary (2017, co-authored with Marko Ćusić) and for presenting the paper Towards Partnership Democracy: The Role of Judicial Review in the Theory of Ronald Dworkin at the conference Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: The XIVth CEENJ Conference (2019); the Dean’s Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to the Work of the Faculty of Law (2023); and the Eugen Pusić Award (2024) for the paper Unexpressed Principles of Administrative Procedural Law.
During his studies, he served as President of the Student Council of the Faculty of Law, President of the Pravnik Association, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pravnik. He also worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Sociology and the Department of Administrative Science.
He is a member of the Institute of Public Administration, the Zagreb Legal Theory Group, and serves as an academic mentor at the Legal Clinic and Upravni kompas of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb.
He has published several scientific and professional papers, reviews, and essays in the fields of administrative law, public administration, and legal theory, and has participated as an organizer or speaker at numerous professional and academic conferences.
