Maja Munivrana is a full professor at the Department of Criminal Law. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb in 2003 and obtained her master’s degree in Criminal Law Sciences at the Postgraduate Study in Zagreb in 2007. Additionally, she completed her master’s studies at Yale Law School in the United States in 2008, passing six out of eight exams with honours. She earned her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 2011, and pursued further studies at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague as a visiting professional in 2013, as well as through various domestic and international seminars.
Professor Munivrana has received multiple awards and recognitions. As the top graduate student, she was honoured with the Dean’s Award in 2004. She was awarded the annual prize for the most successful young scientists and artists by the Society of University Teachers and Other Scientists for the year 2008. In 2019, she received a scholarship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, during which she served as a visiting professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, teaching a course in the Master in International Crimes, Conflict, and Criminology programme in the academic year 2019/2020.
She serves as a member of the editorial board for the leading domestic journal in the field of Criminal Law Sciences – the Croatian Annual of Criminal Law and Practice (since 2015), as well as the prestigious international journal in the field of International Criminal Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice (since 2021).
Prof. Munivrana is a member of several professional associations, including the Academy of Legal Sciences of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Association for Criminal Sciences and Practice, the Croatian Association for European Criminal Law, and the Croatian Legal Center. She is fluent in English and proficient in German and Italian.
