Prof. Dr. Iris Goldner Lang is a Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, the head of the Department of European Public Law and the Vice Dean for International and Interinstitutional Affairs and Quality Management at the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law. She is a coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Reinforcing the Rule of Law and EU Values (EURoL)” and a partner in the Horizon project “Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe: Institutions, Interests and Policies (PRIME)” and in the interdisciplinary project granted by Volkswagen Foundation “Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR)”. She is also the holder of the UNESCO Chair on Free Movement of Persons, Migration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue. She has held visiting positions at University College London and at Harvard Law School, where she was a John Harvey Gregory Visiting Professor of Law and World Organization and a Fulbright Visiting Researcher. She did her LL.M. at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is the president of the Croatian Society for European Law (FIDE affiliate); a member of the Odysseus Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe; Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law (ERA) and an ERA Forum Advisory board member. Goldner Lang was the Editor-In-Chief of the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy and she is now a member of its Editorial Board and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Foreign Affairs Review.
She has published her research widely in the form of books, book chapters and articles in international peer reviewed journals, e.g. European Constitutional Law Review, American Journal of International Law, Journal of Human Rights, European Journal of Migration and Law and European Journal of Risk Regulation. She is a co-editor of five books, the most recent being The Changing European Union: A Critical View on the Role of Law and the Courts (Hart Publishing, 2022). She is also (co-)editor of a Special Issue on “Migration in the Time of COVID-19: Comparative Law and Policy Responses” in the journal Frontiers (co-editor with J. Ramji-Nogales), a Special Section on “Schengen and European Borders” in the journal European Papers (2024), a Special Collection of blogpost on the Odysseus blog on the “EU Asylum and Migration Legislation after the Pact” (2024). She is also a convenor of a Special Section on “Migration and the Rule of Law” in the European Constitutional Law Review (2021) and the author of a monograph From Association to Accession: How Free is the Free Movement of Persons in the EU (Eleven International Publishing, 2011).
Contact: igoldner@pravo.hr and irisgoldnerlang@gmail.com, University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
