Svan Relac graduated from the Zagreb University Faculty of Law in 2020 with the thesis titled “Kelsen’s Doctrine of Imputation”. He has been employed at the Department of Theory of Law since 2021 as an assistant. At the Department, he assists with all forms of teaching and exams.
He completed a Master’s program in legal theory, “Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy,” organized by the University of Genoa and the University of Girona, with a thesis titled “The Concept of Retroactivity”.
He is a PhD candidate in legal theory at the Tarello Institute (University of Genoa, Italy). His doctoral dissertation focuses on methods for resolving normative conflicts.
Books:
S. Relac, Unatražno djelovanje normi, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2024.
Papers:
S. Relac, “Kelsen’s Doctrine of Imputation.” Pravnik, vol. 55, no. 107, 2021, pp. 168-200. https://hrcak.srce.hr/264061.
L. Burazin i S. Relac, “Shvaćanje pravne znanosti u suvremenoj udžbeničkoj literaturi iz pozitivnopravnih predmeta na Pravnom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu.” Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, vol. 72, br. 6, 2022, str. 1357-1399. https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.72.6.02.
L. Burazin i S. Relac. “Primjena Ustava od strane (hrvatskih) redovnih sudova.” Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, vol. 73, br. 5, 2023, str. 841-879. https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.73.5.02.
S. Relac, “Identifying and resolving uninormative conflicts”, Revus [Online], 54 | 2024, Online since 17 April 2025, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/revus/10951; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/13rpn
Other:
- Member of the Organizing Committee for the international conference “Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law” (Zagreb, 2023 [1st edition], 2024 [2nd edition])
- Assistant to the Editorial Board of the journal Revus
- Member of the Zagreb Legal Theory Group
- Associate of the Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (Croatian section of IVR)
