Professor Aleksandra Maganić was born on 3 January 1967 in Zagreb. She completed her primary and secondary education in Osijek.
In 1985, she enrolled at the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, graduating in 1989. During her studies, she received the Rector’s Award for academic excellence in both 1987 and 1988. She graduated with an overall grade point average of 4.86.
In 1990, she was appointed Teaching Assistant at the Department of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Osijek. In the same year, she enrolled in the postgraduate programme Business Law and Commercial Transactions at the same Faculty. From 1990 to 1994, she worked at the Department of Administrative Science.
In 1995, she commenced her professional training as a judicial trainee at the Osijek County Court and passed the bar examination in 1997.
In 1998, she returned to the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, where she was appointed Teaching Assistant at the Department of Civil Law, and from 2002 at the Department of Civil Procedure.
After completing postgraduate studies in civil law sciences at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, she defended her master’s thesis in 2005, entitled The Institution of the Rechtspfleger in German Law and the Introduction of a Corresponding Office in the Republic of Croatia. In 2008, she was awarded a PhD by the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, for her doctoral dissertation entitled General Institutions of Non-contentious Procedural Law (A Comparative Analysis of Croatian, German and Austrian Non-contentious Procedural Law). Both theses were supervised by Professor Mihajlo Dika.
Professor Maganić was appointed assistant professor at the Department of Civil Procedure, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, in 2010. She was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and to full professor in 2021.
At the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, she teaches Civil Procedure (lectures, seminars, practical classes, consultations, and examinations). She also serves as a co-course holder in the subjects of the civil law module Non-Contentious and Enforcement Law and Notarial Law, the commercial law module Insolvency Law, and the elective course Organisation of the Judiciary. Professor Maganić teaches on the postgraduate specialist programmes in Civil and Family Law Sciences and on the postgraduate programmes in Company and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. She also supervises several doctoral candidates at the same Faculty. In addition to her appointment at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, she teaches on the postgraduate specialist programme in Medical Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Split.
Professor Maganić was a member of the Ministry of Justice working group that drafted the Act on Amendments to the Civil Procedure Act (2013, Official Gazette No. 25/13), a member of the Ministry of Social Policy and Youth working group responsible for drafting the Family Law Act (2014, Official Gazette No. 75/14), and a member of the Ministry of Justice working group responsible for drafting the Non-Contentious Procedure Act (Official Gazette No. 59/23). She actively cooperates with the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and the European Union of Rechtspflegers (EUR).
During her doctoral studies, she was a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Following the completion of her PhD, she has undertaken several research visits to the Institute, most recently in July 2024.
Professor Maganić has co-organised and lectured at numerous academic conferences held at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Since December 2017, she has served as secretary of the Scientific Council for Public Administration, the Judiciary and the Rule of Law of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
She has participated in numerous national and international research and professional projects, conferences, seminars, and workshops. She has delivered papers at close to a hundred national and international academic and professional conferences and has acted as organiser or co-organiser of several international academic conferences. She is involved as an author of training materials and as a lecturer in the activities of the Judicial Academy, the Croatian Bar Association, and the Croatian Chamber of Notaries Public.
Professor Maganić is listed as an arbitrator in both domestic arbitration proceedings and proceedings with an international element before the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy. She has served as an arbitrator in a number of arbitration cases and has participated as a legal expert in international arbitration proceedings before ICSID.
Since October 2013, she has been a member of the international editorial board of the journal Societas et Iurisprudentia (Faculty of Law, University of Trnava), and since 2019 a member of the international editorial board of the journal Revija Kopaoničke škole prirodnoga prava.
Professor Maganić is a member of the European Law Institute and is fluent in German and English.
