Associate Professor Ana Horvat Vuković was born in 1984 in Rijeka, Croatia. She attended her senior year of high school in Florida, USA. During the course of her law studies, she received the Dean’s Award for Best Student Paper, on the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause’s impact on federalist theory. She graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in July 2007 (GPA corresponding to a summa cum laude degree), and joined the Department of Constitutional Law in October 2007. From 2009-2017, she also worked as a certified court interpreter for the English language.
She defended her doctoral dissertation on the “Regulation of Positive Discrimination, with a Special Emphasis on the Case-Law of India” in July 2013. She is the (co)author of three books, coeditor of two international scientific symposia collections of papers, coauthor of a published English translation of the Croatian Constitution, and the author of a number of scientific papers in Croatian and international publications. With Department colleagues Kostadinov, Podolnjak, Gardašević and Pavković, she is the co-recipient of the Jadranko Crnić, S.J.D. Foundation‘s award for a published book of significance for the advancement of the legal profession (2024).
Since October 2025, she has been the Course Director for the Postgraduate University Specialist Program in Public Law and Public Administration at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law (deputy director, 2024-2025). She is the Editorial Board member of the Constitutional Studies journal co-published by the International Association for Constitutional Law (February 2025-present).
She teaches courses at the levels of integrated study of Law (Constitutional Law, Seminar in Constitutional Law, and Women’s Rights (both in Croatian and English); the bachelor level (Basics of Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law of the Republic of Croatia) and the postgraduate level (Comparative Constitutional Law and Political Institutions I-II, Constitutional Jurisprudence – protection of constitutionality and legality in Croatia and worldwide, Comparative Constitutional Law of EU Member States, Introduction to Constitutional Casuistry and others), where she is also a doctoral thesis advisor.
She is a member of the ICONs (International Society of Public Law), Croatian Association for Constitutional Law (Governing Board member, 2025-2027), and a co-founding member of the Faculty’s student-staff Alliance for the protection of LGBTIQA+ rights “ZA-Pravo” (Governing Board member, 2020-2022).
She is a member of the Council for Human Rights of the Ombudswoman of the Republic of Croatia (December 2022-present), and president of the Administrative Board of the City of Zagreb’s Shelter for victims of domestic abuse (2023-). She also volunteers as the academic mentor for the Antidiscrimination Unit of the Free Legal Aid Clinic at the Faculty of Law (2019-present).
In February 2021, she was appointed as a member of the working group tasked with drafting the Faculty’s first-generation Code on Students’ Protection From Sexual Harassment and Other Forms of Gender Discrimination (February 2022).
Her main area of interest is antidiscrimination law, particularly avenues of achieving and safeguarding substantive equality of political minorities like women (equal political citizenship, SRRs, power-sharing in the decision-making fora), the LGBTIQA+ community (rainbow families’ constitutional rights), and racial/ethnic minorities (doctoral dissertation on the Indian equality law; intersectional discrimination of Roma women and girls). The issues of equal citizenship, personal autonomy, self-determination and dignity center in her research.
She is a mother of two ever-inspiring daughters.
