Dalibor Čepulo is a full professor with tenure. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, where he also received his scientific master’s degree in the post-graduate study in administrative and political sciences. He received his doctorate degree at the University of Zagreb with a dissertation on the modernisation of the Croatian legal system and organisation of power in the reform period 1873-1880. Before joining the Faculty of Law, he worked in legal practice in a lawyer’s office and in the corporate sector, and after that as a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Zagreb. He has been working at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb since 1990 teaching courses in the field of legal history and legal culture within graduate studies, postgraduate specialist and doctoral studies. He also taught at the University of Osijek (1999-2002) and was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna (2018/2019). His professional education includes one-month education at the Faculté internationale de droit comparé in Strassbourg (1987) and one month research scholarship at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt (2005).

He has delivered invited lectures or Erasmus lectures at the law faculties of the Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE, Budapest), the Complutense University (Madrid), the University of Córdoba, Harvard University, the University of Helsinki and the University of Iceland (Reykjavik). Together with Prof. Dr. Gerald Kohl, he organises and leads “The Dialogues”, annual scientific colloquia of the Department for Constitutional and Legal History of the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna and the Department of Croatian History of Law and State. He also initiated regular annual professors’ and student’s cooperation of his Department with the Department of Hungarian Legal History of the Faculty of Law, Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest). He has published five books in Croatia and one abroad, as well as a large number of research papers in Croatian and international editions. He was the editor for legal history in the Legal Lexicon and collaborator in other editions of the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb as well as the author of individual contributions to Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte (Erich Schimdt Verlag). He was the main researcher or collaborator in several international and Croatian research projects and participated in a large number of international and domestic scientific conferences. Apart from research visits to various Croatian as well as Budapest archives and libraries he also completed research stays in the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) and the School for Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London). He is member of the international advisory boards of the Central European Association for Comparative Law, Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español and Herald of Legal History. He was a member of the Croatian Commission for UNESCO (2004-2012) and the chairman of the Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities in two terms of office. He was a vice-dean of the Faculty of Law (2012-2014), the head of the Institute for Legal History and Roman Law (2008-2013) and he has been the head of the Department of Croatian History of Law and State since 2004.