Full professor with tenure Davorin Lapaš was born in Zagreb in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1995 and earned his postgraduate master’s degree in international public and private law at the same faculty in 1999. Since 1998 he has been working at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb at the Department of International Law. In 2003, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Law in the field of international law at the same faculty. In 2008 he was elected to the position of associate professor at the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, and in 2012 he was appointed full professor at the same department.
He studied at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1997, at the Asser Institute for Private and Public International Law in The Hague in 1998, at Aix-en-Provence (1999), he also attended the United Nations International Law Commission Seminar in Geneva in 2000, at the Institute of Public International Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki in 2000, and at the Max-Planck Institute for International Public and Comparative Law in Heidelberg in 2002.
He teaches International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law, Development of International Law, and Law of International Organisations. He teaches within the Postgraduate Doctoral Study programme at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, the Postgraduate Specialist Study programme “Foreign Policy and Diplomacy” and the Doctoral Study “International Relations” at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. He also teaches at the Postgraduate Specialist Study “Diplomacy” and at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.
He participates as a researcher in projects of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia (researcher identification number 219494).
He is one of the Croatian members of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. In 2014, he was a co-representative of the Republic of Croatia before the International Tribunal in the dispute between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia over the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
