Dora Pavković was born in Zagreb in 1998. She finished primary school and high school education in Jastrebarsko. She graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in May 2021. During her studies, she received two Dean’s awards for socially useful work in the academic and wider community, the award for success in studies and she is an alumna of the scholarship “Best of South-East” which granted her the opportunity to study at the University of Graz for two semesters and do an internship at Steiermärkische Sparkasse bank. From October 2021 she has been employed as a research assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. Since June 2022 she has been enrolled in doctoral studies in legal sciences. She is writing her doctoral thesis on the question of constitutional identity in the European Union Member States, her mentor is full professor with tenure Biljana Kostadinov.

She has held presentations at several scientific conferences, among others at the international scientific conference “30 Years Since the Adoption of the Republic of Macedonia’s Constitution” in December 2021 and the conference “Human Rights and the Questions of Identity” in December 2022. She also passively participated in many scientific conferences, among others in the international scientific conference “Two decades of the Constitutional Act on The Rights of National Minorities” in Zagreb, in December 2022, and in XX Jean Monnet Seminar “The Challenges of Solidarity Resurfacing in the EU” in Dubrovnik, in April 2023.

She published a paper under the title “Practical approach of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia to the Principle of Proportionality in the Assessment of Anti-epidemic Measures” in the edited book by Miloš et al (eds.), Human Rights and the Questions of Identity, Faculty of Law in Rijeka, Zagreb – Rijeka, 2022.

She is a secretary and a member of the board of directors of the Croatian Association for Constitutional Law (May 2023. – present) and a member of the Croatian-Canadian Academic Society as well as Central European Association for Canadian Studies.

She speaks English and German.