Assistant Professor Trpimir Mihael Šošić completed his studies of  law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1997. After his graduation, he first worked at the law office of Dragutin Sikirić, an attorney-at-law in Zagreb. He passed the State Bar Examination in 2000. He has spent research periods at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht) in Heidelberg (Germany) and at the Asser Institute (T.M.C. Asser Instituut) in The Hague (Netherlands). He has also attended courses at the Hague Academy of International Law, the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy (Greece) and the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik (Croatia), as well as undertaken a short-term visiting fellowship at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (PR China). He has been an associate member of the University of Macerata’s Interdepartmental Research Center on the Adriatic and the Mediterranean (Centro interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Adriatico e il Mediterraneo – CiRAM) (since 2021). Apart from the Faculty of Law, his teaching assignments at the University of Zagreb include courses within the interdisciplinary undergraduate study programmes “Military Engineering” and “Military Leadership and Management” for future officers of the Croatian Armed Forces and courses within the post-graduate study programmes of the Faculty of Political Science. He has given several guest lectures at universities abroad (Seoul, Macerata, Athens). He has been a member of the expert group formed by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, which prepared the legal positions of Croatia in the arbitral proceedings against the Republic of Slovenia regarding the maritime and land boundary between the two states, and, as an external expert, a member of the Croatian delegation in the Council of the European Union’s Working Party on the Law of the Sea (COMAR) (2019 – 2023). He has been a member of the Croatian Commission for the Implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (14 May 1954), including the First and Second Protocols to the Convention (since 2017), and, as a legal expert, a member of the Croatian delegation in the Coordination Committee for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage at the Skerki Bank Site (established according to the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage) (since 2020). Memberships: Croatian Society of International Law (National Branch of the International Law Association), Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences (associate member), International Law Association (individual member), Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer (AssIDMer).