Assistant Professor Goranka Lalić Novak graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1999. In 2009, she completed her MSC in Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, and in 2012, she obtained a PhD in the field of administrative law and public administration from the Faculty of Law.

From 2008 to 2012, she worked as a lecturer at the Polytechnic of Social Sciences in Zagreb. She worked as the director of the asylum and migration program at the Croatian Legal Center (2005 – 2008) and as the executive director and project manager at the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (2000 – 2005).

She teaches courses at the Study of Law, the Study of Social Work, the Professional undergraduate Study of Public Administration and the Professional undergraduate Tax study, as well as the Specialist postgraduate study of Public Law and Public Administration.

She actively participates in the work of the Law Clinic of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb as an academic mentor of the Group for Assistance to Asylum Seekers and Foreigners.

She is a co-author of two textbooks (Administrative Science – Public Administration in the Contemporary European Context, 2021 and The European Administrative Space, 2012) and three books (Migration Law – Croatia, 2022, Asylum: Legal and Institutional Aspects, 2016, and Asylum System Development in Croatia, 2010). She has published several scientific and professional papers and participated in numerous conferences in the country and abroad. She has participated in several scientific and professional projects.

Since 2020, she is the deputy project leader of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC) for the University of Zagreb.

She is a member of the Scientific Council for State Administration, Judiciary and the Rule of Law of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences and the Institute for Public Administration, and the president of the Croatian Legal Centre.

Her professional interests include public administration and public governance, human rights, governance of migration, asylum and integration of migrants.