Main research areas: civil law, copyright law, personal rights, European private law

 

Education and work experience:

Professor Igor Gliha graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1985. He obtained his master’s degree in the postgraduate study of private international law in 1990 with the thesis titled „Governing law for tortious liability for damage incurred in sports, with a particular emphasis on skiing“ and defended his doctoral dissertation titled „Legal nature of publisher’s rights“ in 1996. He passed the bar exam in 1988. He was also granted a fellowship for intellectual property rights, competition and tax law at the Max Planck Institute, Munich in 1988, 1998 and 2004.

Professor Gliha started his professional career in 1986 as a legal trainee. He joined the Department of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1987, obtaining full professorship in 2005. From 1992 to 1993 he was appointed adviser with the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia to the United States. From 1997 to 1999 he was vice-dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He is also an arbiter in proceedings before the Permanent Arbitration Court of the Croatian Chamber of Economy concerning the „.hr“ domains. He also headed the working group in the negotiations with the EU for the chapter on intellectual property.

He was a member of the working groups for the drafting of the Act on Copyright and other Related Rights, Act on Ownership and Other Property Rights and the Inheritance Act. He is the president of the Croatian Copyright Association (HDAP – ALAI).

He is a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences. He is a laureate of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences award for his special and lasting contributions to the Republic of Croatia in social sciences for his monograph Property Law (co-authored with Prof. Nikola Gavella, Prof. Tatjana Josipović, Prof. Vlado Belaj and Prof. Zlatan Stipković).

Apart from teaching courses Civil Law I and II, Copyright Law and Personal Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, he also teaches a course in Intellectual Property Law at Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, as part of the course in Commercial Law and Southeastern Europe, LLM in law of southeastern Europe and European integration. He also teaches courses at the postgraduate study of biomedicine and medical services (Introduction to Intellectual Property Law) and the graduate study (Bioethics) at the University of Zagreb’s School of Medicine.