Ivan Milotić is a full professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb.
He received his education at the Pazin College – a classical grammar school. In 2006, he graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb summa cum laude as the best student. In 2012, he received his doctoral degree at the post-graduate study programme in Civil Law and Family Law Science.
He is the President of the Committee for Statutory Matters at the University of Zagreb. He is a member of multiple university bodies and committees. He is a former member of the Ethics Council of the University of Zagreb, external (expert) member of the Legislation Committee and the Judiciary Committee of the Croatian Parliament. He is legal adviser of the Legal Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), and the head of the Institute for Roman Law and Legal History of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb.
In 2023, he was awarded the Special Recognition by the Rector of the University of Zagreb for his accomplishments in the field of university law, legislative drafting and legal acts.
He received the Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb in the academic year 2003/04. He is also a laureate of the Annual Award for Young Scientists and Artists of the Association of University Teachers and Other Scientists in Zagreb (2009) as well as of the Award of the Croatian Canon Society for his scientific contribution to the study of the relationship between the Church and the State and canon law (2015). The book “Venetian-Austrian border in Istria / Il confine veneto-austriaco in Istria”, which he co-authored, received the Croatian Museum Society Award for 2017 for the most successful scientific research project, which resulted in the publication of the book.
He led the scientific project of the drafting of the legal, historical, ampelographic and oenological argumentation of the Croatian position in the controversy and dispute over teran as the name for the wine and grape variety (2016-2017).
In 2021, the Roman Pontiff Francis conferred him with the Order of St. Gregory the Great and the associated knighthood (a state award of the Holy See) for his legal service toward the Holy See, promotion of the canon law science in the Republic of Croatia as well as the revitalisation of the course at the Faculty of Law in Croatia on the intertwining of the canon law and civil law.
He is the editor-in-chief of the magazine titled “Law and taxes“ („Pravo i porezi”), a permanent contributor to the magazine titled “Accounting, Audit and Finance” („Računovodstvo, revizija i financije“), and the editor of the legal publications of RRiF. He is the editor of the Histria Christiana historico-iuridica series.
He has authored numerous scientific and professional articles and books on civil, commercial and administrative law as well as legislative drafting and language in law. He is the author of approximately 80 scientific papers and numerous books. He is the editor of more than 20 books and collections of papers. He has reviewed around a hundred papers and books.
He has prepared translations (from Latin, Ancient Greek and Istro-Venetian) of and commentaries on the Edict of Milan (313), Statute of Motovun (12th century – 1507), Capitulary Book of Momiano (1521), Sententia Tridentina (1535) and Statute of Vrsar (1609-1768).
He has led more than a dozen multiannual scientific research projects.
