Ivan Milotić (b. 1982) attended the Pazin College – a classical grammar school, after which he enrolled in and graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 2006 as the best student of his generation. He obtained his PhD in the postgraduate study of Civil and Family Law in 2012 from the same faculty.

He is the president of the Committee for issues of Statute of the University of Zagreb, to which he was elected for his excellence in legislative drafting. He is a member of the Ethics Council of the University of Zagreb. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee of the Croatian Parliament. He was a member of the Legislation Committee of the Croatian Parliament between 2017 and 2020. He is a member of the Legal Commission of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union). He is the co-chairman of the Joint Commission of the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian Bishops’ Conference for legal issues.

He is the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Law and taxes“ („Pravo i porezi”), where he runs the permanent sections “New laws” and “Language in law”. He is a permanent contributor to the magazine “Accounting, Audit and Finance” („Računovodstvo, revizija i financije“) and editor of the law-related publications of RRiF. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine „Roads and bridges“ (“Ceste i mostovi”). He is the editor of the series “Histria Christiana historico-iuridica”. He is the initiator and one of the leaders of the international legal (civil and canonical) and historical scientific conference “Motovun colloquium” and the international scientific conference on civil procedure “In memoriam Srećko Zuglia”.

He was the leader of the scientific project of legal, historical, ampelographic and oenological argumentation of the Croatian position in the controversy and dispute over the name of the wine and variety teran (2016-2017), which was successfully concluded in favour of the Republic of Croatia (and winemakers from Croatian Istria) by a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

He reintroduced the study of canon and civil law in their interaction at the faculty for the first time after 73 years in 2019.

In 2021, Pope Francis I awarded him the Order of St. Gregory the Great and the associated knight status (a state award of the Holy See).

He was awarded of the Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb in the academic year 2003/04. He is a laureate of the Annual Award for Young Scientists and Artists of the Association of University Teachers and Other Scientists in Zagreb (2009). He is the recipient 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 has authored more than a hundred scientific and professional articles and two books on civil, commercial and administrative law as well as legislative drafting and language in law. He is the author of about sixty scientific articles and several books on canon law, ecclesiastical law (ius ecclesiasticum), Roman canon law and Roman law. He is the editor of more than 20 anthologies and books. He has reviewed more than 70 scientific articles and books.

He has produced translations (from Latin, Greek and Istrian-Venetian) and commentaries of the Edict of Milan (313), the Statute of Motovun (XII century – 1507), the Capitulary of Momjan (1521), the Sententia Tridentina (1535) and the Vrsar Statute (1609 – 1768).

He has headed ten long-term scientific research projects.

With his works (books and articles), he contributed to the knowledge of the history and culture of Istria and the Church in Istria and the affirmation of protected marks of authenticity for traditional products from the area of Istria.

Since 2013, as part of the workshop “Academic Writing” for students of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, he has continuously given lectures on the topic of citing. He has held numerous lectures popularizing science.