Ivan Obadić (b. Varaždin, 1979) is an assistant professor at the Department of General History of Law and State, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He obtained his BA in history at the Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities, University of Zagreb in 2006, and completed the integrated undergraduate and graduate university study of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 2007, obtaining his LLM degree. He received his master’s degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008. He completed postgraduate studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, in 2013. He received his PhD at the European University Institute in 2017.

He worked as an assistant at the Varaždin Institute for Scientific Work of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 2008 to 2010. He has worked at the Faculty of Law since 2010. The subject of his scientific and research work are topics from the field of political corruption, legal, economic and diplomatic history related to the development of European integration, the Cold War, Southeastern Europe and the city of Varaždin. He has participated in numerous domestic and international conferences and published several articles and chapters in domestic and foreign journals and anthologies. He has organized several lectures, conferences and seminars. He participated in several Croatian and international scientific projects within the framework of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities of the University of Zagreb, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (Integration and Disintegration of the European Union: Dynamics of Europeanism and Euroscepticism), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the European University Institute (euandi project in 2014 and 2019, Integrating Diversity in the European Union (InDivEU), etc.)m and the consortium of European universities HistCom 3 (The European Commission (1986-2000) – History and Memories of an Institution) . He is the recipient of several awards and scholarships (Rector’s Award as a student of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, LSE Graduate Merit Award, scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for doctoral studies at EUI, etc.). He was trained at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz in 2020 within the Field of Excellence Dimensions of Europeanization. He is the holder of the Jean Monnet module the Development of European Integration and Institutions, which is taught at the Department of General History of Law and State of the faculty. He has been the representative of the City of Varaždin in the University Council of the University of Zagreb since June 2021, and in December 2021 he was elected president of the University Council.