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Komunikacijska kompetencija pravnih stručnjaka u višejezičnom okruženju – KOMPRAS
Naziv projekta
Komunikacijska kompetencija pravnih stručnjaka u višejezičnom okruženju
Akronim
KOMPRAS
Trajanje projekta
48 mjeseci
Voditeljica projekta
doc. dr. sc. Snježana Husinec
Članice/članovi istraživačkog tima
doc. dr. sc Irena Horvatić Bilić
Katedra za strane jezike, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
dr. sc. Agnes Milovan Solter
Katedra za strane jezike, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
izv prof. dr. sc. Marta Dragičević Prtenjača,
Katedra za kazneno pravo, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
dr. sc. Juraj Brozović,
Katedra za građansko procesno pravo, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
prof. dr. sc. Jan Engberg,
School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Danska
dr. sc. Oliver Winkler,
Zürcher Schule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Švicarska
prof. dr. sc Stanislaw Gozdz Roskowski,
Filološki fakultet, Sveučilište u Lodzu, Poljska
Pavla Ribić
Tomislava Barišić
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE KOMPRAS PROJECT
Sažetak projekta
Dosadašnja istraživanja na Katedri za strane jezike (Husinec 2025 i 2010; Horvatić-Bilić/Husinec, 2023, 2021), koja su uključivala ograničen broj pravnika i vježbenike, pokazala su da se oni redovito susreću s komunikacijskim izazovima u višejezičnom i medukulturnom kontekstu. Ti se izazovi ne odnose primarno na njihovu razinu ovladanosti određenim stranim jezikom, najčešće engleskim i njemačkim jezikom, već na specifična znanja jezika struke, medukulturne aspekte komunikacije i komparativno-pravne elemente koji mogu utjecati na učinkovitu komunikaciju. Stoga je planirano istraživanje usmjereno na ispitivanje potreba imenovane ciljne skupine u navedena tri segmenta. Kako izuzetno intenzivne promjene u vidu globalizacije, internacionalizacije i digitalizacije utječu na sve sfere društva i rada, potrebno je predvidjeti sadašnji, ali i budući razvoj te svakako ispitati segment komunikacije u digitalnom okruženju, uključujući i ulogu umjetne inteligencije, koja zahtijeva osvještavanje njezinih specifičnosti u profesionalnom okruženju i dodatne vještine. Kombinacijom teorijskog i empirijskog istraživanja te kvantitativne i kvalitativne metode analize prikupljenih podataka planira se razraditi model komunikacijske kompetencije u pravnoj struci (M-KOMPRAS) koji bi objedinio elemente primijenjene lingvistike i komparativnog pravnih metoda. Dobiveni rezultat istraživanja i spomenuti model bit će podloga za pružanje potpore sustavu kroz ponudu programa cjeloživotnog obrazovanja, izradu prijedloga za modernizaciju kurikuluma nastave jezika pravne struke, diseminaciju predloženog modela u područjima koja uključuju jezik struke (nefilološki i filološki fakulteti, strukovna udruženja, gospodarstvo).
Research Team Members
Assistant Professor Snježana Husinec
Assistant Professor Snježana Husinec, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Principal investigator
Snježana Husinec is an assistant professor at the Department of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. She conducts comparative legal research into the phraseological, terminological, and cognitive aspects of legal discourse, as well as topics in historical sociolinguistics. Her extensive research into the historical development of Croatian legal terminology was published in the monograph „From ‘punomoćje’ to ‘punomoć’, from ‘vlastitost’ to ‘vlasništvo’. The Legal Terminology of the Croatian Judiciary from 1848 to 1918.)“
In her most recent research, she has focused on the specific features and challenges of multilingual international communication. She has designed several lifelong learning programs for legal professionals and translators, for which she received an award (PFZ 2022). She teaches comparative legal linguistics and English and German for legal purposes, as well as the elective course International Business Communication for Lawyers, which she developed on the basis of her own research. She has taught courses in international legal communication at foreign universities (Mexico; Sweden).
She is the author of numerous scholarly papers, two textbooks for German for specific purposes Deutsch für Sozialarbeiter and Deutsch für Steuerbeamte, and a co-author of the textbook English for the Legal Profession.
Assistant Professor Irena Horvatić Bilić
Assistant Professor Irena Horvatić Bilić, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Project team member
Irena Horvatić Bilić is employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, at the Department of Foreign Languages. She teaches different courses of English and German language for specific purposes within the Study of Law and the Study of Public Administration. Her research interests include questions of applied linguistics with the focus on features of languages for specific purposes and of communication competence of legal experts. She also works in the field of multilingualism and multilingual competence, which was the topic of her PhD thesis. Her research includes tertiary language didactics as well as factors of language and educational policies. She has authored numerous scientific and professional papers, reviews, as well as a textbooks series for the German language in secondary schools, entitled zweite.sprache@DEUTSCH.de. She is also a co-author of the textbook English for the Legal Profession. As a long-time president of the Croatian Association of Teachers and Professors of German, she advocates for promoting multilingualism among Croatian pupils and students, including proficiency in the German language. She actively collaborates with the International Association of Teachers of German (IDV) and the International Federation of Language Teacher Associations (FIPLV).
Agnes Milovan-Solter, PhD
Agnes Milovan-Solter, PhD, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Project team member
Agnes Milovan-Solter is a lecturer in English for legal purposes at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. She holds a degree in English and German philology and literature from the University of Zagreb (2002) and a master’s degree in intercultural communication and European studies from the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda (2005). In 2025, she earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Zadar, with a doctoral dissertation titled An analysis of verb – noun collocations in the English language of contract law. Her work focuses on legal linguistics and language for specific purposes (LSP), with a particular interest in corpus-based methodologies to examine phraseological patterns, collocations, and communicative practices in legal English. Her professional experience further encompasses her work at the Croatian Bar Association, where she served as a translator, executive editor of the official magazine Odvjetnik, and expert associate for education, thereby acquiring substantial experience in legal language, legal translation, editorial practice and professional training. She is currently engaged in research on the communicative competence of legal practitioners in international settings.
Associate Professor Marta Dragičević Prtenjača
Associate Professor Marta Dragičević Prtenjača, Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Project team member
Marta Dragičević Prtenjača is an Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. She holds a PhD in Criminal Law and has more than fifteen years of academic, research, and legislative experience in criminal law, anti-corruption, human rights. She is the course leader for Comparative (Substantive) Criminal Law, where she introduces students to different criminal law systems and comparative legal reasoning. Her teaching and research focus primarily on substantive criminal law, while incorporating comparative perspectives.
Throughout her career, she has participated in numerous national and international research projects and has collaborated with institutions such as the Max Planck Institute and the Croatian Science Foundation. She has also been involved in legislative reform processes, including amendments to the Croatian Criminal Code, and has served as a legal expert in international anti-corruption and OECD-related processes.
Together with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Snježana Husinec, she developed and delivered an award-winning lifelong learning course on English and Croatian substantive criminal law, focusing on legal terminology and communication in multilingual legal contexts.
Dr. sc. Juraj Brozović
Dr. sc. Juraj Brozović
Dr. sc. Juraj Brozović zaposlen je kao viši asistent na Katedri za građansko procesno pravo Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. U svom znanstvenom i nastavnom radu usmjeren je na građansko procesno pravo, uz poseban interes za komparativnopravne aspekte i empirijsku komponentu funkcioniranja pravosudnih sustava. Sudjelovao je u više istraživačkih projekata iz područja komparativnog prava te je uključen u međunarodne aktivnosti povezane s razvojem pravne struke i obrazovanja.
U radu sa studentima naglasak stavlja na razvoj praktičnih vještina i primjenu znanja u stvarnim pravnim situacijama. Od njezinih početaka aktivno sudjeluje u radu Pravne klinike Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu. Mentor je zagrebačkih studenata na Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (ICCC). Od 2025. godine član je Odbora Europske mreže za kliničko pravno obrazovanje (ENCLE), gdje doprinosi razvoju kliničkog pravnog obrazovanja na europskoj razini.
Professor Jan Engberg
Professor Jan Engberg, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project team member
Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at Aarhus University, Dr. honoris causa at Vaasa University, Finland, and Knight of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog. His main research interests are the study of cognitive aspects of specialized discourse and the relation between specialized knowledge and text formulation. Much of his research is focused upon communication, translation and meaning in the field of law. He has published widely in the field and co-edited a number of books and special issues of international journals. His latest major publication is the first volume of the Handbook on Specialized Communication, co-edited with Thorsten Roelcke and Ruth Breeze and published by de Gruyter Brill. Finally, he functions as co-editor of the international journals Fachsprache – Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication and Hermes – Journal of Language and Communication for Business.
Dr. Oliver Winkler
Dr. Oliver Winkler, School of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Languge Competence, Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland
Project team member
Oliver Winkler is a senior lecturer and co-director of the BA in Language and Integration at the ZHAW Institute of Language Competence. His expertise lies in applied conversation analysis, coaching, and communication training for professional and educational contexts. In collaboration with the ZHAW Institute of Psychology, he developed a manual based on conversation analysis used in coach education at the university.
Furthermore, he specializes in developing competence-based blended learning concepts and training programs that translate linguistic research into professional practice. During a curriculum revision at the ZHAW School of Engineering, he conducted needs analyses of communicative competences in the field and led a team in developing a tailored communication curriculum for engineering students.
As director and co-developer of the CAS in Conversation Management (Professional Communication), he co-teaches with a team of experts to provide advanced training for professionals across the social, technical, business, and healthcare sectors.
Professor Stanisław Gozdz-Roszkowski
Professor Stanisław Gozdz-Roszkowski, Department of Specialised Languages and Intercultural Communication, University of Lodz, Poland
External collaborator
Stanisław Gozdz-Roszkowski is Professor and Head of the Department of Specialised Languages and Intercultural Communication, University of Lodz (Poland). His research focuses on the relationship between language, argumentation and rhetoric. He has published widely in the area of legal argumentation, legal phraseology, corpus linguistics and communicating evaluative meanings in judicial opinions. He is now involved in a project which investigates the rhetoric of populism to identify the linguistic representation of populist ideas of law and justice across languages, communities, and genres.
His most recent book publications include In the Minds of Judges. Argumentative Discourse at the Intersection of Law and Language, De Gruyter 2025; Language and Legal Judgments Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse Routledge 2024 and Law, Language and the Courtroom. Legal Linguistics and the Discourse of Judges Routledge 2022.
Pavla Ribić
Pavla Ribić, Faculty of law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Student assistant
Pavla Ribić is a fourth-year student in the integrated undergraduate and graduate Law program at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. She distinguished herself as a student assistant at the Department of General Legal History and the Department of Croatian Legal History (2023/2024), and has been serving as a student assistant at the Department of Foreign Languages since 2023. In 2024, she participated in the Summer School of Croatian Legal History in Budapest. She is a recipient of the City of Ivanec Excellence Scholarship (2024/2025) and a scholarship awarded by the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (2025). In the academic year 2025/2026, she ranked among the top 3% of students in her program. Her academic path reflects excellence, dedication, and continuous professional growth.
Tomislava Barisic
Tomislava Barisic, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Hrvatska
Student assistant
Tomislava Barišić is a full-time third-year student in the integrated undergraduate and graduate study of Law at the University of Zagreb. She is a student assistant at the Department of Foreign Languages and is involved in the activities of the Department of European Public Law.
She has a strong interest in international law and international legal relations. In the academic year 2025/2026, she ranked among the top 3% of students at the Faculty, which reflects her ambition and dedication to academic work.
She is fluent in English and German and is currently learning French.
She enjoys traveling, exploring different cultures, and broadening her perspectives through new experiences. She also has a strong interest in arts and has completed primary music school, specializing in piano.
