Leon Žganec-Brajša was born in 1995 in Zagreb. He finished primary school, primary music school and gymnasium in Varaždin. He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb with the degree summa cum laude. Moreover, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the same University. During his studies, he was awarded two Rector’s awards (for a paper titled “Passage through straits using as an example Russian-Ukrainian relations regarding the Sea of Azov” and participation in a project), Dean’s Award (for a paper titled “Advanced Directives and Parental Care”). He was also awarded an Award for the excellence in studies on multiple occasions during law studies. The ”Zlatko Crnić” Foundation and the University of Zagreb both provided scholarships for him during his studies.
From 2021, he is employed as a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Public International Law. He is enrolled in PhD programme in public and private international law and in the joint PhD programme “Human Rights, Society and Multi-Level Governance”. He spent one semester at the University of Padua, Italian Republic. Moreover, he has conducted short term stays abroad.
Until now, he has published a few papers in scientific journals and presented a few conference papers. Occasionally, he publishes shorter pieces and articles on international law topics.
He is interested in topics of general international law and especially those of international legal personality of states, relation between international law and climate change, human rights, history of international law.
He is also involved in theatre criticism and publishes regularly in that regard in Croatian printed and electronic media.
Apart form Croatian (mother tongue), he is using English, French, German, Italian, Slovenian at various levels of proficiency.
