Maja Seršić is the Head of the International Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Republic of Croatia;   Head of Institute for Public and Private International Law (2015-2019);   Vice-Dean for International Cooperation (2019- 2021).

 

Specialization and Research Visits, inter alia, Institute Lester Pearson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, (Canada), 1986; Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, 1983 and 1984; Institute of International Public Law and International Relations, Thessaloniki, 1985; T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague, 1988;  Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law,  The Hague, 1994;  Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law,  Heidelberg, 1995,  1998;

Invited Lecturer and Speaker at postgraduate courses and international conferences, including Anacapri, Baeza, Barcelona, Geneva, Genoa, London, Ljubljana, Naples, Palermo – Agrigento, Tunis;

UN Audio Visual Library on International Law, lecture “Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and War against Terrorism”

(http://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Sersic.html);

Co-director of postgraduate course on the Law of the Sea at the Dubrovnik Inter-University Centre (1992-2001).

 

Government Representative before the ICJ and Arbitration Tribunal:

2007 – 2014   Co-Agent of the Republic of  Croatia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia);

2010 – 2014   Agent of  the Republic of Croatia before the Arbitral Tribunal in the case concerning Land and Maritime Delimitation between Croatia and Slovenia;

 

Experience in Multilateral and Bilateral Negotiations (as Government Representative):

Multilateral

UNEP/ Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP):

– participated in amending process of the Barcelona Convention and its related Protocols and the Mediterranean Action Plan (1994-1995);

–  Member of the Croatian delegation at the Meetings of the States Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its related Protocols (2002-2003);

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea:

– Member of the Croatian delegation at the Meetings of the States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1995-1998);

UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict: 

– participated in the process of  Revision of the 1954 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the adoption of the 1999 Protocol (1995-1999);

– Member of the Bureau of the 1954 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its 1999 Protocol (2010-2014).

 

Bilateral

Member of the Mixed Croatian-Slovenian Legal Experts Team for the Preparation of the Submission of the Delimitation Dispute between Republics of Croatia and Slovenia to the International Court of Justice (2007-2008);

Member of the Mixed Commission for the Preparation of Legal Proceedings for Maritime Delimitation between the Republics of Croatia and Montenegro before the International Court of Justice (2009-2011);

Member of the delegation of the Republic of Croatia in the negotiation of the delimitation of the exclusive economic zones with the Republic of Italy (2022).

 

Professional Activities and Affiliation:

Membership in International Bodies, inter alia,

-1997 – 2010 Member of the Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (ABE-LOS) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);

-1998 – 2008 Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe;

2002 – 2012 Permanent Court of Arbitration, Arbitrator under Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes relating to Natural Resources and/or Environment;

-2003 – 2006 Member of the Board of Directors of the European Law Faculty Association (ELFA); 2004–2006 Vice-president;

-2004 – 2006 member of the European Science Foundation (ESF); Standing Committee for the Social Sciences.