Main research areas: Croatian and European civil law, law of obligations (contract and torts); Croatian and European consumer protection law

Education and work experience:

Prof. Marko Baretić graduated in law at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1995. He also graduated from the postgraduate course in international commercial law, European Union law, World Trade Organization law and international commercial arbitration law at Asser College Europe at the Asser Institute, The Hague, the Netherlands in 1998. He obtained his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, having defended the thesis titled “Pre-contractual liability for damage” (2001). He defended his doctoral dissertation at the same faculty on the topic “Civil Liability for a Defective Product” in 2006. He passed the bar exam in 2004.

After working as a lawyer in a trading company for several years, he was employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb at the Department of Civil Law as an assistant in 1997. In 2011 he was appointed associate professor at the Department of Civil Law. From 2007 to 2009, he was vice-dean for teaching and has been vice dean for international relations since 2013.

He currently teaches courses in civil law (general part of civil law, law of obligations, property law, inheritance law) and consumer protection (Croatian consumer protection law and European consumer protection law) at the Faculty of Law, both in graduate and postgraduate studies. From 2008 to 2010, he taught Property Law in Central and Eastern Europe at the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Summer School in Mlini, Croatia.

He is a member of numerous working groups for the drafting of laws in the Republic of Croatia, including the Obligations Act, the Consumer Protection Act and the Unauthorized Advertising Act. He was also a member of the working group in the negotiations for EU accession for Chapter 28: Consumer and health protection. He is currently the representative of the Republic of Croatia in Working Group III (on-line dispute resolution) of UNCITRAL.