Associate Professor Marta Dragičević Prtenjača was born on 13 December 1980 in Zagreb. She graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. In 2004, she enrolled in the postgraduate study of criminal law at the same faculty. She passed all exams with excellent results and obtained her PhD in 2014, having defended the dissertation titled “Criminal Law Aspects of Passive Bribery in the Croatian Legal System”. She was a trainee lawyer from 2005 to 2007. Between 2007 and 2009 she was a researcher on the project “Criminal Prevention of Corruption and Organized Crime”. From 2009 to 2014 she was an assistant at the Department of Criminal Law at the faculty, and a senior assistant from 2014 to 2016. In 2016 she was appointed assistant professor at Department of Criminal Law and in April 2021 associate professor.

She is a member of several national and international associations: the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, the Association of University Teachers, the Croatian Association of Criminal Sciences and Practice, as well as the European Society of Criminology. She was a substitute member of the Commission for Socially Responsible Business and the Fight Against Corruption ICC – Croatia (International Chamber of Commerce – Croatia) from 2016 to 2019. She participated in the work of the Commission for Corporate Social Responsibility and the Fight Against Corruption of the ICC at the ICC headquarters in Paris on several occasions (11-14 November 2015 and 16-17 March 2016). As a result, she was appointed to the working group for the preparation of the ICC Guidelines on Conflicts of Interests in the Private Sector (ICC-Guidance on Conflicts of Interests).

She participated in the drafting of several laws and their amendments. She participated as an external collaborator of the working group for the drafting of the Criminal Code (Official Gazette 125/11), and in 2018 she was a member of the working group for drafting the Amendments to the Criminal Code (Official Gazette 118/18). She participated as a member of the working group in the drafting of the Act on the Legal Consequences of Conviction, Criminal Records and Rehabilitation (Official Gazette 143/12).

She participated as a researcher in scientific and international projects. She was a researcher (research assistant) on the project “Criminal Prevention of Corruption and Organized Crime” led by Prof. Davor Derenčinović;

  • team member on the IPA-2008 project “Improving the Capacity of the University System to Create a Framework for Preventing Discrimination and Corruption aimed at Improving Academic Integrity” (2012-2013);
  • researcher on the project “Multidisciplinary Research Cluster on Crime in Transition -Trafficking in Human Beings, Corruption and Economic Crime”, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), led by Prof. Davor Derenčinović;
  • researcher on the scientific project “Economic and industrial espionage in Germany and Europe” (WISKOS”) from 2015 to 2017, which was carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, and approved and funded by the German Government;
  • researcher at the university scientific and development project “Research Network of Transitional Justice” (2019/2020), financed by the University of Zagreb, led by Assoc. Prof. Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička.

Today, she is a researcher on the scientific project “Innocence Project in Croatia” (CroINOP), led by Prof. Davor Derenčinović, financed by the HRZZ, and on the university scientific and development project “Criminal Law in States of Emergency”, led by Assoc. Prof. Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička.

She has received training in the country and abroad, among other things, as a participant or attendee of international courses or counseling.

She teaches the courses Criminal Law (lectures, seminars and exercises), Juvenile Criminal Law and Misdemeanour Law in the integrated undergraduate and graduate university study, as well as other courses taught by the Department of Criminal Law if the need arises.

In the post-graduate specialist study in criminal law conducted at the faculty, she teaches the courses Criminal Law (general part), Criminal Law (special part) and Misdemeanour Law, and in the post-graduate doctoral study of law – criminal law module, the courses Criminal Law (general part), Criminal Law (special part), Young Persons in Criminal Law and Misdemeanour Law.

She has mentored about 50 diploma theses and one doctoral dissertation.

She has presented papers at numerous domestic and international scientific and professional conferences in Croatia and abroad (see CRORIS).

She was a member of the Expert Committee of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in the selection process for the scientific rank of scientific associate in the scientific area of social sciences, scientific field of law, scientific branch of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology and victimology (class: 640-01/16-22/ 8, reg. no.:251-55-16-19).

She was also a member of the Council for Dealing with the Consequences of Undemocratic Regimes of the Government of the Republic of Croatia from 2017 to 2018.

She was the executive editor of the Yearbook of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences for four years (2015-2018). She continues to serve as a member of the editorial board. She is co-editor, together with Prof. Ksenija Turković and Associate Professor Maja Munivrana Vajda, of the publication „Criminal law: synergy of theory and practice, Liber Amicorum Petar Novoselec”, (ed.), Marta Dragičević Prtenjača, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 2019.

She has passed the bar exam and has published a number of (about 29) scientific papers, independently and in co-authorship. She is fluent in English and speaks German and French.

She is registered in the register of scientists (ID number 300321).