Assistant Professor Rutvica Rusan Novokmet graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in December 2006. She worked as a law trainee in the period between February and October 2007. In July 2009, she passed the bar exam at the Ministry of Justice. She was employed as a research assistant at the Department of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 2007. In 2017, she completed the Postgraduate doctoral study of Public and Private International Law by defending the doctoral dissertation ˝The Responsibility of Non-State Actors for Internationally Wrongful Acts˝. In 2021, she was elected as an assistant professor at the Department of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. At the Faculty of Law she teaches the following subjects: International Law (general course), Development of International Law, International Protection of Human Rights and Consular Law. She also teaches International Law at the Croatian Military Academy ˝Dr. Franjo Tuđman˝.
She has mentored more than twenty graduate theses at the Department of Public International Law, and been a member of the editorial board of the journal Zagreb Law Review as well as a member of the scientific committee of the editorial board of the student journal Lawyer. She regularly reviews scientific papers on international law topics.
Assistant Professor Rusan Novokmet regularly participates in domestic and international scientific conferences. She is the author of scientific papers on various subjects of international law published in domestic and international journals. In her research, she focuses on the following topics: international responsibility of states and international organizations, international protection of human rights, international humanitarian law, the United Nations system, jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, terrorism, peaceful dispute resolution, international criminal law.
She is a member and treasurer of the Croatian Branch of the International Law Association (Croatian International Law Association), a member of several committees of the Faculty of Law and a member of the Committee for Quality Management of University study programs for the Needs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia.
