Snježana Husinec is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages. She has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb since 2006, first as a lecturer, then, from 2012 to 2023, as a senior lecturer. In 2019, she was appointed to the research associate rank in the scientific area of humanities, the field of philology. In 2023, she was promoted to an assistant professor. She teaches English and German for legal purposes, German for tax professionals and social workers, English for public administration at the undergraduate level, and the elective course Comparative Legal Linguistics at the graduate level of the Study of Law. Within the lifelong learning program of the Faculty of Law, she teaches English and German to legal professionals and designs programs and runs workshops in legal linguistics and language for translators, court interpreters and lawyers.

In 1995, she was awarded a degree in English and German language and literature by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. During her studies, she spent a semester at the Institute for German Studies of the University of Vienna as a scholarship holder of the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science. In 2006, she started her Postgraduate doctoral study of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Upon defending her doctoral thesis entitled The Terminological Aspects of the Language of the Croatian Judiciary with Reference to the German Influence, she received a PhD in linguistics (2015).

Her first teaching experience was gained at the foreign language school „Class“. As a fourth-year student, she was invited to teach at the 18th Gymnasium in Zagreb. After graduation, she continued teaching English and German at the 18th Gymnasium full time. During her work at the 18th Gymnasium, she actively participated in different international education projects for young people and was a member of German Language Diploma (DSD) examining boards.

She continuously improves her teaching practice by designing new teaching materials and programs. She has authored two course books for German for specific purposes, Deutsch für Sozialarbeiter, 2011; Deutsch für Steuerbeamte, 2011, and co-authored a course book English for the Legal Profession, 2017 and 2019. She has attended various training courses and spent study periods in Germany, Austria and Great Britain.

She has given lectures on international legal communication and linguistic human rights within several international summer programs in Croatia and abroad.

Her research interests include primarily legal linguistics, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics as well as methodology and didactics of languages for specific purposes (LSP). She has presented her research at a number of conferences in Croatia and abroad and has published research papers in domestic and international publications. The results of her most extensive research have been published in a monograph: From ‘punomoćje’ to ‘punomoć’, from ‘vlastitost’ to ‘vlasništvo’. The Legal Terminology of the Croatian Judiciary from 1848 to 1918. (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 2020). She has been a member of organizing and scientific committees of several scientific conferences, has organized different popular science events, edited conference proceedings and popular science exhibition catalogues.

In 2022, she received the Best Lifelong Learning Program Award for the academic year 2021/2022 from the Faculty of Law (together with Assistant Professor Marta Dragičević Prtenjača).

She is a member of diverse professional organizations: International Language and Law Association (ILLA), Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (CALS), Croatian Philological Society (CPS), Association of LSP Teacher at Higher Education Institutions (ALSPTTHEI), Croatian German Teachers Association (KDV) and the Matrix Croatica.