Tomislav Karlović (1979) is a Professor of Roman Law at the Zagreb University Faculty of Law. He earned his PhD in Roman law in 2011 with a thesis on Fiducia cum creditore in Roman law. Since 2003 he has been employed at the Faculty of Law, first as an assistant, from 2011 as an assistant professor, from May 2017 as an associate professor, and from October 2022 as a full professor. He teaches Roman private law as the mandatory subject in the first year of the Study of Law, as well as several optional subjects in the Croatian and English language (in English: Roman Private Law, Ius Commune – Foundations of European Private Legal Systems). He also teaches legal history at the University of Dubrovnik. At the Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (Frankfurt am Main) and the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw he has attended trainee courses. He has been an invited lecturer at the Sarajevo University Faculty of Law (BiH), Faculty of Law, University of Trento (IT) and Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel (CH). He has been regularly participating with contributions in conferences of the European Forum of Young Legal Historians, the Société internationale ‘Fernand de Visscher’ pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA), and the European Society for Comparative Legal History, as well as in the inter-university seminar “Sommerseminar Antike Rechtsgeschichte” and the course “Public and Private Justice” at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik. He gave presentations at the 9th (Odense, 2016) and 10th (Royal Holloway, London 2022) Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, and the Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Cambridge, 2018).

He has participated in several scientific projects, among which was also the project „Transformation of Civil Justice under Influence of Global and Regional Integration Processes. Unity and Diversity“, no. 6988, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. He has reviewed dozens of scientific articles and several monographs, and edited several books. From 2012 to 2022 he was the executive editor, and since February 2022, the editor-in-chief of the Collected Papers of Zagreb Law Faculty (Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu; referenced in SCOPUS).

He is an author of a university handbook and numerous scientific articles and book chapters on the subjects of Roman law, medieval Roman and canon law, comparative legal history and comparative law. He contributes weekly to the professional legal journal with the column “Traditio iuridica” on the historical background and the role of regulae iuris and Roman legal terminology today.

Areas of special research interest: fiducia cum creditore and pignus in Roman law and their place today; the law of trusts; clausula rebus sic stantibus; presumptions in civil law and canon law; Roman law and the legal system of Crusader States, esp. the Kingdom of Jerusalem.