Associate Professor Zoran Burić graduated magna cum laude from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 2007. That same year, he began his academic career as a research assistant on the project “Criminal Law Aspects of Croatia’s Accession to the European Union”. Burić progressed to assistant in the Department of Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 2009, and assistant professor in 2016.
Since 2011 he has been the executive editor of the scientific journal “Zagreb Law Review”.
As a researcher, he participated in several international projects, including “Bridging the Gap: Civil Society Promoting Access to Justice for Persons with Mental Disabilities,” “EuroNeeds,” and “Pre-trial Defence Rights in Criminal Proceedings.” He was also involved in domestic projects such as “Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights against the Republic of Croatia in Criminal Matters,” “Targeted and Early Needs Assessment and Support for Victims of Crime,” and “Strengthening the Procedural Rights of Suspects and Accused Persons in Criminal Proceedings in Croatia.”
Assoc. Prof. Burić completed several months of scientific training at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, on two occasions. He earned his doctorate through a dual doctorate programme based on an agreement between the University of Zagreb and the University of Freiburg, with a doctoral thesis titled “Models of Cross-border Evidence Gathering in European Union Criminal Law.”
His primary areas of scientific interest include criminal procedure law, human rights in criminal proceedings, European Union criminal law, comparative criminal justice, victims’ rights, and the intersection of psychiatry and law.
