Ivana Kunda

Ivana Kunda is a Full Professor and the Head of the International and European Private Law Department at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka and a Vice-Dean for Research. She was awarded the University of Rijeka Foundation Award for 2008 and the University of Rijeka Faculty of Law Award for Research Excellence for 2019. She received grants including the Fulbright Research Fellow scholarship in 2010 for the research at the Columbia University, the GRUR scholarship in 2007, 2008 and 2014 for the research at the MPI for Innovation and Competition and the IRZ scholarship in 2002 for research at the MPI for Comparative and International Private Law and the University of Hamburg. She authored papers and book chapters published in Croatia and abroad and a monograph on overriding mandatory provisions. Ivana was or currently is involved in research under a dozen EU, international and national projects, in particular on the European private international law including two EU-funded projects on property and succession regulations and five EU-funded projects on cross-border civil procedure.

She is a co-editor of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL), a member of the Editorial Boards of the Santander Art and Culture Law Review (SACLR) and Tolerance International Review (TIR), and an editor at the global blog www.conflictoflaw.net. Ivana is a member of the international team at the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law of the University of Opole in Poland and an external collaborator at the University of Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law. She was visiting professor at the University of Navarra, the IULM, the University Antwerp, the University of Ljubljana, WIPO Summer School and the MSU Croatia Summer Institute. She is regularly called by domestic and foreign institutions to provide training to judges and legal professionals in the area of EU private international law. Among her professional memberships is the one in the ILA and ATRIP, while she also acts as deputy president of the Croatian Comparative Law Association. She passed the Croatian Bar Exam in 2004 and from 2008 to 2013 she acted as a member of the Republic of Croatian Boards of Appeal for Industrial Property.