• Richard M. Alderman
    Richard M. Alderman
    Richard M. Alderman is a Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center, where he taught since 1973. Alderman is the author of more than 20 books and numerous articles. His most recent publications include “Consumer Credit and the Law,” and “Consumer Protection and the Law,” published by Thomson/West (co-authored with Dee Pridgen);
  • Goranka Barać – Ručević
    Goranka Barać – Ručević
    Goranka Barać – Ručević is a judge at the Civil Law Department of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia and a head of the Unit for Indexing and Publishing of Case Law of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia. She is a long-term mentor to legal secretaries and legal trainees. As an educator at the Judicial Academy, she has both authored and co-authored a number of educational materials. She has been a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law and
  • Jacolien Barnard
    Jacolien Barnard
    Jacolien Barnard is a professor at the Department of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a NRF-rated researcher, holding a C2 rating. She is a member of the International Association of Consumer Law (IACL) and head of the conference committee for the University of Pretoria International Consumer Law Conference (UPICLC) held bi-annually
  • Jürgen Basedow
    Jürgen Basedow
    Jürgen Basedow is an emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law at Hamburg and a professor of law at the University of Hamburg. Before being appointed to the Institute in 1997 he served as a professor of law at the University of Augsburg and at the Free University of Berlin. He has been teaching as a visiting professor in many universities across the globe. He is a member of the Institut
  • Vlatka Butorac Malnar
    Vlatka Butorac Malnar
    Vlatka Butorac Malnar is an Associate Professor at the International and European Private Law Department at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. In addition to European Private Law, she teaches Competition Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She holds the LL.M. and Ph.D. degree from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. As a visiting fellow, she researched in a number of institutions,
  • Nicola Chesaites
    Nicola Chesaites
    Nicola Chesaites is a partner of the London and Brussels offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. Nicola has extensive experience of competition damages litigation before UK courts, acting for both claimants and defendants before the English High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. Nicola also has significant
  • Vesna Crnić-Grotić
    Vesna Crnić-Grotić
    Vesna Crnić-Grotić, professor of International Law and the dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She also teaches International Law of the Sea, International Law of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the Protection of Minorities in International Law. She has published a number of articles dealing with these topics and she has participated in numerous international
  • Mateja Đurović
    Mateja Đurović
    Dr. Mateja Đurović is a Reader in Contract and Commercial Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at King’s College London. Previous to this, he was an Assistant Professor (2015‐2017) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Mateja Đurovic holds a PhD and LLM degrees from the European University Institute, Italy
  • Klaus Fiesinger
    Klaus Fiesinger
    Dr. Fiesinger received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Munich. He is author of the book “Ballhausplatz-Diplomatie 1945-1949.” From 2004 until 2012 he was visiting professor at the Andrassy University in Budapest. Occasionally he gives lectures on Euroregions, cross-border police cooperation and political education. Dr. Fiesinger is member of IDM, the Austrian Institute in Vienna for the Danube Region and
  • Geraint Howells
    Geraint Howells
    Geraint Howells is Executive Dean of Business, Public Policy and Law at the National University of Galway, and Visiting Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Manchester. He was previously Chair Professor of Commercial Law and Dean of the Law School at City University of Hong Kong. He is a former President of the International Association of Consumer Law. He previously held chairs at Sheffield, Lancaster and Manchester and has been head of law schools at Lancaster, Manchester and City University of Hong Kong. He has been a
  • Marko Ilešič
    Marko Ilešič
    Marko Ilešič is a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2004. He obtained the title of the Doctor of Law at the University of Ljubljana. He specialised in comparative law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Coimbra. Previously he acted as Professor of Civil, Commercial and Private International Law and the Vice-Dean (1995-2001) and Dean (2001-04) of the Faculty of Law at the University of
  • Iva Ivanišević Mostovac
    Iva Ivanišević Mostovac
    Iva Ivanišević Mostovac is a judge and the president of the Civil Procedure Department of the Municipal Court of Rijeka, since 2014. She served as a judge at the Municipal Labour Law Court of Zagreb and the Municipal Civil Law Court of Zagreb, where she was appointed in 2011. She also worked as a head of the department of the Office of the Agent of the Republic of Croatia before the European Court of Human
  • Eleni Kaprou
    Eleni Kaprou
    Eleni Kaprou is a Lecturer in Commercial Law in Brunel University since 2018. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral researcher in Cardiff University. Eleni finished her PhD in Nottingham University where she was awarded the 2018 DJ Harris award for the best thesis in law. Eleni’s interests lay in private law and in particular European consumer law.
  • Ivana Kunda
    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.
  • Aleksandra Markić Boban
    Aleksandra Markić Boban
    Aleksandra Markić Boban graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb in English and German Language and Literature (MA), and holds a MScs in European Studies. Before joining the Hanns Seidel Foundation she worked for the ECMM and the EUAM as well as for the German Ambassy in Zagreb. In her capacity as the Head of Project Office in Zagreb she was responsible for initiating, organizing and evaluating more than
  • Hans-W. Micklitz
    Hans-W. Micklitz
    Hans-W. Micklitz is a distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and a part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy). He is the member of the ERC research team headed by Professor Giovanni Sartor, Bologna/EUI Florence on the regulation of computations (processes and systems) (2019-2024). His research interests include i.a. transnational and European (private) law
  • Nataša Mikuš Žigman
    Nataša Mikuš Žigman
    Nataša Mikuš Žigman is the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia from 2020. Previously she acted as the state secretary of the of the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts (2016-2020), and as the head and head deputy of the Central Finance and Contracting Agency of the European Union funded programmes and projects (2012- 2016). She was also a deputy of the state secretary of the Central
  • Emilia Mišćenić
    Emilia Mišćenić
    Emilia Mišćenić is an Associate Professor at the Chair of International and European Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka. She obtained her master’s degree from the Europa-Institut Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, and her doctoral degree at the scientific study programme Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria. She authored the book in German language on consumer loan agreements cited in the opinion of
  • Damjan Možina
    Damjan Možina
    Damjan Možina is Professor of Civil and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He studied Law in Ljubljana (Bachelor’s degree) and Berlin (Humboldt, LL.M,). He passed the Bar Exam in Slovenia (2003). He received his PhD from University of Ljubljana with a thesis on Breach of contract and remedies in comparative perspective (2005). He had several research scholarships
  • Hrvoje Pauković
    Hrvoje Pauković
    Hrvoje Pauković has been the Managing Director of the Croatian Insurance Bureau since 2007. After graduating from the Faculty of Law in Rijeka, where he earned his master’s degree in law at the postgraduate studies "Law of International Trade, Transport and Insurance", he began his career as an attorney assistant. He started his insurance career in 2001 in Croatia osiguranje d.d. and
  • Silvija Petrić
    Silvija Petrić
    Silvija Petrić is a retired Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Split. Her interest areas include civil law, European private law and consumer protection law. She studied at the Asser College Europe in Haag, and at the University of London – Institute of United States Studies. As a member of the Working Group 28 for the Chapter “Consumer and Health Protection”
  • Pascal Pichonnaz
    Pascal Pichonnaz
    Pascal Pichonnaz is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He specializes in Swiss and comparative contract law, Roman law and European consumer law. Pichonnaz has been Dean of the Fribourg Faculty of Law from 2014 to 2017. He has published several books on various aspects of contract law, unfair competition, standard terms and
  • Elise Poillot
    Elise Poillot
    Elise Poillot is full professor of Droit Civil in the Faculty of Law, Economy and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. She has been invited Professor at the University of Georgia (USA), Brescia and Milan (Italy) and has been a member of the Italian national selection committee for full and associate professors of private law (ASN) and of the universities study programmes evaluation committee in Belgium and Québec.
  • Paula Poretti
    Paula Poretti
    Paula Poretti is an Associate Professor at the Department for Civil and Family Law, Faculty of Law, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek. She is currently vice-dean for education and students at the Faculty of Law, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek. She was a member of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Procedural Law and of the Jean Monnet Chair on the Cross-border Movement of a Child in EU. She participated in a significant number of scientific EU competitive research projects and
  • Ana Pošćić
    Ana Pošćić
    Dr. Ana Pošćić is an associate professor and Head of Department of European Public Law at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law. Dr. Pošćić published a book “European Competition Law and Consumer Interests, a textbook “Regulation of Games of Chance in the EU” in co-authorship, as well as several scientific articles on various topics including Internal Market, Consumer Protection Law, Competition Law and EU Law.
  • Martin Schmidt-Kessel
    Martin Schmidt-Kessel
    Martin Schmidt-Kessel (Doctorate Freiburg 2001; Habilitation Freiburg 2003) is full Professor of German and European Consumer Law, Private Law and Comparative Law and Director of the Centre for Consumer Law at the University of Bayreuth. He serves as Secretary General of the German Association of Comparative Law. He is Member of the European Law Institute and Associate Member to the International Academy of Comparative Law.
  • Maciej Szpunar
    Maciej Szpunar
    Maciej Szpunar is the First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). He obtained his LL.M. from the College of Europe, Bruges. AG Szpunar is a member of the Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (‘Acquis Group') and the European Group for Private International Law. He is an associated member of the International Academy of
  • Vesna Tomljenović
    Vesna Tomljenović
    Vesna Tomljenović is the first Croatian Judge at the General Court of the European Union elected in 2013 and reappointed in 2019. She is the President of the Second Chamber at the General Court of the European Union. She is a Full Professor at the Department of International and European Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka as well as the Head of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the
  • Christian Twigg-Flesner
    Christian Twigg-Flesner
    Professor Dr Christian Twigg-Flesner LL.B. PCHE Ph.D. (Sheffield) is Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Warwick (since September 2017). Previously, he was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Hull (from 2010), having worked there since 2004, at the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University before then. His research interests are in the areas International, English and European Commercial, Consumer and Contract Law, with a particular focus
  • Marina Veljak
    Marina Veljak
    Marina Veljak is the judge at the High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia in Zagreb since 2008. Previously she was the judge at the Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia in Rijeka, where she worked for fifteen years. She is mainly dealing with commercial and maritime law disputes. She is a member of the Croatian Maritime Law Association and the Croatian Transport Law Association.
  • Danijela Vrbljanac
    Danijela Vrbljanac
    Danijela Vrbljanac is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of International and European Private Law, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law. She was granted scholarships for research stays at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Europa-Institute of the University of Saarland (Germany) and the University of Milan - Bicocca (Italy). She conducted research on other renowned scientific institutions such as