Paula Poretti 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 was granted a research project Društveni značaj zaštite prava potrošača (eng. Social significance of consumer rights protection). She was a national researcher within several studies of the European Commission Fitness Check of EU Consumer law (DG JUST), Study on the practical application and impact of collective redress mechanisms in Member States, Evaluation of the EU Consumer Programmes Directive) (all three DG JUST and consumers). She is a member of the National council for consumer protection and the working group of the Ministry of Economy for the monitoring of the „New deal for consumers“ legislative package. She held lectures at a number of international and national conferences, published scientific papers and several book chapters.