Croatian Team
Team #01
Dr. Sunčana Roksandić
Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Sunčana Roksandić, is Head of the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. She teaches Criminal Law, Economic Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, EU Substantive Criminal Law and the Protection of Victims, Bioethics and Human Rights, Medicine and law. She obtained her PhD as a scholarship holder and doctoral candidate of the Criminology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (2012-2016),) defending the dissertation as an international double doctorate (Cotutelle de thèse) with the grade summa cum laude both in Zagreb and Freiburg. Her PhD was published as a book under the title „Prosecuting Serious Economic Crimes as International Crimes, A new Mandate for the ICC?“ She is the recipient of a scholarship for postdoctoral research from the Marija and Mirjan Damaška Foundation (2019/2020).
She was participating in the US State Department IVLP program: Woman Countering Violent Extremism. She is a recipient of the 2023 Reward: the Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption Centre, in support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, The Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award in the category of: Academic Research and Education. She is an external member of the Committee for Legislation of the Croatian Parliament (2021-2024; 2025-2029) and the president of the Commission for the Protection of Persons with Mental Disabilities at the Ministry of Justice and the President of the Council for the Implementation of the Code of Conduct of Highest State Officials in Executive Bodies (both since 2023).
She was a member of several law commissions appointed by Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Health in drafting amendments to e.g. Criminal Code. She is a researcher and expert in international, European and national scientific and professional projects, (e.g. CoE, EU, Erasmus +, UNODC, UNDP, Max Planck Institute Freiburg, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime etc,). She publishes extensively in the field of (international) economic crimes, transitional justice, protection of human rights by means of national, transnational and international criminal law with specialty in protecting health and economic human rights by international law and policy.
Dr. Аnamarija Musa
Anamarija Musa, PhD is a professor of administrative science at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she has been employed since 2001. She graduated in law in 1999 and earned her PhD in 2009 in the same institution. She earned her MSc in European Governance from the LSE, UK. Currently she is also serving as vice-rector of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, responsible for quality management and ethics (October 2022-present). In the period 2013-2018 she served as the Information Commissioner of The Republic of Croatia appointed by the Croatian Parliament to build an independent institution for the protection and promotion of the access to information and overall transparency in the public sector, the task she accomplished successfully.
In her academic and professional work, she focuses on the reform of public administration (organisation, functioning and management of central government and local government) in the context of the European union governance, as well as on the issues of transparency, integrity, and accountability of government with special reference to the anti-corruption instruments (access to information, conflict of interest, ethics and integrity, lobbying, public participation in the regulatory process), coordination and politico- administrative relations (independent accountability institutions) and e-government (digitalisation, open data).
She has extensively worked for international organisations and the EU as an expert and consultant in the above fields, including the European Commission, Council of Europe, OECD Sigma, USAID, UNDP, World Bank as well as for the foreign embassies and foundations in Croatia. She has consultancy experience in the region (Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) mainly in the field of anticorruption instruments and public administration reform.
In Croatia she has participated intensively in the law drafting and strategy preparation as an expert for several governments in the fields of transparency and integrity (Law on the access to information, Law on the prevention of the conflict of interest, Law on lobbying, etc.; Strategy of public administration reform; Open government partnership action plan). She is also a member of the Anticorruption Council of the Republic of Croatia and the former member of the Open Government Partnership Initiative Croatia. She is a member of the International advisory board of the Access Info Europe.
Dr. Marta Dragičević Prtenjača
Dr. Marta Dragičević Prtenjača is an Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, and currently is a Head of the Department of Criminal Sciences, Criminology and Victimology. She holds a PhD in Criminal Law and has over 15 years of academic and professional experience in the fields of criminal law, anti-corruption, juvenile justice, and human rights. Her academic work includes participation in numerous national and international research projects, including cooperation with the Max Planck Institute, the Croatian Science Foundation, and the European Commission.
She was actively involved in the “Innocence Project Croatia” and currently participates in the HRZZ-funded research project Misdemeanor Law in the European Context – Challenges and Perspectives." She has co-authored legal handbooks, published in Croatian and international journals, and actively contributed to legislative reforms in Croatia. She has served as an independent expert for the Croatian Ministry of Justice, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention accession process, and was engaged as an independent legal expert by the international consulting firm ECORYS (Netherlands), commissioned by the European Commission to monitor and assess corruption-related developments in Croatia.
She has been a member of working groups within the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), contributing to the development of the ICC Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest. Dragičević Prtenjača has presented her research at various national and international conferences.
She was participating in the US State Department IVLP program: Woman Countering Violent Extremism. She is a recipient of the 2023 Reward: the Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption Centre, in support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, The Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award in the category of: Academic Research and Education. She is an external member of the Committee for Legislation of the Croatian Parliament (2021-2024; 2025-2029) and the president of the Commission for the Protection of Persons with Mental Disabilities at the Ministry of Justice and the President of the Council for the Implementation of the Code of Conduct of Highest State Officials in Executive Bodies (both since 2023).
She was a member of several law commissions appointed by Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Health in drafting amendments to e.g. Criminal Code. She is a researcher and expert in international, European and national scientific and professional projects, (e.g. CoE, EU, Erasmus +, UNODC, UNDP, Max Planck Institute Freiburg, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime etc,). She publishes extensively in the field of (international) economic crimes, transitional justice, protection of human rights by means of national, transnational and international criminal law with specialty in protecting health and economic human rights by international law and policy.
Мarijana Jurić
Marijana Jurić graduated in 2022 from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and enrolled in a doctoral program in the field of criminal law sciences that same year.
During her studies, she served as a mentor at the Law Clinic in the Group for Assistance and Protection of Victims of Criminal Offenses. Since graduating, she has been working as a trainee lawyer and is currently employed at a law office that primarily deals with criminal law.
In October 2024, she passed the bar exam. Since 2023, she has also been involved in monitoring the development of the field and legal issues related to persons with mental disorders, as part of the Commission for the Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders, established within the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration, and Digital Transformation of the Republic of Croatia.