Davor Derenčinović

Born on 7 August 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia

  • Master of Law, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University, 1998
  • Ph.D. in Law, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University, 2000
  • Assistant (2002-2006), Associate Professor (2006-2009), Full Professor (2009-2021), Criminal Law Department, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University
  • Member, Bureau of Committee of Experts on Terrorism, Council of Europe, 2003-2004
  • Post-doctoral research fellow under the Fulbright program, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, United States of America, 2004-2005
  • President, Croatian Association for Criminal Law and Practice, 2008-2011
  • Head of Postgraduate Studies in Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University, 2009-2018
  • Member (2009-2012), Vice-President (2017-2019), President (2019-2021), Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA), Council of Europe
  • Founder and Director, International postgraduate course “Crime Prevention through Criminal Law and Security Studies”, Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2009-2021
  • Associate, Judicial Academy, 2010-2021
  • Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights, 2010-2021
  • Head, Criminal Law Department, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University, 2011-2021
  • Member (2012-2019),Vice-President (2012-2015), State Attorney's Council
  • Member, National Preventive Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture, 2012-2014
  • Legal expert, arbitration proceedings before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, World Bank, Washington, United States of America, 2014-2017
  • Vice-Dean, International Cooperation and Science, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University, 2015-2017
  • Foreign Director, Research Centre for European Criminal Law, Institute of Law of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, 2016-2019
  • President, Society of University Teachers and other Scholars, Zagreb, 2017-2021
  • President, Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, 2018-2021
  • Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 2 January 2022.
Davor Derenčinović