Prof. Dr. sc. IVANA KUNDA

University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Hahlić 6
51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Email: ivana.kunda@pravri.uniri.hr

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1976

EDUCATION

  • 1999 – Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
  • 2004 – Bar Exam, Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, Zagreb
  • 2004 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
  • 2008 – Doctor of Law (PhD), Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • 1999 – 2000 – Trainee Lawyer, Attorneys at Law Vukić & Partners, Rijeka
  • 2000 – 2002 – Court Trainee – volunteer, Commercial Court in Rijeka
  • 2000 – present – Research Assistant, Senior Assistant, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
  • 2013 – present – Head of the Chair of International and European Private Law, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
  • 2016 – present – Head of the Doctoral Study Programme, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
  • 2017 – present – Vice-Dean for Research, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law

TRAINING

  • European University Institute, Firenza, Italy, 8-13 October 2018
  • Visiting Scholar within the Fulbright exchange program, Columbia University School of Law, New York, USA, 1 February-31 July 2011
  • The scholarship granted by GRUR (Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht)
  • Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht) München, Germany, 1 June-30 September 2014, 15 August-15 September 2008, 1 June-30 September 2007, 1 may-30 September 2006, 1-28 February 2006
  • The scholarship granted by Deutschen Stiftung für internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit e.V., University of Hamburg Faculty of Law (Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht), Hamburg, Germany, 1 June-15 October 2002
  • The scholarship Matra granted by the Government of the Netherlands, The Hague Academy of International Law: Summer Session on Private International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands, 5-23 July 2004, 2-20 July 2001
  • Scholarship of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County for postgraduate studies in “Law on European Integration”, University of Rijeka Faculty of Law

TEACHING AND MENTORING

  • University of Rijeka Faculty of Law: The Integrated University Study of Law; Professional Administration Studies; Postgraduate Specialist Study: Corporate Finance Law; Postgraduate Specialist Study: Law of European Integrations; Doctoral Study
  • University of Zagreb: Postgraduate Specialist Study: Intellectual Property
  • Michigan State University: Summer Institute of Intellectual Property Law Croatia
  • Mentorship in doctoral studies (1 completed doctoral student and 3 in progress)
  • Lectures at foreign institutions: Syracuse University, Syracuse (SAD); Academy of European Law, Trier (Germany); University of Aberdeen School of Law, Aberdeen (Scotland, United Kingdom); Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione Milan (IULM) (Italy); Univerzitet v Ljubljani, Pravna fakulteta, Ljubljana (Slovenia); University of Antwerp, Antwerpen (Belgium); Università degli studi di Torino, Torino (Italy); Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy)

PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Scientific projects

  • 2022 – 2024 – Digital Communication and Safeguarding the Parties’ Rights: Challenges for European Civil Procedure – DIGI-GUARD (EU Justice No. 101046660 — DIGI-GUARD — JUST-2021-JCOO)
  • 2021 – 2023 – E-training on EU Family Property Regimes — EU-FamPro (EU Justice No. 101008404 —JUST-AG-2020/JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2020)
  • 2021 – 2023 – Property Rights System over Tangible Goods in the Field of European Private International Law: Aspects of International Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, (the project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation)
  • 2020 – 2022 – Enabling Consumer to Become Prosumer in Energy Transition Era – ECPE (the project of the University of Camerino (UNICAM))
  • 2019 – 2024 – Young Researchers’ Career Development Project – Training of New PhDs (DOK-01-2020) for doctoral student Martina Tičić
  • 2019 – 2021 – Train to Enforce – Train2 EN4CE (EU Justice No. 854038-JUST-AG-2018/JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2018)
  • 2019 – 2021 – Diversity of Enforcement Titles in Cross-Border Debt Collection in the EU – EU_En4s (EU Justice No. 831628-JUST-AG-2018/JUST-JCOO-AG-2018)
  • 2018 – 2021 – Facilitating Cross-Border Family Life: Towards a Common European Understanding – EUFams II (br. 800780-JUST-AG-2017/JUST-JCOO AG_2017)
  • 2017 – 2019 – Personalized Solution in European Family and Succession Law – PSEFS (EU Justice No. 800821-JUST-AG-2017/JUST-JCOO-AG-2017)
  • 2015 – 2019. – Corporate Acquisitions and Access to Entrepreneurial Financing after EU Accession (HRZZ project)
  • 2015 – 2017 – Remedies Concerning Enforcement of Foreign Judgements According to Brussels I Recast – BIARE (br. JUST/2014/JCOO/AG/CIVI/7749)
  • 2015 – 2017 – EU Judiciary Training on Brussels IIa Regulation: From South to East (EU Justice No. JUST/2014/JTRA/AG/EJTR/6854)
  • 2014 – 2017 – Business and Human Rights Challenges for Cross-Border Litigation in the European Union (EU Justice No. JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4661)

Conferences and Seminars

  • Chair of the program and organizing committee of the 8th International Scientific Conference Petar Šarčević ”Cultural Heritage and Legal Regulation: From Global Aspirations to Local Challenge”, Rijeka, 5-6 October 2023
  • Member of the program and organizing committee Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico – temi giuridici di attualità, Rijeka, 25 October 2023
  • Member of the program and organizing committee Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico – temi giuridici di attualità, Rijeka, 29 September 2022
  • Member of the program and organizing committee Sense and Sensibility in Cross-Border Cases: Couples’ Property, Opatija, 30 June 2022
  • Chair of the program and member of the organizing committee YUFE LAW RIJEKA Conference “Sustainability as a Legal Principle”, Rijeka, 23-24 June 2022
  • Member of the program and organizing committee Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico – temi giuridici di attualità, Rijeka, 21 September 2020
  • Chair of the program and member of the organizing committee 6th International Scientific Conference Petar Šarčević ”Intellectual Property Rights in the EU: Going Digital”, Zagreb, 18-19 October 2019
  • Chair of the program and organizing committee Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico – temi giuridici di attualità, Rijeka, 4 July 2019
  • Chair of the program and organizing committee Pride and Prejudice in Cross-Border Cases, Rijeka, 22 May 2018
  • Chair of the program and organizing committee 5th International Scientific Conference Petar Šarčević ”Information and Data – The Road Ahead”, Opatija 6-7 October 2017
  • Co-Director of the program committee ”Corporate Acquisitions and Access to the Entrepreneurial Financing in the Post-Accession Period”, Opatija, 5-6 October 2015
  • Member of the program and organizing committee 4th International Scientific Conference Petar Šarčević ”EU Competition and State Aid Rules: Interaction between Public and Private Enforcement”, Rovinj, 9-10 April 2015
  • Chair of the program and organizing committee 3rd International Scientific Conference Petar Šarčević ”Family and Children: European Expectations and National Reality”, Opatija, 20-21 September 2013
  • Director of the conference ‘Violation of Personality Rights in Croatian and European Law”, Rijeka, 28 February 2014
  • Member of the program and organizing committee 1st International Scientific Conference Petar Šarčević ”The Brussels I Regulation: Challenges for Croatian Judiciary”, Opatija, 13-14 November 2009
  • Chair of the program and organizing committee of the conferences RIDOC: Rijeka Doctoral Conference – 8 December 2023; 7-8 December 2022; 10 December 2021; 4 December 2020; 7 December 2018; 2 December 2016

MEMBERSHIPS

Membership in Editorial Boards and Blogs

  • Editor of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL, Springer)
  • Member of the Editoral Board Santander Art and Culture Law Review (SACLR)
  • Member of the Editoral Board Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci
  • Editor for Croatia of the web site of the blog Conflictoflaw.net

Membership in Professional and Scientific Associations

  • International Law Association (ILA)
  • International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
  • European Association for Private International Law (EAPIL)
  • Croatian Comparative Law, Deputy President
  • Croatian Maritime Law Association

Membership in Working Groups

  • Member of the expert working group for drafting the Law on Private International Law from of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration (2019)
  • Member of the expert working group for drafting the Law on Amendments to the Family Law of the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy (2023)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)

Books

  1. Kunda, Ivana
    Internationally Mandatory Rules of Third Country in European Contract Conflict of Laws: The Rome Convention and the Proposed Rome I Regulation, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, 2007.

Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Kunda, Ivana
    Jesu li granične digitalne tehnologije prerasle granice međunarodnog privatnog prava?, Barbić, J.; Župan, M. (ed.), Međunarodno privatno pravo i globalni trendovi // Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU), Zagreb, 2024.
  2. Kunda, Ivana
    Crowdfunding in the EU: Private International Law Issues by Design, Macchiavello, E. (ed.), Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business: A Commentary // Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK / Northhampton, MA, USA, 2022, pp. 529-547.
  3. Kunda, Ivana; Limantė, Agnė
    Jurisdiction Provisions in the Twin Regulations, Ruggeri, L.; Limantė, A.; Pogorelčnik, Vogrinc, N. (eds.), The EU Regulations on Matrimonial Property and Property of Registered Partnerships // Intersentia, Cham, 2022, pp. 71-100.
  4. Kunda, Ivana; Tičić, Martina
    Authentic Instruments and Court Settlements under the Twin Regulations, Ruggeri, L.; Limantė, A.; Pogorelčnik, Vogrinc, N. (eds.), The EU Regulations on Matrimonial Property and Property of Registered Partnerships // Intersentia, Cham, 2022, pp. 157-187.
  5. Kunda, Ivana
    Overriding Mandatory Provisions before the CJEU: Takeaways or Getaways?, Pfeiffer, M.; Brodec, J.; Bríza, P.; Zavadilová, M. (eds.) // Liber Amicorum Monika Pauknerová, Wolters Kluwer, Prag, 2021, pp. 241-258.
  6. Župan, Mirela; Kunda, Ivana; Poretti, Paula
    Judicial Training in European Private International Law in Family and Succession Matters, Pfeiffer, T.; Lobach, Q. C.; Rapp T. (eds.), Facilitating Cross-Border Family Life – Towards a Common European Understanding: EUFams II and Beyond // Heidelberg University Publishing, Heidelberg, 2021, pp. 91-149.
  7. Kunda, Ivana
    Experiences and Challenges of Croatia as EU Member State, Kellerhals, A.; Baumgartner, T. (eds.), Current Challenges of European Integration: 12th Network Europe Conference //
    EIZ Publishing, Zürich, 2021, pp. 61-80.
  8. Kunda, Ivana
    Hyperlinking to Copyright Works in EU: Finding a Weak Link, Gervais, D. (ed.), The Future of Intellectual Property // Edward Elgar Publishing, Nashville, 2021, pp. 251-271.
  9. Tomljenović, Vesna; Kunda, Ivana
    Requirement of “Member States’ legislation” for dependent child allowance in EU Staff Regulation: Discriminationproof or Not? Sander, G. et al. (eds.), Exploring the Social Dimension of Europe // Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, 2021, pp. 301-319.
  10. Kunda, Ivana
    Elektronička trgovina & Međunarodno privatnopravni odnosi, Mišćenić, E. (ed.), Europsko privatno pravo – posebni dio // Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2021, pp. 228-285.
  11. Kunda, Ivana
    Upućivanje na propise EU u Zakonu o međunarodnom privatnom pravu, Barbić, J.; Sikirić, H. (eds.), Međunarodno privatno pravo – interakcija međunarodnih, europskih i domaćih propisa // Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU), Zagreb, 2020, pp. 21-48.

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