prof. dr. sc. Snježana Vasiljević
prof. dr. sc.
Snježana Vasiljević

Snježana Vasiljević is a professor of European Public Law, Fundamental Rights in the European Union, EU Gender Equality Law, European Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Department of European Public Law, University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law. She received her LLB, LLM, and Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb, her MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge (Darwin College) and completed her postdoctoral fellowships at the Columbia University, New York, and the University of California Los Angeles. She became the Head of the Department for Public Law and Public Administration and chief of the Committee for Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination, University of Zagreb-Faculty of Law. She currently serves as an ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights and Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Croatian government for gender equality, human rights, minority rights, and non-discrimination.

 

Short CV: 

  • Associate professor of European Public Law, Fundamental Rights in the European Union, EU Gender Equality Law, European Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination, University of Zagreb 
  • Head of Department for Public Law and Public Administration, University of Zagreb-Faculty of Law (2021-2023)
  • Head of the Committee for Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination, University of Zagreb-Faculty of Law (2021-2023)
  • specialized in European law and human rights at London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Liverpool, Johannes Kepler Univarsität Linz, Columbia University, New York and University of California Los Angeles
  • ad hoc judge, European Court of Human Rights (2019-ongoing)
  • Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for gender equality, human rights, minority rights and non-discrimination (2022-ongoing)
  • EU Charter expert, Fundamental Rights Agency (2023  - ongoing)
  • Ministry of Justice and Administration, member of the Working group for the improvement of the legislative framework for protection against violence against women and domestic violence (2022)
  • expert member of the Justice Committee of the Croatian Parliament (2021-2023)
  • expert member of the Justice Committee of the Croatian Parliament (2017-2020)
  • expert member of the Legislative Committee of the Croatian Parliament (2012-2016) 
  • national expert for the Fundamental Rights Agency and Council of Europe and lecturer of the Academy of European Law in Trier
  • leader - Jean Monnet Module “EU Law and Gender: Making Equality Effective” (2016-2019)
  • Head of eGender Equality Clinic, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, a project awarded by the Good Lobby Awards (2018.)
  • researcher - Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "EU Global Leadership in the Rule of Law" (2018-2022)
  • management board member & researcher - COST "Women on the Move" (2020-2024) 
  • author of the paragraph on multiple discrimination in the CoE Guidelines on Human Rights in Cultural Diverse Societies

  • certified Council of Europe HELP trainer providing distance learning courses for selected groups of legal professionals 

  • certified NLP Practitioner (Humanistic Neuro-linguistic Psychology), Coaching Skills Certificate (Academy of Executive Coaching), Team Coaching Foundation Level (CMI, David Clutterbuck) and Transaction Analysis Practitioner (International Transactional Analysis Academy). 

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Published papers recorded in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography Database (CROSBI)

Mutual Trust, Mutual Recognition and the Rule of Law in Croatia

Bačić Selanec, Nika ; Petrić, Davor ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2023.
XXX FIDE Congress Sofia 2023

EU Minority Conditionality and the Rule of Law: The Case of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2022.

Fundamental Rights in the European Union

Vasiljević, Snježana
2021.
Budućnost Europe: izazovi očuvanja temeljnih načela

EU Law and Gender-Balanced Boards: Making Equality Effective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2021.
Autumn School 2021 "Law & Gender: Gender Equality & Gender mainstreaming in the Context of European & International Law"

Balancing between Fundamental Freedoms and Fundamental Rights

Vasiljević, Snježana
2021.

The Current State of Play on Equal Pay Discrimination in Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2021.

Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Challenges Before and After the Accession

Vasiljević, Snježana
2020.

Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law in the EU: Challenges before and After the Accession

Vasiljević, Snježana
2020.
Pravo i politika EU: stara pitanja novi odgovori

Gender Equality and the Charter

Vasiljević, Snježana
2019.
International Conference making 10th Anniversary of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights becoming Legally Binding

Fundamental Rights and Non-Discrimination in case law of European Courts and National Courts

Vasiljević, Snježana ; Vinković, Mario
2019.

EU Minority Conditionality and the Rule of Law: a case of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2019.
IVR Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland

The Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights in the European Union: the Perspective of Strengthening and Challenges of Harmonisation

Vasiljević, Snježana
2019.
Zagrebačko-skopski kolokvij 2019.

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective


2018.

Ethical Blindness in Politics and Gender Relations

Holy, Mirela ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2018.
Poslovna etika

Handbook on Discrimination and Mobbing in the Workplace (Legal and Medical Perspectives)

Gović Penić, Iris ; Koić, Elvira ; Vasiljević, Snježana ; Vinković, Mario
2018.

Terrorism, Migration, Border Security and Fundamental Rights

Vasiljević, Snježana
2018.
Council for European Studies, 25th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana ; Örtenblad, Anders ; Marling, Raili
2018.

Gender Equality in Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2018.

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective


2017.

EU Law and Gender-Balanced Boards: Making Equality Effective

Vasiljević, Snježana ; Sunko, Ana-Maria
2017.
Croatian yearbook of European law & policy

Discriminatory speech and hate speech in the European legal framework

Vasiljević, Snježana
2016.

New Law and Values: Anti-discrimination Law in Post- communist Countries

Vasiljević, Snježana
2016.

Handbook of discrimination and mobbing in the workplace

Vinković, Mario ; Vasiljević, Snježana ; Gović Penić, Iris
2016.

Handbook of discrimination and mobbing in the workplace

Vinković, Mario ; Vasiljević, Snježana ; Gović Penić, Iris
2016.

Hate Speech and Unacceptable Speech

Antonina, Luka ; Georgiev, Mitre ; Hoffman, Dražen ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2016.

Equality and Diversity in Sport: Game Breaking

Vasiljević, Snježana
2016.
CEU San Pablo University Conference on Sport and EU, Madrid, Spain

Multiple Discrimination

Vasiljević, Snježana
2016.
Council of Europe Conference on Protection and Promotion on Human Rights in Cultural Diverse Societies

Multiple Discrimination: Stories of Wartime Rape Victims in the Balkan Conflict

Vasiljević, Snježana
2015.
3rd meeting of the Drafting Group on Human Rights in Culturally Diverse Society for the Members of the Steering Committee for Human Rights, Council of Europe, Strasbourg

The principle of non-discrimination and the doctrine of the horizontal direct effect

Vasiljević, Snježana
2015.
UACES 45th Annual Conference: Bilbao 2015

Multiple Discrimination in the context of the EU Anti-Discrimination Law

Vasiljević, Snježana
2015.
ERA Conference on Applying EU Anti-discrimination Law, Trier

What Legal and Policy Context is Needed to Complete Gender Equality Legislation and Implement It?

Vasiljević, Snježana
2015.
Equinet Conference, Taking Action for Gender Equality

Challenges of modern anti-discrimination law – light at the end of the tunnel?

Vasiljević, Snježana
2014.

Cultures of EU Citizenship & the Impact of National Procedures: the case of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana ; Oršolić Dalessio, Tina
2014.
The XXVI FIDE Congress

Toolkit for Identifying and Reporting Discrimination

Vasiljević, Snježana
2014.

Union citizenship: Development, Impact and Challenges. Croatian National Report

Vasiljević, Snježana
2014.

Right to be forgotten - new fundamental right in European context?

Vasiljević, Snježana
2014.
Informator : instruktivno-informativni list za ekonomska i pravna pitanja

Equality and non-discrimination principle in the context of the Croatian membership in the EU

Vasiljević, Snježana
2014.

Free movement of capital and direct investments in the Republic of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2013.
Informator : instruktivno-informativni list za ekonomska i pravna pitanja

Challenges of the Modern Anti-discrimination Law - Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Vasiljević, Snježana
2013.
UACES 43rd Annual Conference

Gender equality and non-discrimination principle in the context of the Croatian Accession to the EU

Vasiljević, Snježana
2013.
Mind the Gap - Family Socialization and Gender

Monitoring of Croatian anti-discriminative policies with regards to the balanced political participation of women and men: with a special focus on implementation of gender quotas and their effect

Deželan, Tomaž ; Krašovec Alenka ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2013.

Monitoring Croatian policies to promote gender equality in politics.

Vasiljević, Snjezana
2013.

Your Europe, your rights: What does the concept of the European citizenship mean?

Vasiljević, Snježana
2013.

Challenges of the Modern Anti-discrimination Law – Light at the end of the Tunnel?

Vasiljević, Snježana
2013.
UACES Annual General Meeting 2013

Neka se čuje i druga strana (Audiatur et altera pars): primjeri spolne i etničke diskriminacije

Vasiljević, Snježana
2012.

Intersectional discrimination - EU vs US perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2012.
Visiting Scholar Forum

EU vs US approach to anti-discrimination paradigm

Vasiljević, Snježana
2012.
Visiting Scholar forum, University of Columbia, School of Law, New York

Identity construction programs of the state and the EU: case study phase III: Citizens and Modernities: Between National and European Paths in Croatia

Topić, Martina ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2011.

APPENDIX TO WP5: Observations of Europe Day, 2009-2011: CROATIA

Topić, Martina ; Rodin, Siniša ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2011.

Consolidation of the case study: Croatian Case Study: an overview and reflection

Martina Topić ; Siniša Rodin ; Snježana Vasiljević
2011.

Similar and Different: Discrimination in the European Union and the Republic of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2011.

Identity construction programs of the state and the EU: case study phase I

Rodin, Siniša ; Topić, Martina ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2010.

Comparative legal analysis of anti-mobbing legislation. Country studies: Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia


2010.

Task and challenges: making whistleblowing work in Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2010.

Intersectional Discrimination in the process of European Integration: the case of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.

Antidiscrimination law in the light of European law: content and sanctions

Vasiljević, Snježana ; Balen, Braslav
2009.
Policija i sigurnost

Intersectional Discrimination: Western European vs. Eastern European Approach

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.
Second European Conference on Multidimensional Equality Law

Intersectional Discrimination: Difficulties in implementation of a European norm

Vasiljevic, Snjezana
2009.

The state of the art: Various paths to modernity-Croatia's case report

Topić, Martina ; Vasiljević, Snježana ; Đurašković, Stevo
2009.

Social exclusion and discrimination in the light of the Lisbon Treaty

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.

European Citizenship: a new challenge for European Democracy

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.

Multiple discrimination

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.

Discrimination and harassment at the workplace (mobbing) in the Croatian legal framework

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.
Informator : poslovno-pravni magazin

Intersectional Discrimination: Western European vs. Eastern European Approach

Vasiljević, Snježana
2009.
Second European Conference on Multidimensional Equality Law, University of Leeds

Are we defined by our similarities or is it our differences? Precautions against intersectional cases in the EU

Vasiljević, Snježana
2008.
Diversity and European Integration

Legal framework of Multiple Discrimination in Enlarged European Union

Vasiljević, Snježana
2008.

Challenges of EU Anti-discrimination Law: Diversity and Discrimination

Vasiljević, Snježana
2008.
Visiting Scholar Forum

Are we defined by our similarities or is it our differences? Precautions against intersectional cases in the EU

Vasiljević, Snježana
2008.
International Conference: Diversity and European Integration, Miami European Center of Excellence

European Citizenship

Vasiljević, Snježana
2006.

Implementation of gender equality policy

Vasiljević, Snježana ; Ivanković-Knežević, Katarina
2006.

European Citizenship from Gender Perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2006.
International Conference: Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship, International Perspective on Parliamentary Reforms Tampere

Sexual harassment: definition and content

Vasiljević, Snježana
2005.
Uznemiravanje i spolno uznemiravanje na radnom mjestu

Women as citizens of the EU

Vasiljević, Snježana
2005.
Žene pod europskim kišobranom

National Integrity Study

Vasiljević, Snježana
2005.

Gender Perspective from Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2005.
International Seminar: Between the Balkans and the EU, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki

The legal aspects of the protection of minorities in the process of stabilisation and association

Vasiljević, Snježana
2004.

European Citizenship - Women Closer or Further from the Union

Vasiljević, Snježana
2004.
International Seminar Within Framework of the Jean Monnet Module "Advanced Issues of European Law"

Ethnic Relations and Examples of Positive Practice in South-East Europe

Vasiljević, Snježana
2004.

Gender Equality in the Republic of Croatia

Vasiljević, Snježana
2004.
Najbolja pravna rješenja zaštite ljudskih prava seksualnih i rodnih manjina u RH

Equality of Men and Women : Law and Politics in Croatia and the EU


2003.

Sexual Harassment

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.

Gender Equality: Challenges of Croatian Legislation in the Process of approaching to the EU

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.

EU Citizenship and Fundamental Rights within the Framework of the Stabilization and Association

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.
International Seminar The Stabilization and Association Process and the Future of Europe

Gender Equality and the Problem of Sexual Harassment from the European Perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.

European Citizenship from Gender Perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.
Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu

Panel discussion on teaching European Community Law

Rodin, Siniša ; Smerdel, Branko ; Ćapeta, Tamara ; Maduro, Miguel ; Shaw, Jo ; Stadlmeier, Sigmar ; Selanec, Goran ; Vasiljević, Snježana ; Goldner, Iris
2003.
Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu

Gender Equality Act

Rodin, Siniša ; Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.
Revija za socijalnu politiku

Women as European citizens

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.
From Legislation to Action: The Equality of Men and Women (European Experiences and Croatian Perspectives)

European citizenship from a gender perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2003.
Contemporary citizenship: the politics of exclusion and inclusion II (Is there a chance for a post-national citizenship?)

The Problem of Sexual Harassment in Comparative Perspective

Vasiljević, Snježana
2002.
II European Society of Criminology Conference: Sharing borders and sharing discipline

Ethnic Minorities and the issue of regional cooperation in the frame of Stabilisation and Association Process

Vasiljević, Snježana
2002.
2nd International SEER Symposium

The problem of sexual harrasment in comparative perspective

Vasiljević, Snjezana
2002.

Different Dimensions of Sex and Gender

Vasiljević, Snježana
2002.
Second Conference of the European Society of Criminology

List of select projects

COST "Women on the move" (2020.-2024.) - Management board member, researcher

Jean Monnet Module "EU Law & Gender: Making Equality Effective" (2016-2019) - Module leader

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence: "EU's Global Leadership in the Rule of Law" - researcher