izv. prof. dr. sc. Vanja-Ivan Savić
izv. prof. dr. sc.
Vanja-Ivan Savić

Dr. Vanja-Ivan Savić is a Croatian lawyer. He graduated from University of Zagreb Faculty of Law cum laude, where he obtained his first law degree. Later he obtained Master of Science in Law Degree and Ph.D. at the same University.  He was a British Chevening Scholar at The University of Edinburgh in 2005. As a researcher he worked as International Fellow at DePaul University’s International Human Rights Law Institute in Chicago in 2010. His area of expertise includes Legal Theory, Theory of Law and State, Corporate Criminal Law, Law and Religion and International Human Rights. Legal Theory and Law and Religion are of his primary interest and in that respect he participated at many lectures and conferences held in Croatia and abroad. He attended Harvard University Law School’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers and later conference held at their Islamic Legal Studies Program. He also participated at many law and religion themed conferences: Cracow, Poland; Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Zagreb, Croatia and London, UK. In 2013 he was Visiting Research Associate at the University of Adelaide Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion. Currently he holds positions of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies where he conducts research connected with law, religion and cohabitation in complex religious and ethnic societies. Dr. Savić’s papers were published in Croatian and English in numerous publications in Croatia and abroad and one article was translated into Vietnamese. Dr. Savić is interested to promote Law and Religion as a discipline in his home county Croatia and to explore how Religion interferes with Law and with functioning of the State, especially how it can shape governing structures within Political Systems. He speaks English and French and uses Spanish and is also familiar with Arabic and Hebrew letters. He earned Bar Exam Certificate.

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

Privacy and Religious Freedoms: Friends or Foes, or Both?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.
International Scientific Conference on 'The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age - in specific terms'

Believer may leave the Church, but can not erase his/hers baptism.

Pavičić, Darko ; Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.

Where are The Limits of Privacy? Can GDPR Harm Religious Freedoms?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.
IVR 2022

Privacy of Family Life as Fundamental Value of Contemporary Society

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Krajina, Mate (novinar)
2022.

Whom the Privacy Laws Protect? – Concepts and Developments

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.
The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age – in general terms

On the Way to Stolac (Rabbi Moshe Danon Tomb)

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.

Regional perspectives on the role of religion in dealing with COVID - faith, law and science

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.
G20 Interfaith Forum Regional Pre-Meeting

Holy See and the International Recognition of the Republic of Croatia

Hrvatin Roth, Antonia ; Pelicarić, Neven ; Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.

In the Neighborhood - Helping on the Doors of Ukraine

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2022.

Law, Religion and Ethnicity in Central and Southeast Europe

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.
Visiting Lectures KUL

Croatia as Italy?: Presence of Religion in the Public School System

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.
The protection of religious freedom in Central and Eastern European countries

THOMAS E. DOBBS, M.D., M.P.H., IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITYAS STATE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENTOF HEALTH, ET AL.,Petitioners,v.JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION, ON BEHALF ITSELF AND ITS PATIENTS, ET AL.,Respondents

Savić, Vanja-Ivan, with other International Scholars.
2021.

Christmas Greetings

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

We expect more recognition and understanding from the Western countries

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

Travel: Nigeria

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

Textbook for Understanding Law and State

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

Days of the Bread and Religion in the Public Sphere

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

Introductory Lecture: Religion and Legal Systems

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.
13. Kongres studenata prava

The Legal Regulation of Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere in Croatia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

‘Our Father’ – In or Out? Religious Education and Secular Tendencies in Croatian Public Schools in the European Context

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.
Law, Identity and Values

Religious Symbols in the Public Order of the Republic of Croatia (Analysis of the Relevant Judgments of the ECHR Included)

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.
245. Tribina Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu i Kluba pravnika Grada Zagreba - Vjersko i sekularno u javnoj sferi: 10 godina od presude Lautsi protiv Italije

Religious Symbols in the public sphere in the legal order of Croatia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.
Religious Symbols in Public Sphere in the Legal Orders of Central and Eastern European Countries

Croatian Religious Freedom Regulations and Relationship with the Islamic Community Should Be Exported as the First Class Product

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

Stand and Stay for What is Right (in: Tomislav Pervan, OFM, Joan of Arc - A Life)

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2021.

The Punta Del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Scharffs, Brett ; Durham, W. Cole ; Ferrari, Silvio ; Torfs, Rik ; Figeľ, Ján, Benett, Andrew, et Al.
2021.
The Punta Del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere

Keeper of Tradition and Divine Law in Times of Identity Crisis: Catholic Church and Demands of GDPR in the EU and Croatia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Škvorc, Mladen
2020.
Forum Canonicum de Instituto Superior de Direito Canonico, Univesidade Catolica Portuguesa Lisboa

It works better if it is not too secularized: the Croatian constitutional model for regulating state-church relations

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2020.

We can't move forward as we did it before!

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2020.

Religion and Persecution: Crime on the Maps of the World

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2020.
12th Edition of the International Spring Course 'Crime Prevention Through Criminal Law and Security Studies'

Comparative Perspectives on Association Laws

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2020.
African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies and CRL Commission South Africa Conference

Geography of the Religious Persecution and Trafficking (Nigeria)

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.

Religious Injury under the Montreal Convention: The (Un)Usual Case of an EL AL Flight from New York to Tel Aviv

Savić, Iva ; Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.
Issues in aviation law and policy

State and Church in Croatia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.

Charles Habib Malik and Reflections of a Lebanese Multi-Religious Landscape - A Comment Written on the Occasion of the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.
Zagrebačka pravna revija

Treaties Increase the Level of Religious Freedom in Croatia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.

Can Constitutions or Laws Change Marriage?: Reflections on the “Goods of Marriage” and Natural Law of John Finnis

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.
Godišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske = Yearbook Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences

Croatian Model of Regulating 'Church-State' relations as a role model for the Region?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.
Social Changes in the Global World, 'Goce Delčev' University

Love as a Supreme Law for All: A Path to Ecumenical Justice

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.
IVR Congress, XXIX World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law & Social Philosophy (Dignity, Democracy, Diversity, Universität Luzern

Religion in the Public Sphere: Legal Protection of Religious Life in Croatia and the World

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.

Legal Protection of Religious Life in Croatia and Worldwide

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2019.
Tribina Grada Zagreba

Law, Religion and Love: Seeking Ecumenical Justice for the Other


2018.

Lex Talionis in Jewish Law: Supplement to the teachings on the meaning of punishment in Croatian legal theory

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2018.
Godišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske = Yearbook Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences

Law’s Love

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Babie, Paul
2018.

Religion in Consociational State: Any Lessons To Exchange Between Africa and Europe?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2018.
Law, Religion and Human Flourishing (ACLARS)

Religious Freedom in Turbulent Times; European Perspective and Tendencies in Brazil

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2018.
Universidade de Sorocaba 'Guest Speaker Series'

Chaplaincies in Croatia - Legal and Historical Overview

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2018.
European Consortium For Church and State Research Annual Meeting at the University of Latvia

Report on Chaplaincies in Croatia: Legal and Historical Overview

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2018.

Love, Religion and Love

Babie, Paul ; Savić Vanja-Ivan
2017.
24th Annual Symposium on Law and Religion: "Religion and Religious Freedom in the Changing World", Brigham Young University (BYU)

Religious Life After Communism: One Europe-Two Faces

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2017.
Religion and The Legacy of The Soviet State, A Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective (BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies and Free University of Georgia in Tbilisi)

Religion and The Rule of Law - Comparative Perspectives

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2017.
Religion and The Rule of Law - Course for Government Officials and Religious Leaders (Buddhist, Christian and Islamic)

Religion and the Rule of Law Workshop

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2017.
Religion and the Rule of Law

Could We Be a Post Secular, Please? A Positive Example of Religious Regulation in Croatia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2016.
Freedom of Religion or Belief in Situations of Crisis: Why We Can't Get Along? (BYU and the University of Tartu)

Religion and Law after Post-Communist Yugoslavia

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2016.
University of Veliky Novogrod Presentation and Cooperation Events

From Biblical Law to the Country's Blessed Constitution (Reflections on Croatian Referendum on Marriage)

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2016.
ISORECEA Meeting

Human Rights in Central Asia and Central Europe: Religious Freedom

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2016.
Summer School in Legal Studies: Human Rights in Central Asia and Central Europe

Towards a framework for advancing Freedom of Religion and Beleif

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2016.
OSCE Working Group for Freedom of Religion and Beleif and Security

On Nigeria (Where EU’s views end?), Commentary

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
Europske Studije

Still Fighting God in the Public Arena: Does Europe Pursue the Separation of Religion and State Too Devoutly or Is It Saying It Does Without Really Meaning It?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
BYU Law Review

Architecture and Law: Lawgivers of the US Supreme Court – So, Where is Jesus?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Cambridge University Press

Katubah in Jewish Law

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
Revija za socijalnu politiku

Some views on the Relationships Between the Catholic Church and the State during the Rule of Viceroy Ivan Mažuranić and Today

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Mažuranić, Ana
2015.
Godišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske = Yearbook Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences

Book Review: Leiter, Brian. Why Tolerate Religion?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.

Beyond Nation and Tradition: Traditional Identity Shapes the Law (Working Paper)

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.

Values, Religion, Human Rights and Democracy - Selected Topics

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
III. Congress on Values ; Religion, Human Rights and Democracy (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Croatian Catholic University)

Law and Traditional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
Conference Challenges & Opportunities: Religious Freedom Development in the Sphere of Law at the American University of Armenia

Yes, We Can Work Together! Law and Religious Activism

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.

Lebanon in Bosnia: Disintegrating Nation in Integrated State

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
Faculty and Fellows Colloquium at Northwestern University's Buffet Centre

After the Age of Communism: Religious Life, Law, and National Identity in East and Central Europe

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.
Department of Northwestern University Political Science Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) ; Speaker Series in 'Religion, Law, and Politics

Religious Freedoms and Human Rights

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.

Legal Status of Religious Organizations in the EU

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.

Floods and Saint Joseph of Arimathea

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2015.

European Perspectives on Secularism

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2014.
21st Annual Symposium on Law and Religion: 'Varieties of Secularism, Religion, and the Law' at Brigham Young University

Marriage is Woman and Man: Recent Case of Citizens' Initiative of Changing Croatian Constitution - Should or Should Not We be Going French?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2014.
Conference: Religion, Democracy and Law at London Metropolitan University

Connection Between Law and Religion in the Contemporary World

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2014.
Jean Monnet Speaker Series

Visiting Jean Monnet Lecture, European Secular Identities, Interconnection of Law and Religion In the Modern World

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2014.
Visiting Jean Monnet Lecture, Faculty of Political Science University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law

Juristic Persons in Islamic Law

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2013.
Godišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske = Yearbook Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences

Understanding Criminal Liability of Juristic Persons

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2013.

History of Criminal Corporation in Europe: Before and After IG Farben Case

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2013.
International Spring Course: 'When Corporation Kills - Multifaceted Perspectives on Faceless Crime'

What To Expect from the Law in Complicated Religious and Ethnic Societies?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2013.
Expert Presentation

What to Expect from Laws in Complex Religious and Ethnic Societies?: Insight into Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2013.
Speakers Series and Workshops in Law and Religion

The Attitude of Zagreb Law School Students towards European and International Law

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2012.

Are We Going the Same Way? American and European Perspectives in Fighting Corruption

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Matijević, Marija
2012.
Pravnik : časopis za pravna i društvena pitanja

Exportation of the Idea of Criminal Corporation to Central and Southeast Europe: Absorbing is Done, Try to Squeeze the Spirit

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2012.
The Columbia journal of European law

Ethnicity and Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Peace v Human Rights, An Never ending Story?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2012.
Europolis (Cluj-Napoca)

Criminal Liability of Corporations and Criminal Activities connected with Labor Law Issues

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2011.
Radno pravo

Concept of Autonomous Liability of Legal Person and its Application in Criminal Law

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2011.
Godišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske = Yearbook Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences

Responsibility in the Cockpit or Downtown? How Legal Theory Determines if an Airline Is to be Treated as a Criminal

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2011.
Issues in aviation law and policy

Criminal Liability of Corporations in the System of General Theory of Law and Analysis of Alschuler's Theory

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2011.
Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu

Application of Theoretical Models of Criminal Liability in Croatian and Comparative Law

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2011.

Sejdić and Finci Case: What does it mean for Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2011.
Seminar on the Constitutional Redeisign of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Professor Richard Farkas Project)

How can the Corporation become a Criminal?-Analyzing the Paths towards Corporate Criminal Liability

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2010.

Corporate Criminal Liability Workshop

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2010.
Assistance to Vietnamese Lawyers, Academics and Officials

Liability of Corporations for Criminal Acts Against Free Market Competition

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2009.

Theoretical Models for Applying Criminal Liability towards Companies

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2008.

Hans Kelsen-35 years from departure of one extraordinary jurist

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2008.
Ha-kol : glasilo židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj

Asbestos as Environmental and Legal Issue

Savić, Vanja-Ivan ; Fajković, Hana
2007.
International Conference on International Environmental Law

Conference Overview: "V. International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies-Lawful and Unlawful Violence in Islamic Law and History", Harvard University, September, 2006.

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2007.
Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu

Fundamental questions of Liability of Juristic Persons for Criminal Offences and Finding the Responsible Person Within Corporate Body

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2007.

Effect of Mycosorb on performance and Gumbore vaccination response in broilers fed corn naturally contaminated with deoxynivalenol (DON)

Savic, V. ; Sokolovic, M. ; Balenovic, M. ; Nollet, L.
2006.
12th European Poultry Conference

Criminal Liability of Juristic Persons in Scots Law

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
2005.

Macao - The Road to Unknown

Bajs, Denis ; Savić, Vanja-Ivan
1999.
Pravnik : časopis za pravna i društvena pitanja

Holy See and the Vatican City State

Bajs, Denis ; Savić, Vanja-Ivan
1998.
Pravnik : časopis za pravna i društvena pitanja

AIDS as legal, moral and victimological problem

Savić, Vanja-Ivan
1997.
Pravnik : časopis za pravna i društvena pitanja