President

Prof. STANIČIĆ, FRANE, PhD (1981)

Judge of the Constitutional Court (7 December 2024 - )
President of the Constitutional Court (13 October 2025 - )

Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, in 2006 where he also obtained his PhD in 2011 with the thesis “Development of the Institute of Expropriation in Croatia”.

He has been employed at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, since 2006, initially as a teaching assistant, then as a senior teaching assistant, assistant professor, associate professor, and since 2022 as full professor at the Chair of Administrative Law.

From 2021 until his appointment as judge of the Constitutional Court he was President of the Study Centre for Public Administration and Public Finances at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, in the capacity of Vice Dean. In the same Faculty, he teaches across several programmes, including Law Studies, Social Work Studies, and the Professional and Specialist Graduate Studies in Public Administration and the Tax Study programme. His main areas of expertise include administrative procedure and litigation, expropriation and other public law limitations on ownership, regulatory agencies, the legal status of religious communities, and so on.

He has been a full member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences (since 2014), a member of the Executive Committee of the Scientific Council for Government Administration, Judicature and the Rule of Law of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) since 2017, a member of the Secretariat of the Institute of Public Administration (since 2013), a member of the Special Expert Commission for the Implementation of the Strategy of Education, Science and Technology (since 2017), and a member of the Examination Commission of the Chamber of Tax Advisors (since 2013). He served as Special Adviser to the Minister of Science and Higher Education (in 2017), and was a member of the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System, the Committee on Legislation of the Croatian Parliament, and several working groups for the drafting of legislation and for state professional examinations in various areas of law. He was a member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Zagreb (2019-2024).

He is the author of four published books, one of which is a university textbook. He is also the author of numerous scientific papers, professional articles, reviews, and other works. He received the Dr. Jadranko Crnić award for a book of significance for the advancement of the legal profession (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Sc. Marko Petrak), entitled The Catholic Church, Religious Communities and the Croatian Legal System (2020).

He jointly led the Croatian-Slovenian bilateral scientific project “Legal Analysis of Existing Energy Legislation in the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia and Recommendations for Improvement” (2018-2019). He has taken part in many scientific research projects both at home and abroad and, together with colleagues from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, designed several lifelong learning programmes approved by the Faculty Council.