Jasna Omejec

Jasna Omejec
President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 June 2008
Preceded by	Petar Klarić
Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 December 1999
Personal details
Born	1962 Osijek, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Alma mater	University of Zagreb University of Osijek

Jasna Omejec (born 1962^[1]) is the President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia.^[2] She graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, in 1985, and gained her LL D in administrative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, in 1994.

Beginning in 1986, Omejec was an assistant lecturer in the Department of Administrative Law, Faculty of Law at University of Osijek, and in 1990 was elected to the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, first as an assistant lecturer and then as senior lecturer, associate professor, and finally full professor at the Department of Administrative Law. At Zagreb, she was a post-graduate lecturer in administrative and political sciences.

Omejec's curriculum vitae includes:

Authorship

• Co-authoring the first Croatian textbook on environmental law in 1997
• Authoring "The Council of Europe and the European Union: Institutional and Legal Framework", in 2008.
• Authoring several papers and articles in the fields of real estate law, citizenship rights, intergovernmental relations between the federal and local Croatian self-government, and electoral law.
• Co-authoring several compendia on constitutional court practice.

Organization Membership

• Croatian lead member of the Statelessness/Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia Project, a part of the UNHCR, in Geneva in 1995.
• Member of the Croatian Government Commission for equality issues in 1998.
• Founder-member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences.
• Member of the Institute for Public Administration in Zagreb.
• Substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) from the Republic of Croatia in 2005; was re-appointed in 2009, and in 2010 was elected a member of the Commission.
• Lecturer in the post-graduate doctoral studies "Public Law and Public Administration", "Administrative Law - National and European Aspect" and "Post-graduate Specialised University Studies of Public Administration" at Zagreb University.
• Post-graduate guest-lecturer in Civil Law at the Faculty of Law; in European Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences; and in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, all at Zagreb University.
• Organizer, lecturer and participant at numerous scientific and professional domestic and international conferences, seminars, and symposiums.

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