Prof. dr. sc. Dorotea Ćorić was born in Zadar in 1961. She graduated in law in 1984 at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (Croatia) where she also obtained her LL.M. degree in 1992. She obtained her Ph. D. in 2001 at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. Prof. Ćorić passed the bar exam in 1987 after three years of training in a law office. From 1989 to 2002 she was employed as a research fellow at the Adriatic Instituite of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She currently works at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka where she is afull professor and head of the Department for Maritime and Transport Law. She teaches courses in Maritime and Transport Law, Marine Environment Protection Law, and Maritime Administrative Law. Prof. Ćorić was a member of the Expert Working Group for drafting the 1994 and 2004 versions of the Croatian Maritime Code and its amendments. She is a consultant of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure for international maritime agreements. She is assistant editor of the Comparative Maritime Law journal and vice-president of the Croatian Maritime Law Association. Professor Ćorić has published many academic and professional articles in the domain of maritime and transport law and is the author of the books INTERNATIONAL REGIME ON LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION FOR OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE, published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Adriatic Institute in 2002, and MARINE POLLUTION FROM SHIP’S – International and National Law Rules, published by the Faculty of Law Rijeka in 2009.
