Vesna Crnić-Grotić, member in respect of Croatia and a former chair of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. She is a professor of International Law and the dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She was the chair of the Main Commission for Law of the National Council for Science in Croatia and the chair of the expert panel for legal science of the Croatian Science Foundation. In 2013 – 2014 she was the Agent for Croatia at the International Court of Justice, Case Concerning the Application of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Croatia v. Serbia). In 2003 and 2012 she was shortlisted as a candidate for the judge of the European Court for Human Rights.