Speakers International Conference on Human Rights and Environmental Protection

Ksenija Turkovic is a judge and section president at the European Court of Human Rights. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (1987), holds an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School. She worked as Legal Counsel for Hunton & Williams (New York) and was Associate in General Corporate Practice, Sullivan & Cromwell (New York). Since 1987 she has been lecturing on criminal law, criminology, victimology and health law at the University of Zagreb and she became full professor in 2008. She was a head of the expert team drafting new Croatian Criminal Code (2009-2012). She published four textbooks (co-author), three books (editor with contribution), one law commentary (principal author) and over 50 papers in international and domestic journals in the areas of criminal law, medical law and ethics, criminology, victimology and human rights.