Josip Kregar (1 January 1953 – 15 August 2020) was a Croatian sociologist, jurist and politician. Kregar was a tenured professor at the
Faculty of Law
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of the
University of Zagreb and an independent member of the
Zagreb Assembly from 2009. Between 2005 and 2009 he was the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb.
Kregar was born in
Ogulin and went to grade school in
Novi Vinodolski
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. He finished gymnasium in
Å ibenik and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1976. He obtained a master's degree in public administration and political science in 1982. From 1986 he worked as a lecturer at the Law Faculty, teaching
sociology of law. In 1991 he obtained a doctorate in law. He had authored and co-authored six books on the subject of law sociology, had participated in several research projects on the topic of public administration and has been a consultant for both the Zagreb city government and the
Croatian Government on these and similar issues. Kregar authored the
Croatian translation of the
European Convention on Human Rights
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.
In 2000 Kregar was appointed interim
mayor of Zagreb
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List
See also
*List of mayors in Croatia
References
External links
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In the
2009 local elections, Kregar organized an independent (non-party) list and achieved substantial success, joining forces with
Velimir Srića (another University of Zagreb professor, from the Faculty of Economics) to win five seats in the city council, as well as having entered the second round of mayoral elections, despite majority support for
Milan Bandić. Kregar received 69,744 votes or 23.18% in the first round, and 88,832 votes or 36.62% in the second round.
On 15 August 2020, Kregar died at his home in Zagreb at age 67.
References
External links
Josip Kregar, CV
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1953 births
Living people
People from Ogulin
Croatian lawyers
Croatian politicians
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb