Nina Vajić (born 22 February 1948) is a

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n lawyer and a former

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of the

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in respect of

Early life

Vajić was born on 22 February 1948 in Zagreb, the capital and largest city of

. She studied at the Faculty of Law of the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

from 1966 to 1971, and then worked there as an Instructor until 1978, when she was promoted to Assistant and began a Master's in International Law at the

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(HEI) of the

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Legal career

She was appointed assistant professor at the

in 1985 and associate professor in 1991, at which time she also became Director of the university's Institute of Public and Private International Law. In 1996 became Professor of Public International Law, but only held this post until 1998, when she was elected the first judge in respect of Croatia at the newly established permanent

. In 2013 she was succeeded by

Ksenija Turković Ksenija Turković (born 13 February 1964) is a Croatian jurist and was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Biography Turković graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1987 and became a lecturer at the same university. ...

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Early life

Legal career

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