Hana Horak, PhD

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Hana Horak, PhD
Name and surname
Hana Horak
Room
B 409
Office Hours
  • Thursday: 10:00 - 12:00
Biography

Career overview:
 
Hana Horak, PHD is a tenured professor at Jean Monnet Chair, Department of Business Law, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb/ Croatia, internationally recognized in academic and professional work. Since 1992 she has been working at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Department of Business Law giving lectures, seminars and practical training in Commercial Law, Law of International Trade, European Market Law, European Company Law and Corporate Governance at undergraduate and graduate studies. She was head of Department, elected in three mandates.  Currently she is member of Faculty Council. Hana is head of postgraduate study „Legal and economic framework of doing business in Europe “and gives lectures at different postgraduate studies in the area of Company Law and Corporate Governance, European and International Law. Hana was Project coordinator and grant holder of TEMPUS project “InterEuLawEast Implementation of European Law Master Studies”, http://iele.weebly.com/) 2013 - 2018, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia.

She has active role in different national and international organizations. In recent years she has been working with national and international organizations, companies and executives advising on legal aspects of commercial law, company law and corporate governance, sustainability and its implementation, including various projects related to this topic. She is registered as a legal consultant at Croatian Bar Association in the field of Commercial and Company Law. Hana is a member in a number of national and international organizations. Actively participating in Special Interest Group Business and Financial Law, European Law Institute and she is also member of Advisory Board, ELI Croatian HUB. During her career she has written and published number of scientific and expert books and papers. Hana is a sought-after speaker, having intervened in various international conferences and round tables in the area of company law and corporate governance. She is Editor in Chief of International Journal East European Law, indexed in Scopus and President of Programme Committee of International Conference on European Company Law and Corporate Governance.  In recent years she has been working with national and international organizations, companies and executives advising on legal aspects of commercial law, company law and corporate governance and its implementation, including various projects related to this topic. Also, she is a member of editorial board of newly established journal European Company Case Law published by Nomos.


Research areas: 

Commercial Law, Company law and Corporate Governance, European Market Law, Sustainability and ESG


External activity: 

Legal consultant registered at Croatian Bar Association in the field of Commercial and Company Law.Member of remuneration and nomination Committee of SPAN, plc. Arbitrator at the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy. President of the ICC Croatia Commission for Corporate Social Responsibility and Anticorruption.Member of Special Interest Group Business and Financial Law, European Law Institute.Guest lecturer at ESG Academy, Croatian Chamber of Commerce.In-house educations in Croatian companies. Guest lecturer at University of Trento Law Faculty and Faculty of Economics


Notable Publications in period 2019-2023:

Horak, Hana; Tomić, Lucia: Directors, information, remuneration and risk management, European company case law, 2 (2023) 2;
Horak, Hana / contributor/ ELI Guidance on Company Capital and Financial Accounting for Corporate Sustainability/ Vienna,
Austria, European law Institut - ELI, 2023.;
Horak, Hana; Šafranko, Zvonimir, Dumančić, Kosjenka ; Preložnjak, Barbara ; Poljanec, Kristijan
: Uvod u trgovačko pravo. Zagreb, Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu; 2022.;
Horak, Hana; Šafranko, Zvonimir :Nove tehnologije i društvena odgovornost trgovačkog društva. Zagreb, HAZU,2022.;
Horak, Hana; Poljanec, Kristijan: Fighting Short-Termism in EU Company Law after the Financial Crisis, European company law 17,2020.;
Poljanec, Kristijan; Horak, Hana: Solvency Test as Yardstick for Prudent Dividend Distribution: A Croatian Outlook// InterEULawEast, 7
2022, 2;