Dr Ana Keglević Steffek

Ana is a Senior Lecturer in Law. She specialises in commercial and contract law (including European, international and transnational aspects), consumer law, insurance law, comparative law, e-commerce and digital market, arbitration and ADR.

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Background

Ana joined Anglia Ruskin University in July 2016 from the University of Zagreb where she was a Senior Lecturer and a Faculty Member since 2006. She has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford (IECL), UNIDROIT (Rome), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg), the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London). Before her academic career she was an attorney at law advising on international commercial law, company law and contract law and served as Assistant to the Secretary General of the Croatian Permanent Arbitration Court and Mediation Centre.

She is a Council Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) in Vienna, the Secretary of the Consumer Protection and Dispute Resolution Working Party of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA) and a Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Croatian Association (IACL). She is also a Founding Member of the Croatian Insurance Law Association and serves on its Council and Projects Committee. Ana is engaged in a number of EU Commission and World Bank funded scientific projects and is an arbitrator at the Croatian Permanent Arbitration Court and Mediation Centre.

Research interests

• Commercial and contract law (including European, international and transnational aspects)
• Consumer law
• Insurance law, in particular European insurance contract law
• Comparative law
• E-commerce and digital (single) market
• Tort law
• Business law
• Commercial arbitration and ADR

Areas of research supervision

• European contract law
• Insurance contract law
• Consumer law
• Commercial arbitration

Qualifications

• PhD in Law, University of Zagreb
• LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law, CCLS, Queen Mary, University of London
• LLB and LLM, University of Zagreb
• BA in Movie and Theatre Production, University of Zagreb, Academy of Dramatic Art
• Bar exam, Croatian Ministry of Justice  (qualified attorney at law)

Memberships, editorial boards

• Council Member, European Law Institute (ELI)
• Member, Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
• Member, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)
• Member, International Academy of Comparative Law, Croatian Association (IACL)
• Executive Committee Member, Croatian Insurance Law Association (AIDA Croatia)

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Roadmap to European Effective Justice (RE-Jus) (co-investigator/partner), European Commission, DJ Justice (2016–2018)
• Civil Law Protection of Citizens in Financial Crisis – CitProtect (co-investigator), University of Zagreb, National Foundation for Science (2015–2018)
• Pilot Study on the Functioning of the National Judicial Systems for the Application of Consumer Protection Law (co-investigator), expert study for the European Commission, Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services (2014)
• Croatian Private Law as the 28th Private Law Regime of the European Union (co-investigator), University of Zagreb, National Foundation for Science (2014)
• Current Arrangements in Central and Eastern Europe: Resolving Disputes between Consumers and Financial Business (contributing author), expert study for the World Bank, Global Program on Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, The World Bank (2012)

Selected recent publications

Keglević, A., 2016. Insurance Contract Law – Duty of Disclosure and Consumer protection from a European and Comparative Perspective (monography, in Croatian). Zagreb: Školska Knjiga.

Keglević, A., 2015. Disgorgement of Profits in Croatian Law. In: Hondius, E., Janssen, A. (Eds.). Disgorgement of Profits – Gain-Based Remedies throughout the World. Vienna: Springer, pp. 371–392.

Keglević, A., 2014. Pilot Study on the Functioning of the National Judicial Systems for the Application of Consumer Protection Law Rules (contributing author): an expert study for the European Commission. London: Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services.

Keglević, A., 2013. Pre-Contractual Information Duty and Unfair Contract Terms. In: Unan, S. (Ed.). Insurer’s Pre-contractual Information Duty. Turkey: AIDA, pp. 77–100.

Keglević, A., 2013. Croatian Insurance Law on the Eve of the Croatian Accession to the EU. Vienna: Insurance Law Review (Versicherungsrundschau), 6, pp. 32

Keglević, A. 2012. Current Arrangements in Central and Eastern Europe: Resolving Disputes between Consumers and Financial Business (contributing author): an expert study for The World Bank. Global Program on Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, The World Bank.

Keglević, A., 2009. What do Parties and Arbitrators Owe to Each Other?. In: Uzelac, A., Van Rhee, R. (Eds.). Access to Justice and the Judiciary, Towards New European Standards of Affordability, Quality and Efficiency of Civil Adjudication. Antwerp, Oxford, Portland: Intersentia, pp. 187–210.

Keglević, A., Uzelac, A., 2005. Arbitration in Croatia. In: Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Zentraleuropa/Arbitration in Central Europe. Wien: Institut für Zivilverfahrensrecht, Universität Wien, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (NWV), Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (BWV), pp. 131–252.

Full List of Publications (pdf)

Recent presentations and conferences

Keglević, A., 2016. Digital Single Market – Consumer Remedies for the Lack of Conformity in the On-line Sale of Goods. International Scientific Conference: Consumer Protection and On-line Trading. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana.

Keglević, A., 2015. Solvency II and Consumer Protection: An EU Perspective.  Copenhagen: AIDA Europe Conference.

Keglević, A., 2015. Disgorgement of Profits in Domestic, International and Transnational Law. Rome: UNIDROIT Institute.

Keglević, A., 2015. The EU Insurance Market and the Development of European Insurance Contract Law. Skopje: Seminar on Insurance Law, EIPA Luxemburg/RM – Academy for the Training of the Judges and Public Prosecutors of Macedonia.

Keglević, A., 2015. Case Study: The Influence of CJEU Insurance Case Law on Domestic Jurisprudence. Skopje: Seminar on Insurance Law, EIPA Luxembourg/RM – Academy for the Training of Judges and Public Prosecutors of Macedonia.

Keglević, A., 2014. Recent CJEU Case Law on Insurance. Trier: Annual Conference on European Insurance Law, ERA.

Keglević, A., 2014. On-line Insurance. Rome:  AIDA World Plenary Session, AIDA XIV World Congress.

Keglević, A., 2014. Disgorgement of Profits in Croatian Law. Vienna: Congress of the International Academy for Comparative Law.