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Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium

Lebanon in Bosnia: Disintegrating Nation in Integrated State
Vanja-Ivan Savić, Buffett Visiting Scholar

Vanja-Ivan Savić conducts research on law, religion, and cohabitation in complex religious and ethnic societies as a Buffett Center Visiting Scholar. His other areas of expertise include legal theory, theory of law and state, corporate criminal law, and international human rights. He was a British Chevening Scholar at The University of Edinburgh in 2005, an International Fellow at DePaul University's International Human Rights Law Institute in Chicago in 2010, and a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Adelaide Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion in 2013. He attended Harvard University Law School's Program of Instruction for Lawyers and later a conference held at their Islamic Legal Studies Program. He also participated at many religion-themed conferences in Poland, Romania, Croatia, and the United Kingdom. He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb, where he obtained a PhD and two law degrees. He is promoting the development of a law and religion curriculum in his home county Croatia.