Siniša Rodin was born in Zagreb where he obtained his law degree from the University of Zagreb in 1987 and continued his university studies in the United States of America, where he obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Michigan in 1992. Returning to Croatia, he continued his studies at University of Zagreb, where he became a Doctor of Laws in 1995. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, USA. He began his professional career in 1987 at University of Zagreb as a tenure track professor. Since 2003, he has been a Professor of EU law at University of Zagreb, where, in 2006, he was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair, of which he became an ad personam holder in 2011. In 2012, he became a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, USA. During his university career, he published numerous works that contributed to the dissemination of EU law in Croatia. Between 2006 and 2011, he was a member of the Croatian team that defined the negotiating framework and the process regarding the accession of Croatia to the European Union whilst also being, from 2009 to 2010, a member of the Croatian Constitutional Amendment Committee and President of the working group on Croatia’s EU membership. He is the first Croatian judge to be appointed at the Court of Justice, and he has served as a Judge at the Court since 4 July 2013.