Iva Tuhtan Grgić is an Associate Professor at the University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Law, where she teaches Maritime and Transportation Law, Marine Environmental Protection Law, and Administrative Maritime Law. She earned her PhD in Civil Law and Civil Law Procedure from the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Law. She carried out several research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Hamburg, Germany, at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Sapienza University of Rome. She presented her research results at various national and international conferences and round tables. Furthermore, she is the author of a number of publications in the field of civil and maritime law. She was a member of the expert committee for the drafting of the Law on the Maritime Domain and Seaports and acts as an ad hoc legal advisor to the business sector. Since 2024, she has also been a member of the Collision Convention International Working Group of the Comité Maritime International. As a member of research teams, she has worked on several projects dealing with the legal aspects of the transformation of social property, maritime concessions, nautical tourism and the challenges of technological development and globalisation for the transport sector. She is Vice-President of the Croatian Maritime Law Association and a member of the Croatian Comparative Law Association and the Croatian Transport Law Association.