Marija Karanikić Mirić is a Full Professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, where she teaches Law of Obligations, Medical Law, and Consumer Law. She also holds a visiting professorship at the Faculty of Legal Sciences, University of Donja Gorica in Montenegro.
Born in 1976 in Belgrade, she completed her primary and secondary education at Marko Orešković Elementary School and the Tenth Belgrade Gymnasium. She enrolled at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1995 and graduated in 1999 with an impressive GPA of 9.70. She began her academic career at the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade and joined the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 2003, progressing to Full Professor in 2019.
As a Ron Brown Scholar, Marija Karanikić Mirić completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Duke University School of Law in the United States. Her research experience includes prestigious institutions such as Trinity College, University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna.
Since 2018, she has served as a judge of the Court of Honor at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, as well as an arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings. She is an active member of various legal organizations and research initiatives. Since 2018, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.
She is one of the founding members of the Association for Banking Law, where she actively contributes to the development of legal regulations and the improvement of banking law practices.