Ana Bobić is the principal investigator of the DFG-funded project ‘Judicial conflict and the reconfiguration of control in the EU constitutional order’ as Senior Researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre. She is the member of the Editorial Board of the Common Market Law Review.
Ana’s current project investigates the constitutional aspects of diverse punishment philosophies in the EU and the interactions between EU and national courts and legislators in this area. As a generalist, her research is on the constitutional theory of the European Union, judicial interactions in the EU, the constitutional implications of the Economic and Monetary Union and central bank independence, and the philosophical aspects of belonging in the European Union. Ana is the author of two books, The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Conflict in the EU (Oxford University Press 2022) and The Individual in the Economic and Monetary Union. A Study of Legal Accountability (Cambridge University Press 2024). Otherwise, she published widely in top journals such as the Common Market Law Review, the European Constitutional Law Review, and the German Law Journal.
Prior to joining Hertie, Ana was référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the cabinet of Advocate General Ćapeta between 2021 and 2024. Until 2021, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the LEVIATHAN Project at the Hertie School. Ana studied at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, where she obtained the MJur as the OSI/University of Oxford scholar in 2012, and the DPhil as a Law Faculty Graduate Assistance Fund scholar in 2018. At Oxford, she was lecturer in Constitutional, Administrative, and EU Law at Keble College and Worcester College.