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Slobodan Ka\u0161tela<\/strong> was born in Novigrad ( Dalmatia ) on 13 September 1941 . Since 1946, he has been living in Zagreb, where he finished elementary school, grammar school and the study of law at the Faculty of Law, from which he received his bachelor’s degree in 1964.<\/p>\n He passed his bar examination in 1967. After having completed the Graduate Scientific Programme in Economic Development Policy, he received his master’s degree in 1991 from the Zagreb Graduate School of Economics and Business. In 1992, he was appointed teaching assistant, and in 1998, he was promoted to the post of lecturer. He received his doctor\u2019s degree from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in July 2000. In 2001, he was appointed assistant professor at the same Faculty, and in 2004, he was promoted to the post of associate professor.<\/p>\n Professional career so far<\/p>\n Since 1993 to 2011 was active as fellow at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering<\/p>\n In addition to active teaching, since 1999, S. Ka\u0161tela has been permanently involved as researcher in the research projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports.<\/p>\n S. Ka\u0161tela has been awarded two medals and several other certificates of merit for his active work in the society.<\/p>\n Membership:<\/p>\n In performing the duties of the Secretary of the CroatianAcademyof Sciences and Arts, S. Ka\u0161tela has proven himself to be an excellent legal mind as well as a successful organiser and co-ordinator of the Academy\u2019s extremely complex tasks; hence, the Presidency of the Academy chose to repeatedly appoint him to the same post seven times.<\/p>\n In the very beginnings of his scientific research, S. Ka\u0161tela had mostly dealt with the issues regarding the legal and economic sciences; in the last decade, however, his main interest became the issues regarding traffic law, particularly air traffic law.<\/p>\n In 1991, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts published a book by S. Ka\u0161tela entitled Ekonomska znanost u radovima Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti (The Economic Science in the Works of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts).<\/p>\n In 1998, students\u2019 textbook entitled Osnove zra\u010dnog prava (The ABCs of Air Law) was published in co-authorship for the needs of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering. The part of the textbook addressing air law was written by S. Ka\u0161tela. Furthermore, in 2001, students\u2019 textbook entitled Zra\u010dno prometno pravo (Air Traffic Law) and written by a single author, S. Ka\u0161tela, was published. This textbook is intended for both undergraduate and graduate students. Moreover, in 2005, the book entitledFran Vrbani\u0107 Ekonomski spisi (Fran Vrbani\u0107 Economic Writings), for which S. Ka\u0161tela had written an extensive study enriched by footnotes and bibliography, was published.<\/p>\n In addition to the already mentioned books and textbooks, by the end of 2005, S. Ka\u0161tela has published 26 scientific papers and several dozens research papers. Being active for a number of years at the Parliamentary Council for Tourism and Traffic, he participated in the drafting of Croatia\u2019s first Hospitality and Tourism Sectors Act (published in the Narodne novine \u2013 Official Journal), for which Act he, on two occasions, wrote expert commentaries.<\/p>\n As president of the Organisation Committee, S. Ka\u0161tela was the head organiser of a major international scientific symposium entitled Traffic Links Between Croatia and the European Countries Encouraging the Social, Economic and Cultural Development of the Northwest Croatia, which was held in Vara\u017edin in November 2005.<\/p>\n He reviewed two books and three textbooks as well as several projects referred (for funding reasons) to the Ministry of Science and Technology. He furthermore either edited or co-edited eight books that were published by the CroatianAcademyof Sciences and Arts.<\/p>\n Slobodan Ka\u0161tela is an associate of the Miroslav Krle\u017ea Lexicographic Institute.<\/p>\n\n
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