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ACTA DIURNA
Un i v e r s it y of B e l g r a d e Fa c u lt y of L aw Ne w s l e tt e r
No. 4 , O c t o b e r – D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 9
140th anniversary of the birth of
Slobodan Jovanovic
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opportunity to remind us of some of
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2009 – Slobodan Jovanovic’s birthday,
by Vice Dean Prof. Dr. Zika Bujuklic.
Following a speech by Prof. Dr. Jovica
Trkulja, the audience was addressed
by Mr. Djordje Pavlovic, a relative of
Slobodan Jovanovic, due to the kindness of whom the exhibition organizers were allowed access to the rich
archives of the Pavlovic family.
Events marking the 140th anniversary of Slobodan Jovanovic’s birth
included the presentation of the
book “Slobodan Jovanovic: Reflections of His Contemporaries”, which
took place on December 8, 2009.
The book, edited by Prof. Dr. Jovica
Trkulja and Mr. Marinko Vucinic,
comprises reviews and letters written
on different occasions between 1902
and 1958 by eminent historians, philosophers, diplomats, and politicians
who were dedicated to analysis and
theoretical research of the works of
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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. dr. Đorđe Ignjatović
Managing Editors
Ljubinka Kovačević,
Ljiljana Marić
Prepared and Printed by
Dosije studio
If there is an article or photograph that
you would suggest to be included in
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Kovačević at [email protected], or
contact Ljiljana Marić for the activities
of a certain month until the end of that
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Exhibited items included first and rare editions of Jovanovic’s books carefully preserved
within the Law Faculty’s library
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Publisher
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law
For Publisher
Prof. dr. Mirko Vasiljević
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140th anniversary of the birth of Slobodan Jovanovic
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Honouring Russian professors who taught at our faculty
from 1919 to 1950
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Faculty of Law students’ new success in FDI Moot Competition
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Faculty of Law – first higher education institution in Serbia to provide
scholarships for its students
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Academic year 2009–2010 officially opened at all study programmes
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Faculty’s Publishing Centre at the 54th International Belgrade Book Fair
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New Courses
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Seminar Marks 30th Anniversary of the Adoption of UN Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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Lecture on the occasion of 200 years of the institution of
Ombudsman in the world
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Seminar to honour Dr.Thomas Meyer
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Scholarly and professional gatherings and lectures abroad
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Honours and Awards
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Professional development abroad
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Cooperation with other national and foreign faculties
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Publishing activity
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Students activities
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Honouring Russian professors who taught at our
faculty from 1919 to 1950
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s an expression of gratitude
to Russian professors for their
contribution to the advancement of
scientific thought and the reputation
of the Faculty of Law”– these are the
words written above the names of 12
Russian professors on the commemorative plaque unveiled on December
10, 2009 at the Law Faculty. The ceremony was held in the presence of a
large number of guests, professors, associates, and students of the Faculty.
The plaque was unveiled by H.E. Ambassador of the Russian Federation
to Serbia, Mr. Alexander Vasilevich
Konuzin, and the Dean of the Faculty
of Law, Prof. Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic.
Ambassador Konuzin pointed out
that this event was yet another important link in centuries-long friendly
cooperation between Russia and Serbia. Both Dean Mirko Vasiljevic, and
Prof. Dr. Sima Avramovic, in their respective speeches, made the point that
in this way the Faculty of Law wanted
to pay a debt of gratitude to Russian
intellectuals, our professors, and also
Commemorative plaque was unveiled by H.E. Ambassador Mr. A. V. Konuzin, and the
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Dr. M. Vasiljevic.
to remember the overall scientific,
cultural, and spiritual influence of the
Russian intelligence on Serbia after
the First World War.n
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Faculty of Law students’ new success in
FDI Moot Competition
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ur faculty team comprising students Marija Skundric and Velimir Zivkovic, won the third place at
the 2009 Foreign Direct Investment
International Moot Competition, held
within the Frankfurt International
Arbitration Center (FIAC) facilities
on October 22–24. Marija Skundric
also shared the 2009 Thomas Waelde
Advocacy Prize, competing with other
90 participants. Thanks to her, as well
as the outstanding performance of the
other member of our team, Velimir
Zivkovic, our faculty was the highest
ranked participant at the preliminary
rounds. However, the arbitrators’ decision in semi-finals was in favour
of the American Pepperdine University Law School, which also won the
2009 FDI Moot final. Our students
Our students with the King’s College London team
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were prepared for this competition by
Ugljesa Grusic and Marko Jovanovic,
our faculty teaching assistants, while
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Pavic and Milena
Djordjevic, Teaching Assistant, took
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part in the FDI Moot Competition as
arbitrators. The 2009 Foreign Direct
Investment International Moot Competition was organized by the German
Institution for Arbitration (Deutsche
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Institution for Schiedgerichtsbarkeit
– DIS), Centre for International Legal
Studies and Suffolk University Law
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Faculty of Law – first higher education institution
in Serbia to provide scholarships for its students
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s of 2009–2010, the Faculty of
Law will be providing scholarships for its 80 low-income undergraduate and master students. In
this way, our faculty has become the
first among higher education institutions in Serbia using its own funds
to provide scholarships for its students. Contracts were presented to
the scholarship recipients in the Faculty’s conference hall on December
1, 2009. The ceremony was opened
by Prof.Dr.Mirko Vasiljevic, Dean
of the Law Faculty. Mr.Zarko Obradovic, Serbia’s Education Minister, and Prof. Dr. Neda Bokan, Vice
Rector of the University of Belgrade,
congratulated the students who received the first scholarships.n
Scholarship presentation ceremony
Academic year 2009–2010 officially opened
at all study programmes
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he opening ceremony of the
2009–2010 academic year for undergraduate students was held in the
“Radomir Lukic” amphitheatre on
October 1, 2009. The ceremony organized to welcome over 1500 newly
enrolled students was attended by
various renowned guests. The students were welcomed to the higher
education environment by Justice
Minister Snezana Malovic, Education
Minister Zarko Obradovic, Faculty of
Law Dean Prof. Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic,
and Student Vice Dean Filip Bojic.
The academic year 2009–2010 master’s degree programme was officially
opened in the “Toma Zivanovic” amphitheatre on October 26, 2009. Prof.
Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic, Faculty of Law
Dean, Prof. Dr. Zika Bujuklic, Vice
Dean for Curricula, and Prof. Dr. Oliver Antic, Head of Master Studies,
gave the opening remarks and welcomed students, presenting the basic outline of the study programmes,
as well as the students’ rights and
duties.
Master in European Integration
Programme was opened on November 2, 2009. The opening address on
behalf of the Faculty’s governing body
was delivered by Prof. Dr. Zika Bujuklic, Vice Dean for Curricula. Students were then welcomed by Prof.
Dr. Dragica Vujadinovic, Head of this
master programme which is taught
in English. Courses encompass Public and Private Law fields, as well as
economic, political and sociological
aspects of the European Union.
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Welcoming new generation of undergraduate students
The opening ceremony of the doctoral studies in the 2009–2010 academic year was held on November
2, 2009. Thirty-four students who
enrolled in doctoral-level courses
were welcomed by Prof. Dr. Mirko
Vasiljevic, Dean of the Faculty of Law,
Prof. Dr. Gaso Knezevic, Head of
Doctoral Studies, and Prof. Dr. Zika
Bujuklic, Vice Dean.
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The Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade annually offers
professional development continuing
education programmes in various legal areas. The programme aimed at
improving professional knowledge of
notaries public is organized for the
seventh year in a row. The courses
started on October 16, with 39 students attending them this year. Prof.
Dr. Dragor Hiber is the Head of the
programme, while Prof. Dr. Mirko
Vasiljevic is its Coordinator.
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The Professional Development
Programme on the issues of terrorism, organized crime and corruption
was opened on November 25, 2009,
fourth year in a row. The students
were addressed by the programme coordinators Prof. Dr. Zoran Stojanovic,
and Prof. Dr. Djordje Ignjatovic, both
full professors at the Faculty of Law,
as well as Dr. Dragan Simeunovic,
Full Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, and Dr. Goran Ilic,
Associate Professor at the Faculty of
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Faculty’s Publishing Centre at the 54th International Belgrade Book Fair
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he University of Belgrade Law
Faculty participated for the third
time at the International Belgrade
Book Fair which took place from Oc-
tober 26 to November 2, 2009, bringing together some 800 exhibitors and
more than 150,000 visitors. At this
54th book fair, the Faculty of Law had
its own stand where its publications
were daily advertised and presented
and their authors were present, which
drew much attention from visitors.
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The central promotional event of the
Publishing and Information Centre took place on October 30, 2009,
which boasted the presence and participation of the Law Faculty Dean,
Prof. Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic, Mr. Slobodan Gavrilovic, “The Official Gazette”
Manager, Prof. Dr. Jovan Arandjelovic, Consulting Editor of The Collected Works of Mihailo Djuric in
12 books, Prof. Dr. Sima Avramovic,
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Annals
of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, and
Prof. Dr. Jovica Trkulja, the Publishing Centre’s Manager.n
The Publishing Centre’s bookstand at the 54th Book Fair
New Courses
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A
course on Comparative Environmental law, taught by the
Visiting Professor Neil Mitchell (Neil
R. Mitchell, B.S. Ch.E., J.D., Texas, Illinois, Michigen, American and International Bar Associations, American
Chemical Society), was held at the
Faculty of Law in November, 2009.
The course was organized by Prof.
Dr. Stevan Lilic, in cooperation with
his colleagues at the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg,
Austria (www.cils.org), and it was attended by 22 students.
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An optional course on the Internet
Law, held during the winter semester, was opened by Professor Thomas
Koenig from the Northeastern University of Boston through an internetdelivered video lecture in the Faculty’s
conference room, fully equipped with
state-of-the-art technology. Lectures
were delivered by a number of our
faculty members, including professors and teaching assistants, as well as
by internet law attorneys.
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Comparative Environmental Law course attendants with
Professors Neil Mitchell and Stevan Lilic
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As of November 23, 2009, a Comparative Constitutional Law course
has been held as an additional course
within the European Integration mas-
ter’s programme. It was taught by
Prof. Thomas Fleiner, Dr.ius., Professor Emeritus of the Fribourg University, Switzerland, and foreign member
of the Serbian Academy of Sciences
and Art, as well as by Prof. Lidija Bas-
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ta Fleiner, Ph.D., former University
of Fribourg Professor and Permanent
Guest Professor of the Political Science Faculty of Belgrade. The course
attracted not only this and last-year
European Integration master’s programme students, but Constitutional
Law doctoral programme students as
well.n
Attendants of the Comparative Constitutional Law course with
Prof. Dr. D. Vujadinovic and Prof. T. Fleiner, Dr. ius.
Seminar marks 30th anniversary of the adoption
of UN Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women
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he University of Belgrade Law
Faculty, in cooperation with UN
agencies and financially supported by
the European Commission, organized
on December 21 a seminar dedicated
to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, aimed at marking 30
years since the adoption of this im-
portant convention. Prof. Dr. Dragica
Vujadinovic, the meeting’s moderator,
pointed out in her opening speech
that Gender Studies were introduced
at our faculty last year. Birna Thorarinsdottir (UNIFEM) focused on the
international framework for women’s
human rights, while a number of domestic experts in women’s human
rights tackled various topics, ranging from analyses of the text of the
Convention to the role of Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to the issues of
domestic violence, stereotyping, and
double discrimination.n
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Lecture on the occasion of 200 years of the
institution of Ombudsman in the world
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n December 23, 2009, a lecture
“The Institution of Ombudsman in the Republic of Serbia – Experiences and Challenges” was delivered at the Faculty of Law in order to
mark 200 years since the establishing
of the institution of ombudsman in
the world. On behalf of the Faculty
management team, the audience was
addressed by Vice Dean, Assistant
Prof. Dr. Marko Djurdjevic, while
Assistant Prof. Dr. Marko Davinic,
who opened the meeting, spoke
about the history of the institution
of ombudsman which originated
in Sweden in 1809, its spreading to
other European and world countries, and various forms of ombudsman institutions in comparative systems and our country. The meeting
also featured as speakers Mr. Sasa
Jankovic, first Protector of Citizens/
Ombudsman in Serbia, Belgrade’s
Ombudsman Dusanka Gacesa, and
Belgrade University Ombudsman
Assistant Prof. Dr. Branko Rakic.
Discussion followed and numerous
questions posed by Law Faculty professors and students were thoroughly
answered by the guest speakers.n
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Seminar to honour Dr. Thomas Meyer
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n December 6, 2009, the University of Belgrade’s Law Faculty, in
cooperation with the Association of
Jurists of Serbia, hosted a two-hour
seminar in honour of Dr. Thomas
Meyer, Head of the GTZ Legal Reform Project for SEE, so as to mark
his successful career and long-standing cooperation with colleagues and
institutions within the Region, temporarily wound up at the end of 2009.
It was an opportunity for Dr. Meyer’s
closest colleagues to evaluate his work
in Serbia, as well as for the promotion of two collections of his works
– “The Spirit of Change, Reflections
on Civil Law Reform”, published by
the Faculty of Law, and “Liber Amicorum Thomas Meyer” published by
the Kopaonik School of Natural Law
and the Association of Jurists of Serbia. Although it was held on Sunday,
the seminar gathered a large number
of jurists from Belgrade and Serbia,
as well as professors and fellows from
law faculties of Podgorica Sarajevo,
Zagreb, Skopje and Tirana. The opening addresses were given by Prof. Dr.
Mirko Vasiljevic, Dean of the Faculty
of Law, and Prof. Dr. Slobodan Perovic, Editor-in-Chief of the Kopaonik
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At the seminar honouring Dr. Thomas Meyer
Scholarly and professional gatherings
and lectures abroad
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he Sixth Jurists’ Symposium was
held at the Faculty of Law of Banja Luka on October 1–2, 2009. The
conference was attended by Prof. Dr.
Mirko Vasiljevic and Prof. Dr. Zika
Bujuklic, Dean and Vice Dean of the
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Law Faculty of Belgrade respectively,
as well as by professors Dr. Slobodan
Perovic, Dr. Momor Milojevic and Dr.
Jovica Trkulja.
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Teaching Assistant Milena Djordjevic, LL.M., participated at international conference on arbitration
law: “The Perfect Arbitration”, organized by the International Commerce
Chamber in London on October 21,
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2009. On this occasion, Ms. Milena
Djordjevic also visited her colleagues
at the Queen Mary School of Law in
London, involved with our Faculty of
Law in a two-year cooperation project
of translating Serbian court and arbitration decisions into English.
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At the invitation of the European
Federation of Public Service Employees (EUROFEDOP), on October
22–24, Prof. Dr. Branko Lubarda took
part in a conference which was held
in Bratislava and focused on „The
(added) value of public services in a
time of economic crisis – The Lisbon
strategy”. He presented his paper on
codes of behaviour and the influence
of economic crisis.
At the invitation of the Kokkalis
Foundation, Prof. Dr. Boris Begovic
delivered a lecture titled “Corruption, Lobbying and State Capture:
Comparative Analysis of Welfare Effects” at the Harvard University JFK
School of Government on November
2, 2009.
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At the invitation of Dr. Marc Plattner, Prof. Dr. Boris Begovic delivered
a lecture on the “Influence of the Fi-
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On November 12, 2009, Dr. Dusan
Popovic, Assistant Professor, delivered
a lecture on the “Relationship between
Competition Law and Electronic
Communications Law: Between the
Control of Competition and the Introducing of Competition” in Paris to
members of the Center for Bussiness
Law and Economic Disputes.
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Prof. Dr. Boris Begovic took part in
a conference on “Improving the Quality of Democratic Governance and
Economic Growth”, which was organized by the Center for International
Private Enterprise and held in Washington, D.C. on October 27, 2009. Professor Begovic presented his comments
on the paper titled “What Is a Market
Economy and How Does It Work?”
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held on November 5–6, 2009. Milena
Djordjevic, LL.M. presented the paper
titled Some issues regarding application and interpretation of the CISG in
Serbian arbitral practice co-authored
with Prof. Dr. Vladimir Pavic.
On October 29, Prof. Dr. Boris
Begovic gave a lecture at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International
Studies at Stanford University at the
invitation of Professor Larry Diamond. The lecture titled “Democracy, Compulsory Redistribution and
Economic Growth” was a review of
preliminary theoretical results of his
latest research.
Teaching Assistant Marko Jovanovic participated in the international Investment Law conference held in
Frankfurt on October 22, 2009. The
conference was organized by the German Arbitration Institution (DIS) and
hosted by the Frankfurt International
Arbitration center.
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nancial Crisis on the Economies of
Central and Eastern European Countries” at the International Forum for
Democratic Studies in Washington,
D.C. on October 28, 2009. Professor
Mitchell Orenstein from Johns Hopkins University presented comments
on his paper.
An exhibition called “The Road to
Higher Education”, which took place
at the University Library of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka on
October 22, 2009, was coorganized
by the “Dositej Obradovic” Foundation and the Publication Centre of
the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. The
exhibition was opened by Dr. Zoran
Mirkovic, Professor of the Faculty of
Law in Belgrade.
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On November 2 and 3, 2009, Dr.
Dusan Popovic, Assistant Professor,
delivered lectures at the University
of Szeged Master Studies Programme
co-organized with Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. The lectures focused
on harmonization of the national law
with the EU law.
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Teaching Assistant Milos Zivkovic took part in the Seventh Session
of the Roundtable “Flexibilität, Sicherheit und Effizienz der Grudpfandrechte in Europa”, organized by the
Association of German Pfandbrief
Banks (Verband Deutscher Pfandbriefbanken, VDP) and held in Berlin on
November 5 and 6, 2009.
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Teaching Assistant Milena Djordjevic participated in an international
congress on Contract Law and International Commercial Arbitration
organized by the La Rioja University
Law Faculty in Logroña, Spain, and
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Prof. Dr. Zoran Mirkovic, representing the Faculty of Law, delivered
a lecture on Dositej Obradovic and
the Belgrade Higher School (1808–
1813) at an event celebrating Dositej’s
lecturing at the Evangelical Lyceum
in Modro, Slovakia. The event took
place on November 19, 2009, and
was organized and cosponsored by
Serbia’s Ambassador to Slovakia, Mr.
Danko Prokic, and the Dositej Obradovic Foundation.
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On November 16, Prof. Dr. Boris
Begovic was one of three opening speakers at the conference titled
“Twenty Years since the Fall of the
Berlin Wall: What Have We Learned
for Future Reforms”, coorganized by
the Center for International Private
Enterprise (U.S.A.) and the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political
Research. On the second day of the
conference, Professor Begovic delivered a speech on “Eleven Myths about
Corruption”.
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Serbia’s Ambassador to the United
Kingdom, our faculty member Professor Dejan Popovic, held a lecture
at the Belliol College, University of
Oxford, on November 26, 2009. After
the lecture on “European Traditions
and Prospects of Serbia”, attentively
followed and discussed by students of
this leading world university, Ambassador Popovic was invited to a dinner
at the Hall of the College, attended by
members of the faculty.
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Honours and Awards
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t a ceremony organized during
the 54th Belgrade International
Book Fair on October 27, 2009, the
University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Law
was presented a Certificate of Appreciation for successful collaboration by
the “Official gazette”. On behalf of our
faculty, the Certificate was received by
Vice Dean for Curricula Prof. Dr. Zika
Bujuklic.
our professors with long-standing experience in arbitration, such as Prof.
Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic, Prof. Dr. Vesna
Besarovic, Prof. Dr. Dragor Hiber, and
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Pavic, but Assistant Professor Dr. Marko Djurdjevic,
Assistant Professor, Dr. Vuk Radovic,
Teaching Assistant Milos Zivkovic,
LL.M., and Teaching Assistant Milena
Djordjevic, LL.M., as well.
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The “Miodrag Jovicic” Fund Board,
installed in 2000 in order to preserve
the memory of late Academician Miodrag Jovicic and enhance research in
his scientific areas of expertise, organized a ceremony at which the 2009
award was given to Dr. Budimir Kosutic, Full Professor of the University of
Belgrade Law Faculty. The ceremony
took place on October 16, 2009, when
the Laureate delivered a lecture themed
“Europeization of the Word Constitution and its Contradictions”.
Dr. Tatjana Jovanic, Assistant Professor, has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of Regulatory Law Review (Revue du Droit de la
Régulation), a new international law
journal the first number of which is
expected in the first quarter of 2010.
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Professor of the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Law Dr. Mirko
Vasiljevic, has been elected a member
of the Republic of Srpska’s Academy
of Arts and Sciences. On that occasion, Professor Vasiljevic delivered a
speech on “Law, Justice, and Economy” in the Festive Hall of Banski dvor
in Banja Luka on October 22, 2009.
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At the University of Belgrade
Council’s meeting held on December 8, 2009, Dr. Sima Avramovic, Full
Professor of the Faculty of Law, was
elected president of the University
Council.
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Prof. Dr. Gaso Knezevic was elected Chairman of the Foreign Trade
Court of Arbitration at the Serbian
Chamber of Commerce for the second time in a row at the Chamber’s
Assembly session on December 23,
2009. On the same occasion, a new list
of the Court’s arbitrators was accepted, comprising not only the names of
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The Law Faculty’s Moot-Court
Centre has been receiving a large
number of letters and expressions of
approval and praise from their foreign
colleagues regarding the organization
of the arbitration conference, and the
Belgrade Open Pre-Moot Competition, which both took place in March,
2009. One of such letters was published in the Center for International
Legal Education’s journal at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
(www.law.pitt.edu/files/attached/cile/
CILEnotes2009Final.pdf, p. 2), in October, 2009. It is a new recognition
for our faculty’s endeavours and work
aimed at improving this subject-matter programme, preparing students for
international competitions in this area,
and organizing seminars and conferences on Arbitration Law.n
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Professional development abroad
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eaching Assistant, Svetislava Bulajic, LL.M., has won, among 745
applicants, the European Commission’s scholarship for one-month academics exchange programme involving eight European and 12 Western
Balkans universities (Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation, Basileus
– Balkans Academic Scheme for the
Internationalisation of Learning in
cooperation with EU universities).
Ms. Bulajic spent the month of October, 2009, at the Sapienza University
of Rome where, in collaboration with
Prof. Dr. Fulco Lanchester and Prof.
Dr. Fernanda Bruno, she prepared
and taught a short course on Constitutional Developments in Western
Balkans for PhD students of the Sa-
pienza University Faculty of Political
Sciences.
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Prof. Dr. Zoran Mirkovic visited
the Free University of Berlin from November 22 through 29, 2009, within
the academic exchange programme.n
Cooperation with other national and
foreign faculties
P
rof. Dr. Arturo Molina Gutiérrez,
Head of the Mexico City Campus
of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, one of
the most renowned Latin American
universities, visited our faculty on October 5, 2009, accompanied by Serbia’s
Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Zoran
Stanojevic. The guests were received
by Dean Prof. Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic,
and Vice Dean for Curricula, Prof. Dr.
Zika Bujuklic.
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Participants of a joint Tempus
project (Master Programme in Intellectual Property Law) from Skopje
and Belgrade, met at the Faculty of
Law on October 21, 2009. On behalf
of the grant-holder, University of
Skopje Law Faculty, the meeting was
attended by Prof. Dr. Mirjana Polenak
and Assistant Professor Dr. Goce
Naumovski, while the University of
Belgrade’s Faculty of Law was represented by Prof.Dr.Vesna Besarovic,
Prof. Dr. Slobodan Markovic, and Assistant Professor Dr. Dusan Popovic.
The guests also met separately with
Vice Dean Prof. Dr. Zika Bujuklic.
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At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Rajko
Pirnat, Dean of the Faculty of Law
at the University of Ljubljana, Prof.
Dr. Dragan M. Mitrovic visited the
capital of Slovenia from December
16 through 18, 2009, where he rep-
resented the University of Belgrade
Faculty of Law at a celebration of the
90th anniversary of that university.
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Since last November, Dr.Dragor
Hiber, Full Professor at the Faculty
of Law in Belgrade, and Teaching Assistant Milos Zivkovic, LL.M., have
been teaching a course of the International Master Programme in Land
Management at the Faculty of Civil
Engineering in Belgrade. The master programme, based on a Tempus
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Publishing activities
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he last quarter of 2009 was
marked with a number of new
titles published within various library
registers and editions by the Law
Faculty’s Publishing and Information Centre. The “Textbook” section
(“Udžbenici”) received six new titles:
Trade Law, Eleventh revised edition,
by Prof. Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic; Company Law, Fourth edition, by Prof.
Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic; Civil Procedural
Law, Third revised and enlarged edition, by Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jaksic;
Criminal Procedural Law, by Prof.
Dr. Milan Skulic; The Law of Obligations, Fourth edition, by Prof. Dr. Oliver Antic; Family Law and Children’s
Rights, Fifth edition, by Prof. Dr.
Marija Draskic.
The
“Monographs”
library
(“Monografije
g j ”) was enlarged by:
Fault-Based Liability in the Law of
Delict, by Assistant Professor Dr.
Marija Karanikic Miric; The Spirit of
Change. Reflections on Civil Law Reform, by Dr. Thomas Meyer.
The
“Manuals”
register
(“Priručnici”) was enriched with two
new manuals for the bar examination:
Judicial Organization Law, Second
revised edition, by Prof. Dr. Goran
Ilic; and Constitutional Law, Second
revised edition, by Prof. Dr. Ratko
Markovic; as well as with a book by
Prof. Dr. Milan Skulic titled Main
Novelties in the Criminal Procedural
Law of Serbia – Amendments to the
Criminal Procedure Code, and Provisions of the Law on International Legal
Aid in Criminal Matters.
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The Criminal Procedure Code,
with an introduction written by Prof.
Dr.Milan Skulic, and The Criminal
Code, with an introduction by Prof.
Dr. Zoran Stojanovic to its fourth edition, were two fresh additions to the
register of “Original Legislation and
Regulations”.
“Legislation Comments” embraced
two new titles: Comments on the Law
on International Legal Aid in Criminal Matters, by Prof. Dr. Momcilo
Grubac, Prof. Dr. Goran Ilic, and Dr.
Miodrag Majic; and Comments on the
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Law of Litigation (based on the Litigation Act of 1976, including its later
amendments), by Prof. Dr. Borivoje
Poznic.
One new book has joined the “Crimen”
n library section: Comparative
Criminal Law/ Droit pénal comparé, by
Jean Pradel, while the „Constitution
and Constitutional Concepts“ library
register was enriched with Collective
Rights and Positive Discrimination in
the Constitutional Legal System of the
Republic of Serbia edited by Prof. Dr.
Miodrag Jovanovic.
“Scientific Heritage of the Faculty
of Law in Belgrade” register embraced
a new book titled Slobodan Jovanovic:
Reflections of His Contemporaries, edited by Prof. Dr. Jovica Trkulja and
Marinko Vucinic.
The Faculty’s Publishing Centre
has also published the journal Annals
of the Faculty of Law, No.2/2009, as
well as its special edition: “Sixty years
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.n
The European Law Students Association (ELSA) and the Student Parliament at the University of Belgrade
Law Faculty, supported by our faculty,
organized a seminar on the “Importance of Lobbying in Today’s Society”.
The seminar was held at the Faculty of
Law on December 9–12, 2009, and it
had a regional character as it brought
together over 70 students from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia, joined by 70
students of our faculty. Speeches by a
number of renowned national experts
followed the welcome speech by Prof.
Dr. Mirko Vasiljevic, Dean of the Law
Faculty, who opened the seminar.
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Student activities
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he fourth generation of students
attended a seminar introducing
them into the hands-on legal experience offered by the Legal Clinic for
Refugee and Asylum Law, coorganized by the Faculty of Law and the
United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees. The seminar took place
on October 30, 2009. It was hosted
by members of Praxis, a non-governmental organization, who presented a
number of examples from real life to
the students, including various forms
of providing legal aid to internally
displaced persons and members of
minorities in Serbia and Kosovo. Following the seminar and their winter
semester classes, the students had an
opportunity to join Praxis legal mobile teams in their field activities and
provide legal assistance and advice to
refugees and displaced persons.
A humanitarian concert titled “A
Song as a Gift” was held in the Amphitheatre V at the Faculty of Law
in Belgrade on October 3, 2009. The
concert was coorganized by the student humanitarian foundation A
Smile as a Gift and the Faculty of Law
in order to raise awareness regarding
pediatric malignancies in our country, and especially to draw attention
to difficulties encountered by ill children and their parents coming from
Kosovo and Metohija.
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The European Law Students Association (ELSA) organized a meeting on “White Schengen – A Road to
Europe” at the Faculty of Law on November 25, 2009. The introductory
speech was delivered by Mr. Bozidar
Djelic, Minister of Science and Technological Development in the Government of the Republic of Serbia.
During the meeting, most important
aspects of the visa liberalization process were debated.
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The seminar on lobbying gathered 140 students from Serbia and the region,
as well as a number of renowned guests
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Faculty of Law students visiting Kosovo and Metohija enclaves
The Student Foundation A Smile
as a Giftt organized on December 7
through 23, 2009, the fourth annual
campaign in a row to collect Christmas gifts for children living in the
most threatened enclaves of Kosovo
and Metohija. The Faculty of Law
students were joined this time by students of other University of Belgrade
faculties, due to which the number of
gifts amounted to two thousand. The
Foundation’s activists visited Kosovo
and Metohija on December 25–27
and went to several enclaves. They
visited the Library of Gracanica, People’s Kitchen in Prekovac, schools in
the villages of Slivovo, Bostane and
Jasenovik in the municipality of Novo
Brdo, the villages of Straze, Koretiste
and Stanisor belonging to the municipality of Gnjilane, the monastery of
Draganac, a Home for Disabled Children near Gracanica, the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, the villages of Suvo
Grlo, Banje, Crkolez, Osojane, and
Vidanje, where non-Albanian population lives in extremely unfavourable
conditions. They also visited a school
in Cernica, the villages of Strezovce,
Ajnovce, and Recani within the municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, a
mixed school in Kosovska Kamenica, as well as St. Nicholas’ Church at
Gnjilane.n
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