She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade in 2003, with an average grade of 9.54. She completed her specialist studies in European Union Law, jointly organized by the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade and the European University Center at the University of Nancy, in 2004. She obtained her Master’s degree at the European University Center at the University of Nancy in 2005, defending her thesis titled Democracy in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe. In 2010, she defended her doctoral thesis (Cum Laude) titled Legal and Political Integration of States within the European Union at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade.
She has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law since 2006. In March 2016, she was appointed senior research associate, and in 2021 she achieved the highest scientific rank – principal research fellow.
She is a member of the Assembly of the Association of Lawyers in Business and a member of the Association of Lawyers of Serbia and Republika Srpska. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the journals Foreign Legal Life, published by the Institute of Comparative Law.
Her areas of interest include Intellectual Property Law and European Union Law. She is the author of numerous articles in these fields, as well as three monographs: Forms of State Integration within the European Union, The Unitary Patent, and The Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Trademark Infringement.
She speaks English and French and is proficient in Spanish.

He is born in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, in 1996. He obtained his Master’s degree from the same faculty in 2000, with distinction, defending a thesis titled “Constitutional Complaint”. In 2006, he earned his PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Niš, with a doctoral dissertation on the topic “The Constitutional Procedure for the Conclusion and Implementation of International Treaties”.

He has been with the Institute of Comparative Law since 2011. From 2000 to 2002, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Between 2002 and 2006, he served as an advisor to the Minister at the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, and from 2006 to 2008, as Assistant Director of the Government of Serbia’s Office for Human and Minority Rights. From 2009 to 2012, he was an advisor to the Minister in the Ministry of Religion, later the Ministry of Religion and Diaspora.

From 2002 to 2007, he was a teaching associate at the Faculty of Law, Union University. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Legal Sciences, “Apeiron” University in Banja Luka.

He is a member of the Presidency of the Serbian Association for Constitutional Law and serves on the editorial board of “Foreign Legal Life”, the journal published by the Institute of Comparative Law. He was promoted to the position of Senior Research Fellow in October 2019, and in 2024, he was elected to the highest scientific rank of Principal Research Fellow.

His fields of expertise include constitutional law, administrative law, human and minority rights, and state-church law.

He is the author or co-author of several monographs and numerous scholarly articles. Notable works include the monographs Constitutional Complaint, The Constitution and International Treaties, Affirmative Action, Freedom of Religion in the Jurisprudence of European Constitutional Courts, as well as three monographs on the subject of non-territorial minority autonomy.

He is fluent in English and has working knowledge of German.

Vesna Ćorić was born in 1978.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, in 2003. In 2005, she completed her postgraduate (LL.M.) studies in Human Rights Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Miami, USA, with a thesis titled Limitations of Economic Sanctions. Her degree was officially recognized in Serbia in 2006. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, in 2014, defending with distinction a doctoral dissertation on The Relationship Between the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.

She has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law since 2006. Over the years, she has participated in numerous academic and professional projects supported by international donors such as USAID, the European Union, and UNDP. From 2006 to 2008, she served as the secretary of the Institute’s journal Foreign Legal Life.

Her primary areas of interest include human rights law, public international law, and European integration law. In addition, she has published works on public administration and anti-corruption efforts.

She is fluent in English and has working knowledge of Russian.

Born in 1981, she completed her primary and secondary education in Belgrade. She earned her undergraduate degree in judicial studies from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, in 2006, followed by a Master’s degree in Criminal Law from the same faculty in 2007. In 2015, she received her PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Niš, defending a doctoral dissertation titled Fiscal Criminal Offences.

From 2006 to 2007, she worked as Secretary of the Anti-Doping Agency of the Republic of Serbia. She then held positions at the City of Belgrade’s Secretariat for Finance and later as an internal auditor within the City’s Internal Audit Service. She has participated in numerous national and international projects in the field of public finance and has lectured extensively at seminars on related topics. Since 2011, she has collaborated with the publishing company NIP Obrazovni informator as an external expert in public finance, with a particular focus on the budgetary system and control mechanisms for public spending.

She joined the Institute of Comparative Law in 2013. She was promoted to the title of Research Fellow in 2016 and to Senior Research Fellow in 2020. She is a member of the editorial board of The Review of International Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade.

She is the author of numerous publications in Serbian and English in the fields of criminal law and public finance, and has participated in various national and international conferences.

Her areas of research interest include criminal law and public finance, with a particular focus on external and internal oversight of public resource management. She is fluent in English and Italian and has working knowledge of Russian.

Ana Knežević Bojović, Ph.D, was born in 1977.

She graduated from the Belgrade University Law Faculty in 2000. Ms Knezevic Bojovic went on to complete specialist studies in European Law, organised jointly by the Belgrade University Law Faculty and the Centre Europeen Universitaire, Nancy, France, in 2002. She then defended with honours her master’s thesis entitled “Insolvency Proceedings with a Foreign Element in European Union Law” in 2005. That same year she passed the Bar exam. In 2011, Ana defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Freedom of Establishment of Companies in European Union Law” with honours.

Ms Knežević Bojović is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Comparative Law, where she has been working since 2001. From 2006 to September 2015 she was a teaching assistant in EU law and Private International Law at the Union University Law Faculty. From November 2013 to April 2015, Ana worked as a policy coordinator at the National Alliance for Local Economic Development. She has ample experience as a lecturer, having been engaged in this capacity by the Serbian European Integration Office, the Human Resource Management Office of Serbia, the Serbian Judicial Academy and the Regional School for Public Administration. Ms Knežević Bojović further has a wide and diverse consultancy portfolio, having provided her expertise in projects supported by USAID, EU, Council of Europe, GIZ, UNICRI, OSCE, Norwegian Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector and the Open Society Fund.

Ms Knezevic Bojovic is a member of the editorial board of „Strani pravni život“ journal issued by the Institute of Comparative Law and is the Head of the Team for the Promotion of ICL Scientific Contributions.

Her research interests include European Union law, judicial organisation, judicial reform, business law and legal translation.

Ms Knezevic Bojovic is proficient in English and Spanish, and has intermediate-level command of Russian and French languages.

Ana authored or co-authored over 90 monographs, papers and analyses, and has translated numerous legal publications from Serbian to English.

Mirjana Glintić was born on September 12, 1986, in Ivanjica. As the recipient of the “Vuk Diploma”, she completed both her elementary and high school education in Ivanjica.
She enrolled in the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade in the 2005/06 academic year, where she graduated on October 22, 2010, with an average grade of 9.00. In the 2010/11 academic year, she enrolled in the Master’s program at the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade, specializing in commercial law, which she successfully completed in 2012 with the defense of her master’s thesis titled “Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Set Aside in the Country of Origin – Theoretical Foundations of a Modern Controversy”. On September 27, 2019, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled “The Legal Nature of the Right to Payment of the Insured Sum in Personal Insurance” at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade, with honors.
After completing her undergraduate studies, she was employed at the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade, where she was appointed as a research trainee. Upon finishing her Master’s studies, she was elected to the position of research associate by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Comparative Law. For the Institute, Mirjana Glintić worked on several projects, including “Serbian and European Law – Comparison and Harmonization”, “Drafting a Review of Legislation in the Defense System of the Republic of Serbia”, “Comparative Legal Analysis of the Legality, Production, and Use of Genetically Modified Organisms”, “Health Care and Health Insurance Systems, Comparative Legal Analysis in European Countries”, and “Monitoring the Implementation of the New Criminal Procedure Code”. As a legal expert, in cooperation with NALED, Civic Initiatives, and other non-governmental organizations, she participated in projects dedicated to the revitalization of brownfields in Serbia, promoting youth engagement, and determining the amount of financial compensation for the use of public goods in the Republic of Serbia. Mirjana Glintić has participated in numerous domestic conferences, presenting her papers. Since 2013, she has been the secretary of the editorial board of the journal Review of European Law and since 2024 she has been a senior editor of the journal Insurance Trends.
Several times she has been engaged as a lecturer in various master class programs at the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade and at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences University of Belgrade. As a legal expert in insurance law, she is engaged at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a lecturer at trainings for acquiring the title, as well as trainings aimed at continuous education of insurance brokers and agents.
During her undergraduate studies, she was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, the municipality of Ivanjica, and the Regional Chamber of Commerce of Užice. In recent years, she has received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Bundestag, Humboldt University, Freie Universität, and Technische Universität. As a scholarship holder of the German Bundestag, she successfully completed a six-month internship in the office of CDU member of parliament, Mr. Johan Wadephul, in Berlin in 2013.
She is fluent in English and German.

Dr. Katarina Jovičić was born in 1965 in Belgrade, where she completed her primary and secondary education. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade in 1988 and passed the bar exam in 1990. She completed her specialist studies in International Business Law in 2004 at the Faculty of Law at Union University in Belgrade. She earned her master’s degree in 2006 and her Ph.D. in 2012 at the same faculty.

She began her professional career in 1989 as a legal trainee at a law firm in Belgrade. After three years of practice, she was employed at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Belgrade, where she served as the Faculty Secretary for nearly five years. Since 1996, she has been working at the Federal Ministry of Justice, handling the most complex professional tasks in the fields of obligations, property law relations, bankruptcy and liquidation, enforcement, litigation, non-litigation procedures, as well as international legal assistance. During this period, she also served as the secretary of the working group responsible for drafting legislative proposals, including the Bankruptcy Law and the Electronic Business Law.

Since 2003, she has been working at the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade and, from 2005 to 2023, initially as a teaching assistant and later as a assistant professor, she participated in teaching the following courses: Commercial Law, Private International Law, Arbitration Law, Obligations Law, Contracts in International Trade. These subjects, along with Consumer Contract Law, represent her primary areas of academic interest. During her scientific research work, dr. Katarina Jovičić has published over 70 scientific papers.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, in 1987. In 1997, he earned his PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg in Switzerland, defending a dissertation titled *The Legislative Procedure in Yugoslavia with Special Reference to Swiss Law*.

He joined the Institute of Comparative Law in 1992 as a Researcher and was promoted to Research Fellow in 1997. Since 2000, he has served as Project Coordinator for initiatives funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a Legal Advisor at the OSCE (Office of the Head of Mission), and from 2006 onward as a Judicial Reform Strategy Advisor in the OSCE’s Rule of Law and Human Rights Department.

His academic career includes teaching Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Union University in Belgrade (2002–2005) and lecturing on Constitutional Law and EU Law at the Academy for Diplomacy and Security (2007–2011). He has taken part in numerous projects supported by international organizations, foreign and domestic governmental and non-governmental bodies, serving as a legal expert. He has also delivered lectures at the Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy, Faculty of Law, University of Nancy, France (2002), and at the Université européenne d’été, Faculty of Law, University of Szeged, Hungary (2013).

His main areas of expertise include constitutional law, administrative law, human rights, and European Union law.

He is the author or co-author of several monographs and numerous scholarly articles in these fields. Notable works include “Compatibility of Yugoslav Law with the Provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights” and “Overview of the Implementation of Laws Relevant to Local Self-Government in the Republic of Serbia”.

He is fluent in French and English.

Dr. Aleksandra Rabrenović was born in Belgrade in 1972, where she completed primary and secondary school.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, her master’s degree (LLM) in the field of public law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and her doctoral studies (PhD) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Glasgow, in Great Britain. She has over 25 years of experience of consultancy work in the field of public administration reform in Southeast Europe and Central and East Asia.
She has been working at the Institute for Comparative Law since 2007. In July 2023, she was appointed to the position of the head of the Department for Scientific Development, and in November 2024 to the position of the head of the Department of Public Law of the Institute.
Her main areas of academic expertise are public administration reform and the rights of persons with disabilities. She published over 90 scientific papers and participated in the work of a large number of scientific conferences in the mentioned fields in Serbia and abroad.
Over the last few years, through her academic and professional work, she became an advocate for the improvement of public policies and social inclusion of persons with disabilities. She is the founder and president of the Managing Board of the NGO “Children without Limits”, which brings together parents of children with intellectual disabilities and young people with disabilities. She is also a member of the Working Group of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs for amending regulations in the field of support for independent living of persons with disabilities.
She speaks English and Russian language.

Dr. Mario Reljanović was born in 1977.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2000 and obtained his magister degree at the Faculty of Law of the Union University in Belgrade in 2007, defending magister thesis entitled “International cooperation in the fight against terrorism”. He received his doctorate in 2011 at the Faculty of Law of Union University in Belgrade, defending doctoral dissertation entitled “Prohibition of discrimination in employment as an international human right”.

Dr. Reljanović was employed as a research associate at the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade, where he worked from 2004 to 2012 and again from 2018. In the period 2012 – 2018, he was employed at the Faculty of Law of Union University in Belgrade, as an associate professor. In the period 2009 – 2018, he was the head of the legal clinic for labour law at the same faculty.

His primary fields of research are labour and social law, legal informatics, anti-discrimination law and human rights law.

Mario has published over a hundred scientific and professional works, as well as several monographs, in Serbian and English language.

Actively engaged in numerous national and international projects, his focus has been on advancing labor and social law as well as human rights law.

He is the head of the civil society organisation Center for Dignified Work in Belgrade.

Dr Jelena Vukadinović Marković was born in 1983.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of  Kragujevac, with a GPA 9.9 (out of 10).  She also holds a LL.M. degree from the European Institute of the University of Saarland (2011), a Magister degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka (2011), and a Ph.D. degree, suma cum laude, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade (2016).

Her fields of special interests include Arbitration law, International Commercial Law and European Union law.

Having previously worked there as a graduate student assistant on an International Commercial Law course (2011-2017), she has been teaching EU Law at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, since 2017.

She is also a member of the Permanent Arbitration (Serbia)  and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (Republika Srpska). Since 2018, Dr Vukadinović Marković has been the editor-in-chief of the Review of European Law.

She has published two books, one monograph and a number of articles on European Union Law, Arbitration Law and International Commercial Law.

In addition to being fluent in English, she also has a basic knowledge of German language.

Prof. Dr Samir Aličić was born in Novi Sad in 1981. He graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad, where he defended his master’s thesis in 2007 “The Invalidity of Wills and Testamentary Dispositions Due to the Lack of Form in the Institution of Gaius”. He defended his doctoral dissertation “Classical meaning of the word damnum (damage) in chapter of the Digest Ad legem Aquiliam (9.2)” with honors at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade on March 23, 2011. As part of international cooperation, he spent three study stays at the Law Faculty of “La Sapienza” University of Rome. In June 2007, he attended professional training at the Seminar for Romanists in Amantea, Italy.

Since 2004, he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad. Since 2012, he has taught first as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor at the Department of Legal Sciences of the State University in Novi Pazar and the Faculty of Law at the University of East Sarajevo. In 2023, he was elected full professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of East Sarajevo, where he continues to teach. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo, with whom he continues collaboration on postgraduate studies. From 2016 to 2019, he collaborated as a visiting professor with the Law Faculty of the University of Sassari, Italy. He gave lectures by invitation at the law faculties of the universities of Split, Skopje, Zenica and Tuzla. He is an associate of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies ISPROM based in Sassari, Italy, since 2021. He has been working at the Institute for Comparative Law since 2023.

He participated in several scientific projects of the Faculty of Law of Novi Sad and the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia. He is a member of the international scientific board of the scientific journal Diritto e Storia, as well as the editorial boards of the journal Roma e America – diritto romano commune, Proceedings of the Faculty of Law of Tuzla, and thematic issues from the scientific gatherings of the Yearbook of the Faculty of Law of East Sarajevo. He reviews papers for several scientific journals in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy. He is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Eurasian Seminars of Roman Law and the Scientific Congress on the occasion of the Faculty Day in Pale since 2022. He served as a member of the head of the Department for Legal Sciences and a member of the Council and the Teaching and Research Council at the State University in Novi Pazar.

He is a member of the International Society for the History of Ancient Law (Société Internationale pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité), the International Association for Comparative Law Juris Diversitas, the Society for Ancient Studies of Serbia, the Balkan Association of Novelists SIR (Società internazionale romana).

His areas of scholarly interest are Roman law, legal history, patrimonial law and constitutional theory. He is the author of five monographic publications and over sixty scientific articles and papers from international scientific conferences.

He speaks Italian, English and German, an possesses a knowledge of Latin and Spanish.

Jovana Rajić Ćalić was born on February 14, 1990 in Ćuprija. She enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade on October 1, 2009 and graduated on October 3, 2013 with an average grade of 9.48. During her undergraduate studies, she attended the Legal Clinic for Criminal Law (2011-2013), attended the course “Writing legal acts”, the course “International criminal law”, organized by the OSCE, and gained practical experience during summer internships at the company Holcim in 2011, in the law office Moravčević Vojinović in association with Schoenherr in 2012 and in the law office Tomanović in 2013. As a student, she was a scholarship recipient of the city of Paraćin and scholarships intended for students of higher education institutions in the Republic of Serbia. She was awarded a scholarship from the company Holcim, as well as a scholarship from the Ministry of Youth and Sports – Fund for Young Talents “Dositeja” for the year 2013. She also received the commendation of the dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade for excellent success during her studies (2010-2014).

She enrolled in her master’s studies in 2013 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, at the Department of Labor Law, and completed them on July 10, 2014 with an average grade of 10, defending a master’s thesis on the topic “Consequences of the initiation of criminal proceedings on the employment relationship of an employee”.

In November 2014, she enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, at the Department of Labor Law. In parallel, he started his internship at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Paraćin in 2014-2016 after which she passed the bar exam in March 2017 at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, with honors in criminal law. She was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development for doctoral students for the academic year 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 a year. For a year, she worked as an assistant public bailiff.

Since May 2018, she has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law as a researcher intern. In the same year, she was part of the team of the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade that participated in the project “Make it worth for young – MY WAY” of the NGO ASTRA – Action against human trafficking, dedicated to labor exploitation. She was elected to the title of research associate on December 24, 2020 at the Institute of Comparative Law. For the work “Vulnerable groups of women and the pandemic”, she won second place in the competition Impact of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 on gender equality, which was organized by the Center for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. She was the editor of the conference and collection “Comparative Law Challenges in Contemporary Law – in memoriam Stefan Andonović Phd” co-published by the Institute for Comparative Law in Belgrade and the Faculty of Law of the University of Kragujevac. On September 2, 2023 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Special labor law protection of sensitive categories of employees – ratio legis, legitimate goals and instruments of protection”, which earned her the title of Doctor of Legal Sciences.

She has published several articles. She speaks English, speaks German and Spanish.

Milica V. Matijević was born in 1977 in the city of Sombor. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2004. During the academic year 2000/2001, as a holder of the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) scholarship, she attended academic courses at the Faculty of Law of the University of Utrecht in the field of human rights protection and EU law. She completed her master’s degree in 2005 at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC), an educational institution based in Venice (Italy), which was created under the European Union’s auspices by thirty law schools and research institutes from the EU Member States. Her master’s degree dissertation was entitled “The United Nations Transitional Administration Missions and the Principles of Democratic Governance,” and was based on research she conducted under the mentorship of professor Erik Andrè Andersen at the Danish Institute for Human Rights in Copenhagen (Denmark). In 2018, Ms. Matijević successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Substantive Equality and the Limits of Law” at the Faculty of Law of the University of Florence (Italy), under the supervision of professor Alessandro Simoni.

She has been working at the Institute of Comparative Law since 2007. As a legal expert in the field of human rights and the protection of the rights of internally displaced persons, she participated in the realisation of numerous international projects funded by the European Union, the United Nations, and other organisations.

The main fields of her research interest are international human rights law, the legal protection of internally displaced persons, and the protection of vulnerable minority groups against discrimination. She has authored a number of articles and policy papers related to these topics, particularly on the subject of the protection of the rights of internally displaced persons and minority groups.

She is fluent in English and Italian.

Miloš Vasović was born on May 3, 1994, in Čačak. He completed elementary school in Smederevo and graduated from high school, i.e., the Gymnasium, also in Smederevo, in 2013.
He enrolled at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade in 2013, and graduated within three and a half years. In October 2017, he began his master’s studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, within the law and economics module. He successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Carousel Transactions and Measures for Their Prevention”.
Immediately after defending his master’s thesis, he simultaneously enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, specializing in public finance and tax law, as well as in the specialist studies in tax law held at the Faculty of Law. The specialist studies lasted one year; he successfully passed the final exam.
In February 2025, he earned his PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, where he defended his doctoral dissertation titled “The Concept of the Beneficial Ownership of Income in the Law of International Tax Treaties” as an original dissertation, and with distinction.
He has participated in several tax law conferences held in Vienna under the auspices of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschafts Universität Wien) and the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law. He was also a participant in the summer school of tax law in Vienna, organized by the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law as part of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. At the end of February 2024, he spent seven days at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, where he attended the “EU Tax Law” seminar.
His field of interest is the VAT system in the European Union and in Serbia, as well as the European Union tax law.
He speaks English and German.

Anja Bezbradica was born in 1989. She enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade with a major in legal theory in 2008. In 2015, Anja earned her Master of Laws from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade, specializing in the Department of Theory, Sociology, and Philosophy of Law. Her master’s thesis titled “Law and Force” received a grade of 10.

From 2016 to 2022, Anja worked at the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, initially in the workplace for normative-legal affairs, and then in the workplace for administrative-legal affairs (second instance procedure for obtaining the right to information of public importance). Additionally, Anja worked (from 2016 to 2022) as a teaching associate at the Faculty for Law of Commerce and Judiciary at the University Business Academy in Novi Sad, on the courses Introduction to Law and Constitutional Law.

Currently, Anja is pursuing her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, specializing in the sociology of law. She defended her Doctoral Dissertation Project titled “Functions of law: a synthetic (sociological and psychological) perspective” before a commission consisting of Prof. Dr. Saša Bovan, Prof. Dragan Popadić, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Miloš Zdravković, Ph.D.

Since January 2022, Anja has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law.

Her research interests encompass the sociology of law, sociological jurisprudence and psychology of law, focusing particularly on topics of legal consciousness, compliance with the law, and functions of law.

Danilo was born on August 10, 1994, in Belgrade. He completed his integrated law degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, earning the academic title of Master of Laws (mag. iur.) in 2019. At the same faculty, he specialized in the legal systems of Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Thomas Simon, with a dissertation titled "A Comparative Study of Collective Property in the South Slavic and German-Speaking Regions: The Example of Zadruga and the Fideicommissum." From January 2021 to August 2024, he was employed as a university assistant (Universitätsassistent prae doc) at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, under the supervision of Professor Miloš Vec and Professor Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal. During the same period, he was a recipient of the uni:doc scholarship awarded by the Ars Iuris Vienna Doctoral School. He was actively involved in the leadership of several student organizations and served three terms as Secretary-General of the Organization of Serbian Students Abroad – Vienna (08/2016–08/2018 and 08/2019–08/2020), as well as Secretary-General of the Association of Young Serbian Lawyers "Jovan Hadžić" (since 06/2017). He has been a Fellow of the Ars Iuris Vienna Doctoral School since September 2020. Since 2025, he has been employed at the Institute for Comparative Law as a Research Assistant. His areas of interest are property law and legal history. He speaks English, German, and Russian.

Aleksandar Mihajlović was born on November 24th 1991 in Niš.

Aleksandar graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Niš in 2014 with an average grade of 9.94. At the same faculty, he completed his master’s degree in 2015 with an average grade of 10.00, defending his master’s thesis on the topic “State aid policy of the European Union”, and was awarded the Charter of the University of Niš for the best graduate student at the Faculty of Law in the academic year 2014/2015. As the winner of the Chevening Scholarship, awarded by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he completed his master’s studies in the field of international human rights law at the University of Sussex in Brighton in 2020, with a master’s thesis “The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships before the Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights”. Aleksandar is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law, the University of Niš, and is preparing a dissertation with a focus on discrimination in the field of labor and employment, applying a legal and economic methodological framework.

In 2021, Aleksandar completed successfully the Jean Monnet module on European Monetary Law at the Faculty of Law, the University of Niš, as well as the program “Creation and Analysis of Public Policies” organized by the Faculty of Sciences, the University of Novi Sad, the University of Niš and the Faculty of Law, the University of Belgrade.
He worked as a legal trainee at the law office in Niš (2014-2018), and as a junior expert at the Public Policy Secretariat of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, as a part the Group for the Coordination of the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Government’s Program (2021-2023). He has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law since September 1st 2023.

In 2019, Aleksandar passed the state bar examination before the Ministry of Justice in Belgrade (with distinction in criminal law and international private law), as well as the LPC and Training Contract Examination before the Bar Association Niš. He also successfully completed basic training for mediators in 2020.
The areas of his research are economic analysis of law (law and economics), anti-discrimination law with a special focus on the field of labor and employment, impact assessment of regulations and public policy documents, the planning system of the Republic of Serbia.
He was appointed as a secretary of the journal “Strani pravni život” (“Foreign Legal Life”) published by the Institute of Comparative Law.
Aleksandar speaks English language and has a basic knowledge of German language.

She was born on March 1, 1997 in Negotin, Republic of Serbia. In Negotin, she completed elementary school and gymnasium with excellent success, as a holder of diploma „Vuk Karadžić“.

Milena enrolled in basic studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2016, and graduated on July 23, 2020 with excellent grade (10). During her undergraduate studies, she attended legal skills “Nomotechnics and Writing Legal Acts” and “Case Studies and Trial Simulation”, and in the academic year 2019/2020 she completed an internship in the office of attorney Miroslav Lazic from Negotin. As an undergraduate student, she has written and successfully defended several seminar (co-authored) papers, some of which are “Liability for damage caused by minors”, “Legal nature of the United Nations”, “International Legal Aid in Criminal Cases”, “Red Cross of Serbia” and “Taxation of the Digital Economy”. She also attended expert groups in several subjects (Civil Law, Law of Obligations, Inheritance Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Fundamentals of Economics, Company Law, Public International Law and Tax Law). As a student of undergraduate studies, she was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (2016-2020). He received four rewards from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade for excellent success in learning and acquiring knowledge. After completing her undergraduate studies, Milena was praised and awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade as one of the two best students in the generation 2016/2017.

In 2020, she enrolled in master studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (business law scientific field). In 2021 Milena defended her master thesis on the topic “Legal nature of the safe deposit box contract” and thus completed her master studies with the highest grade (10). During her master studies, she was a holder of the „Dositeja“ Scholarship – Ministry of Youth and Sports, The Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia, and in the same year she was praised and awarded by the Municipality of Negotin as the most successful student in her generation from the territory of the municipality.

In 2021, she enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, opting for a business-legal scientific field. As a doctoral student, she wrote and defended her doctoral thesis on the topic “Legal regime of deposit insurance as an instrument for preserving economic stability”, and also passed the first and second oral doctoral exams with the highest grades. During the second year of doctoral studies, Milena successfully defended her seminar paper on the topic “Advantages and risks of e-commerce with special emphasis on the abuse of memorandum and the problem of electronic agency”, and published a scientific article entitled “Interruption of a series of endorsements as a reason for the nullity the transfer of bill of exchange– an example of ‘hidden aval'”. She is currently conducting research for doctoral thesis in the field of law of bills of exchange.

After completing her undergraduate studies, Milena worked as a lawyer trainee – volunteer in the office of attorney Željko Ristic from Belgrade, and then she was engaged in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Serbia – Tax Administration, as well as in legal affairs in the City Municipality of Zvezdara. She has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law since June 2022. During her work at the Institute, she has published several scientific papers and participated in several national and international scientific conferences.

She speaks English and Spanish.

She was born on March 21, 1995 in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, where she completed primary and secondary school with excellent results. She enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2013 and graduated in 2018 with an average grade of 8.10. In 2018, she enrolled in master's studies at the same faculty, in the narrower scientific and legal field – intellectual property law and graduated with an average grade of 9.50. She is the author of several scientific and professional papers in domestic legal journals and a participant in several projects of regional importance. Since 2018, she has been working at the Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad. In 2020, she was elected to the position of teaching assistant at the same faculty. She was a participant in the Jean Monnet module “Free Trade Agreements and European Integration of SEE Countries” in 2018. As part of the Erasmus+ program for higher education staff, she was a guest of the University of Nicolo Cusano (Niccolo Cusano) in Rome, Italy, from 6 June 2022 to 10 June 2022. While writing her PhD thesis in September 2024, she successfully completed the training in preparation, writing and management of Horizon Europe projects, organized by the European Training Agency (EUTA). Later that year she received the certificate for completing the intensive course entitled "European Integration: History, Future & Current Topics" organized by the Institute for Common Law and the Europe Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She is fluent in several foreign languages: English, Italian and Spanish, for which he holds relevant, internationally recognized certificates.

Ljubomir Tintor was born on 23 January 1994, in Banja Luka. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade in 2013. He graduated in 2017 with an average grade of 9.57. Throughout his undergraduate studies, he was a scholarship recipient from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia for all four years, and he was also the holder of the “Dositej” scholarship from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia for the year 2017. He pursued his Master’s studies in 2017 and completed them in 2018 with a perfect average grade of 10.00. He obtained the title of Master of Laws by defending a thesis titled “Persons with Disabilities and the Issue of Accessibility.”

In 2019, he embarked on his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, specializing in international law. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation under the mentorship of Professor Dr. Bojana Čučković. The title of the dissertation is “State Responsibility for Climate Change in International Law.”

Ljubomir Tintor has published several research papers in English and Serbian languages and presented the results of his research at academic conferences. During his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, he attended various courses and seminars in the field of international law, such as the “Vojin Dimitrijevic School of Human Rights 2018,” the “Specialized Course on International Refugee Law” organized by UNHCR, the Institute for Humanitarian Law in San Remo, and the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He also participated in the “Winter School of International Relations” organized by the Institute for International Politics and Economics, and a course on “International and European Standards in the Field of Asylum and Migration and Their Applicability and Relevance to the Republic of Serbia.” During the summer of 2018, he engaged in a short-term volunteer program at the Institute for International Politics and Economics.

As a scholarship recipient of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia from June 2020 to August 2023, he was involved in the work of the Institute for International Politics and Economics, where he conducted scientific research under the mentorship of Professor Dr. Dragojub Todić. He is engaged in the strategic project of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and the Institute for Legal and Social Sciences for the years 2022 and 2023, titled “Contemporary Problems of the Legal System of Serbia.” Starting from 1, September 2023, he is employed at the Institute of Comparative Law.

His research areas encompass international public law, human rights, international environmental law, international climate change law and international refugee law. He speaks English and French languages.

Ana Zdravković is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Comparative Law and a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade. She is also engaged as a Researcher on the project of the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade “Advancing Cooperation on the Foundations of Law” (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01).
The topic of the doctoral dissertation that she is currently working on under the supervision of Prof. Bojane Čučković, PhD is “Absolute Human Rights”. During the autumn semester of the academic year 2023/24 she did a research stay at the Tarello Institute for the Philosophy of Law of the University of Genoa. As a scholarship holder of the Austrian Agency for Education and Mobility (OeAD), she spent winter semester of the academic year 2021/22 at the University of Vienna (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights), where she conducted research for her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of the director of the institute, Prof. Mihaela Lysander Fremuth, PhD.
She was a Teaching Assistant in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade during the academic year of 2018/19 year and 2019/20. After completing her legal apprenticeship at the law office of the attorney-at-law Nebojša D. Maraš, she successfully passed the Bar Exam in 2021.
During her undergraduate and postgraduate studies, she attended various courses and seminars in the field of international law, such as the Legal Clinic for Refugee Law and Asylum Law (University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and UNHCR, 2015-2016), European Academy Otzenhausen (Otzenhausen, 2018), Summer School “Current Challenges in Human Rights Protection” (European Institute of the University of Saarbrücken, 2019), Autumn School “Law and Gender” (European Institute of the University of Saarbrücken, 2021) and the seminar “International Refugee Law for Postgraduate Students” (International Institute for Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, 2022).
She published several scientific papers in English and Serbian and presented the results of her research at scientific conferences in Serbia and abroad. She participated in the editing of collection of papers and the organization of international and domestic conferences and symposia. She was part of scientific and professional projects implemented with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Netherlands Fund for Regional Partnership (MATRA), the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Since 2018, she is the Executive Editor of the Review of Legal, Political and Social Theory and Philosophy – Eudaimonia (Faculty of Law University of Belgrade and Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy).
She is a member of the Judicial Research Centre and the Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVRS).
She speaks English and German and has intermediate knowledge of Italian.

Đorđe was born on 26 November 1998, in Čačak. He completed primary and middle school with excellent success in Ivanjica.

He enrolled in the undergraduate academic studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, in October 2017, and graduated on July 14, 2021, with an average grade of 9.64. During his undergraduate studies, he participated in the legal clinic for contract and torts law on the topic “Non-pecuniary Damage,” and as a third- and fourth-year student, he took part in two national competitions in simulation criminal trial and one international competition in simulation of a procedure before the European Court of Human Rights. As an undergraduate student, he wrote and successfully defended seminar papers in Roman Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Civil Procedural Law. He initiated and participated in organizing several educational forums at the Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac. As an undergraduate student, he was awarded three scholarships from the Ministry of Education and one Scholarship of Foundation for Young Talents – Dositeja.

He completed his Master’s academic studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, by successfully defending his master’s thesis on the topic “Compensation for non-material damage caused by a violation of the presumption of innocence in media reporting.” He finished his Master’s studies with an average grade of 10.00. During his Master’s studies, he was awarded scholarships from the Foundation for Young Talents – Dositeja and the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade.

He enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, in 2023. As a doctoral student, he completed all the mandatory examinations from the first year and the elective course Sports Law with the highest grades.

After completing his undergraduate studies, he worked as a legal trainee in a law office, and later was appointed as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac. During two academic years, he held exercises in Criminal Law, Juvenile Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedural Law. He was involved in the work of the Legal Clinic on the topic of preventing domestic violence. During this clinic’s work, he held a class where he presented cases from judicial practice regarding the criminal offense of domestic violence. As an academic mentor to students at the Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, he participated in a criminal procedure simulation competition, where Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac won second place and the best ranking among teams from Serbia.

He joined the Institute of Comparative Law in 2024, where his main areas of academic interest are Sports law, Contract and Torts law, Criminal law. Over the past period, he has published several scientific and professional papers and participated in numerous national and international scientific conferences.

Djordje Timotijevic was born in 2000 in Belgrade, where he completed elementary school and First Belgrade Gymnasium. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2019 and graduated in 2023 with an average grade of 9.53.

During his undergraduate academic studies, he attended study groups in several subjects (Civil Law – General Part and Property Law, Criminal Law, Public International Law – English Study Group and Civil Procedural Law) and wrote and defended a seminar paper. He was a member of the United Nations Club of the Faculty of Law, and in cooperation with the Center for Sociological and Legal Research, organized the workshop “What After Trauma”. He is a member of the Society for Roman Law and Classics “Forvm Romanvm”. He has participated in numerous extracurricular activities, including the Autumn School and Conference: “European Union and Western Balkans against the Backdrop of New Geopolitical Tensions”, organized in cooperation with the University of Bordeaux, the additional course “Dutch and EU Pension Law” organized in cooperation with the University of Utrecht, the Spring School “Law and Gender Spring School/Pilot Master Law” and two seminars in Environmental Law. He was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, a recipient of commendations from the Faculty of Law for excellent studies, and a scholarship by Foundation for Young Talents – Dositeja. He also participated in the summer school “Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme – Remedies and Sanctions in National and European Labour Law”, held at the University of Toulouse and the program “Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace – European and Comparative Approach”, held at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade.

Started master´s academic studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (public law module, administrative law sub-module) in 2023 and got his master´s degree in 2024 with an average grade of 10, defending his master’s thesis on the topic: “Certain open issues of the positive legal regulation of administrative procedure”. As part of his master´s studies, he attended and passed the optional course: “Access to Justice in Environmental Matters”. At the University of Oslo, Djordje was a participant in the Circle U. summer school “Democratic Governance and Politics of Poverty”.

He enrolled in doctoral academic studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade in the field of administrative law in 2024.

Djordje has written and published several scientific papers in the field of administrative law, public procurement, legal history and legal theory, and has participated in numerous conferences presenting papers in Serbian and English. He is the recipient of the “Professor Slobodan Perović” Award for his paper: “The Right to Justice in the Light of the Basic Values of Natural and Positive Law”.

He has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law since February 2025.

Fields of professional interest are administrative law, legal history, legal theory and human rights.

He speaks English and French.

Aleksandra Višekruna was born in 1988. She enrolled at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade in 2007 (business-law track) and graduated in 2011 as the best student of the generation. In the same year, she began her Master’s studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (business law module). She defended her Master’s thesis on the topic “The Legal Status of Employees in Bankruptcy Proceedings” in 2013. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade in business law.

During her studies, she received scholarships from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development, the “Dositeja” Fund for Young Talents (Ministry of Youth and Sports), the “Privrednik” humanitarian fund, and the City of Smederevo. She received several awards, including the Faculty of Law Award for excellent academic performance (2008-2012), the Prof. Dr. Mirko Vasiljević Fund Award for the best student of the generation, the University of Belgrade Award for Student of the Generation of the Faculty of Law for the 2010/2011 academic year, and the City of Smederevo Award for Youth Creativity (2012). As part of the SEE | EU Cluster of Excellence in European and International Law program, she received a scholarship for a research stay and spent a month (January-February 2018) at the Europa Institute at Saarland University in Germany. She also participated in several summer and winter schools and additional courses in Serbia and abroad.

During her studies, she interned at the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry, and Water Management – Market Inspection Sector (March – April 2012). From May to November 2013, she worked as an associate at the Ministry of Finance (Financial System Sector – Securities and Capital Market Group) within the project “Better Public Administration through Internship Programs” (Belgrade Open School, USAID Serbia). Since November 2013, she has been employed at the Institute of Comparative Law. She served as the secretary of the journal “Strani pravni život” published by the Institute of Comparative Law (September 2016-January 2019), and afterwards as the technical editor of the same journal (January 2019-December 2021). She was a member of the editorial board of journal “Strani pravni život” from 2018 to 2021. She has been the secretary of the journal “Review of European Law” since 2022. She is the editor of the Institute of Comparative Law website. In the eNauka (eScience) system, she was appointed as the NIO editor for the Institute of Comparative Law.

Her areas of interest include corporate, bankruptcy, and securities law. She speaks English, Spanish and German.

She was born in 1995 in Kragujevac. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2018. At the same faculty, she completed her master’s degree on the civil law module, property law module 1, defending her master’s thesis on the topic “Form of power of attorney for concluding a contract for the conveyance of real estate”. He is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, with the framework topic of her doctoral dissertation ’Formal Contracts in Civil Law’.

During her bachelor’s studies, she was the recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, as well as a recipient of commendations from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade for her excellent success during her studies. During her master’s academic studies, she was a team member representing the Faculty of Law at the “John J. Jackson Moot Court Competition” in the simulation of proceedings before the World Trade Organization. She attended the course “Additional Seminar on Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization”, the course “Additional Course on Avoiding, negotiating and Mediating Disputes in transnational commerce”, as well as the Jean Monnet module “Free Trade Agreements and European Integration of SEE countries”. She attended the Legal Clinic for Obligation Law and the Legal Clinic for Environmental Law.

She is the winner of the “Katarina Lengold Marinković” award, awarded by the Vojvodina Bar Association, for a scientific paper entitled “Consent for the conclusion of a contract”, which is awarded to a scientific paper that has contributed the most to the dialogue between legal theory and practice. In 2023, she passed the bar exam.

She has been employed as a Junior Research Assistant at the Institute of Comparative Law since January 1, 2022.

Her area of ​​interest is Law of Obligations. He speaks English and French, and has a pre-intermediate level of German.

Olivera was born in Belgrade. She completed her basic studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 1991 and passed the Bar Exam in 1994. She received her master’s degree in the field of international public law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 1997, and her doctorate in 2015 at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade in the field of democratisation.

Olivera worked in the Third Municipal Court and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Serbia as an Advisor in the field of criminal law and Secretary General of the Criminal Department, and then as a Program Director of the United Nations Development Program, office for Serbia. Since 2015, Olivera has been engaged as an independent expert in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of international development projects in the field of judicial reform, human rights, and public administration reform.  Olivera cooperates with numerous national partners from the Western Balkans, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and Asia and the Pacific.

Olivera is a member of the European Judges and Prosecutors Association, the Academic Anti-Corruption Initiative and the Working Group for the Multi-Year Development Plan Association of the Judicial Academy.

Olivera published a number of articles on the reform of the judiciary and the judicial competency framework and standards, among others, in the scientific journal of the Institute for Comparative Law.

Her areas of interest are the importance, role and legal aspects of international cooperation and development support in the creation of public policies in the field of justice and public administration, including initiatives within the field of South-South cooperation.

Prof. Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov PhD is a legal professional with a diverse background in both practice and academia. She is a founding partner at Fernandez Jankov Legal Intelligence and is registered as a lawyer in Brazil at the Brazilian Bar, as well as in Portugal at the Portuguese Bar. Additionally, she represents the Russian Lawyers Guild in Brazil.

Her academic qualifications include law degrees from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Latin American Integration from the University of São Paulo and a Doctorate in Law from the Federal University in Paraná, Brazil.

With over 25 years of experience, Prof. Fernandez’s practice areas include Public Law, International Law, and Legal Theory. She has served as a senior researcher at the Institute of Comparative Law, and as a professor at the University of Belgrade Law School, lecturing in Judicial Protection in the European Union. She is currently a visiting professor of International Criminal Law at the Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil. Her book, “International Criminal Law,” is based on her doctoral thesis, which she researched at the University of Cambridge while serving as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. Currently, Prof. Fernandez is an associate member of STEP Switzerland and is pursuing her post-doctorate at the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Prof. Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov PhD is a legal professional with a diverse background in both practice and academia. She is a founding partner at Fernandez Jankov Legal Intelligence and is registered as a lawyer in Brazil at the Brazilian Bar, as well as in Portugal at the Portuguese Bar. Additionally, she represents the Russian Lawyers Guild in Brazil.

Her academic qualifications include law degrees from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Latin American Integration from the University of São Paulo and a Doctorate in Law from the Federal University in Paraná, Brazil.

With over 25 years of experience, Prof. Fernandez’s practice areas include Public Law, International Law, and Legal Theory. She has served as a senior researcher at the Institute of Comparative Law, and as a professor at the University of Belgrade Law School, lecturing in Judicial Protection in the European Union. She is currently a visiting professor of International Criminal Law at the Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil. Her book, “International Criminal Law,” is based on her doctoral thesis, which she researched at the University of Cambridge while serving as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. Currently, Prof. Fernandez is an associate member of STEP Switzerland and is pursuing her post-doctorate at the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Born in 1997 in Banja Luka where he completed elementary and high school. He completed his basic law studies with honors at the Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka in 2021. He completed his master’s studies in law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, defending his master’s thesis „Unconstitutionality of laws and administrative acts of constitutional court decisions on the unconstitutionality of laws on administrative acts“ under the mentorship of Zoran Tomić, PhD.

He is currently a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade at the Department of Public Law, and a master student at the Faculty of Philosophy in Banja Luka. He was awarded a scholarship from „Dr Milan Jelić“ Foundation and an April Award from the City of Banja Luka for his previous scientific research work.

He works as an Assistant at the Department of Administrative Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka on subjects in the narrow scientific field of administrative law, where he also performs the duties of the Department’s secretary.

He has been employed as an advisor in the Office of the President of the Republic of Srpska since 2022. He spent the academic 2016/2017 improving the German language at the University of Vienna, and in 2023 he participated in the international exchange of academic staff at the Saarland University (FR Germany). He is the president of the scientific association „Youth Scientific Initiative“ in Banja Luka.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska, and a member of several working groups for drafting of legal acts and by-laws in the Republic of Srpska. He published two scientific monographs and a dozen of scientific research papers in three foreign languages, of which ones particularly highlighted as those published at the Institute of Comparative Law. Administrative law, legal history, property and ecclesiastical law are areas of scientific interest.