Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, where she defended her doctoral dissertation cum laude in the field of European Union law, at the Department of Public International Law, Law Faculty University of Belgrade.

Gordana Gasmi holds a Certificate of international specialization in investment law at the International Organization for Development Law in Rome (www.idlo.org). She collaborates with international governmental and non-governmental organizations in research, academic and advisory-expert functions. She speaks, writes and teaches in English and French, and speaks Italian.

She was the official expert representative of Serbia in the CAHVIO Committee of the Council of Europe (2009/2011), Strasbourg. Starting from 2011 until today, as an expert of the Council of Europe, she has held numerous seminars in English and French in many member countries of the Council of Europe on topics related to the protection of human rights and the rule of law. Expert engagement within the regional UNDP project Ex-ante Policy Impact assessment in the previous period, under the auspices of UNDP from Bratislava (headquarters for Europe), is significant. She was the national legal adviser of the International Organization for Migration (www.iom.org) on the two-year CARDS Regional Project of the European Union (EU) on harmonizing the migration policy, legislation and administrative practice of Serbia and Montenegro with EU standards in migration matters, when she collaborated intensively with the competent ministries of Serbia and Montenegro. She worked as a legal advisor to the EU Policy & Legal Advice Center (PLAC), a project of the European Union providing expert assistance to the governments of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro on issues of joining the European Union. She was a special adviser for negotiations with the EU, in the capacity of a UN expert, at the Government of Serbia and Montenegro.

She is an active participant in numerous international and domestic academic conferences, she was a lecturer at the Summer School of European Foreign Policy in Berlin, organized by the German Institute for Foreign Affairs. Furthermore, she was a guest lecturer at the Center for Geo-Strategic Studies at the Sorbonne, at the École Normale Superieure in Paris. She was a guest lecturer at the University of San Servolo in Venice, a guest lecturer at the Montesquieu University in Bordeaux, France, a guest lecturer at the Greek Institute of Administrative Law in Thessaloniki and a guest lecturer at an international conference organized by the “Paul Negulsecu” Institute for Administrative Sciences in Sibiu, Romania. Prof. Dr. Gordana Gasmi is a regular visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of Dimitrie Cantemir University in Romania, where she is also a member of the Scientific Board, a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal of the University “Fiat Iustitia”, EBSCO, OAJ, CEEOL, RePEc and a reviewer of the journal.

She has published numerous books, monographic studies and expert works in the field of international law in Serbian and English, among which: “Human rights and artificial intelligence” (co-authored with D. Prlja and V. Korać, 2022), “Artificial intelligence in the EU legal system” (co-author with D. Prlja and V. Korać, 2021), “Quo Vadis EU? – Relevant legal and institutional factors”, IUP, Belgrade, 2016, “Law and foundations of European Union law” (2012, 2013), “Legal and Political Coordination of National Systems with the European System – a view from the Western Balkans Region” (pp. 57–90), La Revue d’Etudes Politiques et Constitutionenelles Est-Europeennes (Numero special, Philippe Claret (Ed), Universite Montesquieu, Bordeaux, France, December 2008). Her recent publications include printed and electronic editions in English and Serbian, including a legal commentary on the Istanbul Convention of the Council of Europe, as well as numerous other studies in scientific journals on various issues of international law and law of the European Union.

Dr. Aleksandra Rabrenovic is a senior research associate at the Institute for Comparative Law in Belgrade, where she has been working since 2007.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade, her master’s studies (LLM) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and her doctoral studies (PhD) at the Faculty of Law at the University of Glasgow, UK. She started her professional career in 1995 at the “Ninković” law office.

In 1997 she started working as a researcher and teacher of administrative law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. From 1999 to 2003, she was on postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom. After returning to Serbia, she worked as a consultant for the World Bank Office for Serbia, and on various international projects in public administration reform in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Tajikistan, Moldova, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan.

Her main area of expertise is human resource management in the public sector. She published three books and a large number of papers in the field of public administration reform in Serbian and English language.

She speaks English, and has good knowledge of Russian, as well as basic knowledge of French 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) that was created under the European Union’s auspices by thirty law schools and research institutes from the EU Member States. Ms. Matijević 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, she 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 projects funded by the European Union, the United Nations, etc.

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 and socio-economic 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.

Biografija

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, graduating in 2013. She participated in the “Vojin Dimitrijević” Summer School of Human Rights organized by the Belgrade Center for Human Rights. Anja also contributed to the non-governmental organization “Pro bono,” providing free legal aid. 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 successfully defended her predoctoral research paper titled “Bureaucratic legal consciousness: perception of the right to access information of public importance in public authorities in the Republic of Serbia,” achieving a grade of 10. Anja passed both oral doctoral exams with the highest grades and fulfilled other program requirements by the second year of her doctoral studies. 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, social theory, and psychology of law, focusing particularly on legal consciousness studies, compliance with the law, functions of law, and law effectiveness.

Aleksandar Mihajlović was born on November 24^th 1991 in Niš, where he graduated from the “Vožd Karađorđe” Elementary School with excellent results, as well as from the Gymnasium “9. May”, when he was awarded the “Vuk Karadžić” diploma and a certificate of commendation from the Royal House of Karađorđević for outstanding success in completed secondary education. He 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 1^st 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.

Aleksandar received the “Dositeja” scholarship awarded by the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia, the scholarship for PhD students given by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, as well as was a scholarship holder of the European Forum Alpbach (as a participant and an assistant of the program).

Aleksandar Mihajlović attended numerous seminars and educational programs, such as: Master Class “Regulating Artificial Intelligence: Legal and Ethical Challenges” (Faculty of Organizational Sciences, the University of Belgrade and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia, Belgrade/Novi Sad, October-December 2023); “New Challenges for European Integration: The Ukrainian War and its implications for the European Union and the countries of the Western Balkans” (SEELS Network and Europa Institute, Saarland University, Split, Croatia, September 2023); “Impact Assessment of Regulations – the Path to Quality Regulations”, “Methodology of Legislative Drafting”, “Public Participation in the Process of Drafting Regulations and Public Policy Documents” (National Academy for Public Administration, Belgrade, 2022-2023); School of Human Rights “Vojin Dimitrijević” (Belgrade Center for Human Rights, November-December 2020); “Emerging International Leaders Programme about Freedom of Religion or Belief” (Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2019-2020).

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.

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.

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.