Venice Commission of the Council of Europe

Judge, Constitutional Court, Professor, Law Faculty, Belgrade University

EDUCATION

• PhD: Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, 2002-2005
• Postgraduate studies: Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, 1999-2002
• Undergraduate studies, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, 1994-1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, 2000 – present;
• Judge of the Constitutional Court of Serbia, 2019- present;
• Bar examiner for the subject Constitutional Law and Judicial Organization Law, 2017- present;
• Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of Law Faculty of Belgrade, 2012-2018;
• Acting Dean of Law Faculty Belgrade, April-September 2018;
• President of the Amnesty Committee of the President of the Republic, 2015-2019;
• President of the managing board of the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade, 2019;
• Full Professor of Constitutional Law and Parliamentary Law, 2016;
• Course coordinator of the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 2012-2014, 2020-present;
• Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Parliamentary Law, 2011-2016;
• Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, 2006- 2011;
• Teaching Assistant, 2000-2006.

MEMEBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND WORKING GROUPS

• Editor of The Journal of Legal and Social Sciences; 2019-present;
• Member of the International Advisory and Peer Review Board of the Central European Journal of Comparative Law, 2020 – present;
• Member of the Working Group for Carying out a Legal Analysis of the Constitutional Framework of Judiciary, 2014;
• Associate of The Public Law Centre (Sarajevo) 2012-2016;
• Editor of the Constitutional Law Section at the Kopaonik School of Law 2009-present;
• Member of the Editorial Staff of The Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (Journal of Legal and Social Sciences) 2007-2018;
• Member of the Government Commission for the Election of Vice-director of the Government Legislative Council 2007;
• Member of the Working group at the Ministry of Justice for making of the Constitutional Court Law of Serbia 2007.

MOST SIGNIFICANT WORKS (Books in Serbian)

• Constitutional Law, V. Petrov, M. Stankovic, Belgrade, 2020;
• Constitutional Law, V. Petrov, D. Simovic, Belgrade 2014 (2018);
• Human Rights, D. Simovic, M. Stankovic, V. Petrov, Begrade 2018;
• Constitutional Justice in the Former Yugoslav Republics - Norm, Theory, Practice, O. Vucic, V. Petrov, D. Simovic, Belgrade, 2010;
• Parliamentary Law, Belgrade, 2010 (2015, 2017);
• The English Constitution, Belgrade, 2007;
• The Conflict between Two Chambers in Bicameral System, Belgrade, 2004.

DIPLOMAS

Diploma of International Academy of Constitutional Law, (Tunis), 2005

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Serbian (native),English (advanced), French (intermediate), German (basic level)

FIELDS OF INTEREST/AREA OF EXPERTISE

Constitutional principles -Rule of Law, Internationalization of constitutional law, Constitutional identity, Constitutional justice, Judiciary, Parliamentary law; System of Government, Political parties.