DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Head
of the Department: Professor Bernadet Bordaš, Ph.D.
Secretary
of the Department: Bojan Tubić, Assistant
Members of the Department:
Rodoljub
Etinski, Ph.D., Full Professor
Maja
Stanivuković, Ph.D., Full Professor
Bernadet
Bordaš, Ph.D., Full Professor
Sanja
Đajić Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Petar Đundić, Assistant
Bojan Tubić, Assitant
Full Professor
Born in Novi Sad in 1952. He graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 1975. In 1978 he earned his LL.M. degree from the Belgrade Law Faculty with thesis “International Legal Framework for Utilization of International Rivers and Lakes for Irrigation and Production of Hydroelectric Power”. In 1981 he defended doctoral dissertation “Internationally Wrongful Act as a Source of International State Responsibility” at the same law faculty. In 1980 he was elected for the assistant at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law and promoted to the position of assistant professor in 1982. In 1987 he was elected for the associate professor and in 1992 for the full professor. He teaches courses in Public International Law and International Relations. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law Scientific Journal. He is Coordinator of the Faculty research Project: Serbian and European Law – Theoretical, Sociological, Historical, Positive Law and Economic Aspects.
Professor Rodoljub Etinski attended academic advancement programmes at the Hague Academy for International Law and London University.
He served as the Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad. He held position of the Chief Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of FR Yugoslavia (1994-2000). He acted as the Agent of FR Yugoslavia in cases before the International Court of Justice in the Hague regarding the disputes on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. FR Yugoslavia (1993-2000); Croatia v. FR Yugoslavia (1999-2000)) and Legality of the Use of Force (FR Yugoslavia v. Belgium and others (1999-2000). He was Chargé d’ Affairs of the Yugoslav Embassy in Netherlands (2000-2002).
In September 2004, he was elected for Vice-Dean for Study Affairs of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law.
Area of academic interest: dispute settlements in international law, state responsibility, international traffic law, environmental law, human rights, EU law.
Professor Rodoljub Etinski, Ph.D. published around 40 articles.
Languages: English, German.
Books:
1. Rodoljub Etinski, International Legal Regulation of Navigation on the Shipping Waterway of the Rhine-Main-Danube, Forum, Novi Sad, 1985.
2. Rodoljub Etinski – S. Đorđević – Milenko Kreća – I. Čukalović – M. Ristić, Public International Law Materials, vols.I-III, Dnevnik, Novi Sad, 1989.
3. Rodoljub Etinski, Basic Sources of International Traffic Law, Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, 1991.
4. Rodoljub Etinski – Zoran Stojanović – Jožef Salma – Dušanka Đurđev, Environmental Law, Naučna knjiga, Belgrade, 1991.
5. Rodoljub Etinski, Public International Law, University of Novi Sad, 2002., 2nd edition, Publishing Center of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law, 2004.
6. Rodoljub Etinski, Sanja Đajić, Test Questions for Public International Law, Publishing Center of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, 2003.
e-mail: etinski@pf.ns.ac.yu
Full Professor
Born in Bačka Topola in 1963. She graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 1985 and from the Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy (Group for English language and literature) in 1986. In 1989 she received LL.M. degree from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad with thesis “Property Rights of Aliens”. She received her second LL.M. degree from the Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) in 1991. In 1994 she defended her doctoral dissertation “Direct International Jurisdiction of Courts in Civil and Commercial Matters in the Laws of the USA, EEC, and EFTA”. In 1986 she was elected to the position of assistant at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law. In 1995 she was promoted to assistant professor, to associate professor in 2000, and full professor in 2005. She teaches the course in Private International Law to law students and students of the Internal Affairs studies group, as well as elective courses in Introduction to European Union Law, Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Law, Legal English and Consumer Protection. At the postgraduate studies in International Law, she teaches courses in Private International Law, Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Law and European Union Law. She is Coordinator of the postgraduate studies in Civil and Commercial Law of the European Union.
She had study visits to the Hague Academy for International Law as a recipient of the scholarship awarded by Dutch government; Academy for European Law of the European Institute in Florence as a recipient of the Academy’s fellowship in 2000; Institute for International Law of the Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1990; Cornell University in New York as a Fulbright scholar during 1990/91; London School of Economics as the recipient of the fellowship awarded by the Chevening Fellowship Programme in 2003. During 2003/2004 academic year, she was a visiting professor at the Vienna Faculty of Law, the Leuven Faculty of Law, and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2004/2005, she taught at the postgraduate studies programme at the Maribor Faculty of Law and once more visited the London School of economics and Political Science as a Chevening Scholarship recipient. Since 2000, she has been acting as an arbiter at the international competition Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot in Vienna.
Professor Maja Stanivuković, Ph.D. was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad (2000-2002) and Head of the Department of International Law and International Relations (1999-2002). From April 2005 she is the Chairman of the Library Board of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law.
She is listed as the arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration in Belgrade, as well as of the International Commercial Arbitration of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka. She is the member of the Commission for Publishing and Translation at the Office for European Integrations of Serbia and Montenegro, as well as the member of the Council for EUROVOC. She is member of the Commission for the reform of legislation on procedure and of the Commission for drafting the Act on Arbitration. She is member of the Executive Board of the European Law Association, and member of Comparative Law Association, Yugoslav Society of International Law and American Society of International Law. She is also on editing boards of several journals: European Law Review, Arbitration, and Yugoslav Law/Droit Yugoslave. She is the official legal expert appointed by the Federal Ministry of Development and Science.
Area of academic interest: international commercial arbitration; international civil procedure; international sale of goods; private international law of the European Union; consumer protection, and private international law aspects of consumer protection.
Professor Maja Stanivuković, Ph.D. has published five books and around 45 other academic writings. Languages: English, French.
Since 1988, she has been a Permanent Court Interpreter for the English Language at the District Court in Novi Sad.
Books:
1. Maja Stanivuković, International Jurisdiction of Courts in the Laws of the
USA, European Union and EFTA, Publishing Center of the Novi Sad Law Faculty,
Novi Sad, 1995. (in Serbian)
2. Maja Stanivuković, Textbook for Private International Law, SCI, Novi Sad,
1999. (in Serbian)
3. Mirko Zivković, Maja Stanivuković, Encyclopedia of Laws - Private
International Law, Supplement 1: Serbia and Montenegro, Kluwer Law
International, The Hague, London, New York, 2001. (in English)
4. Maja Stanivuković, Mirko Zivković, Private International Law - General
Chapters, Službeni list Srbije i Crne Gore, Belgrade, 2004. (in Serbian)
5. Mladen Draskić, Maja Stanivuković, Contract Law of International Trade,
Službeni list Srbije i Crne Gore, Belgrade, 2005. (in Serbian)
6. Maja Stanivuković, Mirko Zivković, Encyclopedia of Laws - Private
International Law, Supplement 10: Serbia and Montenegro, Kluwer Law
International, The Hague, London, New York, 2006. (in English)
7. Mirko Zivković, Maja Stanivuković, Private International Law - General
Chapters, second edition, Službeni list Srbije i Crne Gore, Belgrade, 2006.
(in Serbian)
e-mail: stanivuk@pf.ns.ac.yu
Full Professor
Born in Novi Sad in 1951. She graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in January 1976. She was elected for the assistant in 1976. In 1984 she received her LL.M. degree from the Belgrade Faculty of Law having defended thesis “State Immunity and Immunity of Diplomatic and Consular Agents in Private International Law”. She defended her doctoral dissertation “Conflict of Laws in Contracts on Technology Transfer with Foreign Element” at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad in 1989. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and to Full Professor in 2006. She teaches courses in Private International Law, International Family Law and Settlement of Disputes in Private International Law. In 2004, she was elected the Head of the Department of International Law and International Relations.
She visited Columbia University (New York, USA) and University in Leiden (Netherlands) in 1976; ASSER
Institute for public and private international law and international commercial arbitration, Den Haag (Netherlands), from December 1997 to March 1998. She held the position of senior researcher at the Central European University Budapest (1999-2001). In 2005, she visited the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg.
In October 2003 she was elected for the member of the Publishing Council of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law Publishing Center.
Area of academic interest: family law with foreign elements, European law, directly applicable norms.
Languages: English.
Books:
1. Bernadet Bordaš, Family Relations in Private International Law, Forum, Novi Sad, 2000.
2. Tibor Varadi – Bernadet Bordaš – Gašo Knežević, Private International Law, Forum, Novi Sad, 2001, 2003.
e-mail: bernadet@pf.ns.ac.yu
Sanja Đajić, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Born in Zrenjanin in 1971. She graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 1995. In 1999 she received LL.M. degree from the Belgrade Law Faculty with thesis “Preliminary Objections in the Procedure before the International Court of Justice”. During the same year she earned the second LL.M. degree from the UCONN School of Law (Connecticut, USA) with thesis “The Effect of the ICJ Decisions on Municipal Courts with Special Reference to Breard Case”. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in May 2003 having defended dissertation “Relationship between International and National Legal Systems with Special Reference to the Effect of International Judicial Decisions”. In 1995 she was elected for the assistant at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law for the course in Public International Law and in October 2003 she was promoted to the position of assistant professor. She teaches courses in Public International Law, Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, International Caselaw (Legal Clinic) and Legal English. She also teaches at the postgraduate studies and at the specialization course Human Rights in Europe. She participated in a number of educational and professional projects.
Sanja Đajić had several study visits abroad: Netherlands (1997) at the Hague Academy for International Law; UK (1998); USA (1998-1999) at the postgraduate course as a recipient of the U.S. government scholarship (Ron Brown Fellowship Program); Italy (2000) at the Academy for European Law of the European Institute in Florence, as the recipient of the scholarship awarded by the Academy; UK (2002) at the London School of Economics as a recipient of the UK government scholarship (Chevening Scholarship); Belgium (2002) at the Universiteit Leuven (Coimbra Group Hospitality Scheme scholarship); and during 2003/2004 and 2005she was at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics as the recipient of the LSE scholarship.
She is a member of several associations and institutions: Yugoslav Association for International Law, Association for European Union Law, Ron Brown Alumni Association, Connecticut Alliance of International Lawyers, European Movement, Forum Iuris, and Social Sciences Board of Matica Srpska. She was a member of the Amnesty Commission at the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia in 2003. She has been the Permanent Court Interpreter for English Language since 2002 at the District Court in Novi Sad. She is a permanent associate of the International Law Reports (Cambridge), as a rapporteur on the jurisprudence of Serbia and Montenegro regarding international law before national courts.
Area of academic interest: international law, relationship between international and national law, peaceful settlement of international disputes, European human rights.
Sanja Đajic published around 20 academic writings.
Languages: English (fluent), French, Spanish.
Books:
1. Rodoljub Etinski, Sanja Djajić, Test Questions for Public International Law, Publishing Center of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, 2003.
2. Sanja Đajić, International and National Courts: From Conflict to Cooperation, Publishing Center of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, 2004.
e-mail: sjadjic@pf.ns.ac.yu
Petar
Đundić
Born in Novi Sad in 1978. He graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 2002. In 2003 he was elected for the position of assistant for the course in Private International Law.
He passed the oral examination for his masters’ degree, in February 2005.
Area of academic interest: rights of aliens, international jurisdiction, international sale of goods, and applicable law for torts.
He is the author of two academic works.
Languages: English, German.
e-mail: djundic@pf.ns.ac.yu
Born in Osijek in 1980. He graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 2003 with GPA 9.33. During the same year he was elected to the position of assistant for the course in Public International Law. He is currently the Secretary of the Department of International Law and International Relations. During the course of his studies he was a member of the Faculty teams which participated in international moot court competitions.
He is a forth year student at the Novi Sad faculty of Philosophy (Department of History).
He had several study visits abroad: Budapest (Hungary) 2003, Washington D.C. (USA) 2004 and 2005, Graz (Austria) 2005.
Area of academic interest: EU law, human rights.
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
e-mail: tubic@pf.ns.ac.yu
FORMER MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Aleksandar Magarašević,
Ph.D., Full Professor (1959-1978)
Academic
Tibor Varadi, Ph.D., Full Professor (1963-1993)
Dejan
Janča, Ph.D., Associate Professor (1970-1993)
Zoran
Pavlović, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (1976-1998)
Nikola
Nikolić, Assistant (1972-1979)