Name and surname

Mirko Vasiljević

Academic title

Professor

Specific scientific area

Business Law

Relevant biographical data

Mirko Vasiljevic was born on October 11, 1949 in Pravoševo, municipality of Prijepolje. He finished elementary school in his place of birth, in Mileševa and in Prijepolje, and grammar school in Nova Varoš as the best student of his generation. He enrolled in studies at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1969 and graduated in June 1973 as an excellent student. He completed postgraduate studies in 1976 and doctoral studies in 1980 at the same faculty.

For two years after graduation he worked in the Legal department of the Automobile Factory in Priboj. In 1975 he was elected as assistant for the subject Commercial Law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. He was appointed as assistant professor for the same subject in 1980, associate professor in 1985 and professor in 1990. He was Vice-Dean of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in the period 1985-1987. He established the subject Company Law at this Faculty. He was elected as Dean of University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in academic years 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, re-elected for the second mandate period 2006-2009 and achieved the second re-election for the third mandate period 2009-2012. He is the chief of Department for Civil Law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law.

Academic career

Year

Institution

Area (topic)

Last academic promotion

1990.

University of Belgrade – Faculty of Law

N/A

Doctoral degree

1980.

University of Belgrade – Faculty of Law

“Executive board”

Master's degree/ Magister's degree

1976.

University of Belgrade – Faculty of Law

“Modified circumstances and construction contract”

Bachelor's degree

University of Belgrade – Faculty of Law

Law

Professional and scientific development (fellowships)

Using the scholarship of the French Government he spent academic year 1983/1984 at the Law Faculty Paris I – Sorbonne (Panthéon-Sorbonne), gaining specialization in the field of commercial companies, as part of commercial (business) law. On many occasions he was on one-month or two-month study stays in Paris, Bern, Poznan, Hamburg (Max Planck Institute) and London. He delivered lectures at postgraduate studies in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Podgorica, Maribor, Skoplje, Banja Luka and Hang Jou in China.

Foreign languages

French, English and Russian

List of courses held in the current academic year

Course title

Level of studies

Company Law, Commercial Law, Insurance Law, Transportation Law, Stock Exchange Law, Notary Law, International Commercial Law, Banking Law, Telecommunications Law

Undergraduate

Company Law, International Commercial Law, Bankruptcy Law, Transportation Insurance, Commercial Law Actions, Anglo-Saxon Contract Law, Banking Contract Law, Notary Law

Postgraduate - master's studies

Company Law, Commercial Law, International Commercial Law, Stock Exchange Law, Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law, Transportation Law, Banking Law

Postgraduate - doctoral studies

Important publications

1. Company Law: Law of Commercial Companies, (Kompanijsko pravo: pravo privrednih društava), ten editions, 10th edition, Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, 2017.
2. Company and Commercial Law: guidelines for bar examination, eight editions, 8^th edition, Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, 2017.
3. „Arbitrability Ratione Materiae in Company Law“, Pravni život  11/2017, 45-62.
4. „Theoretical Foundations of Shareholders' Rights to Appraisal (co-author: Vuk Radović), Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade 3/2017, 7-27.
5. „Objective Arbitrability in Company Law“, 25th conference of judges of commercial courts of the Republic of Serbia, Higher Commercial Court, Zlatibor 2017, 43-63.
6. „Арбитражное соглашение и доктрина ’компетенции-компетенции’: современныe тенденции“, Международный  коммерческий  арбитраж: вызовы cовремености – Сборник, Киев 2017, 57-73.
7. Commercial Law (Trgovinsko pravo), fifteen editions, 15^th edition, Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, 2016.
8. Selected Speeches (Izabrane besede), three editions, 3^3d edition, Association of Business Lawyers of Serbia, Belgrade, 2016.
9. Commercial and Economic Law : International Encyclopedia of Laws : Supplement 32: Serbia, co-authors: Milena Đorđević and Marko Jovanović, 3^rd edition, Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 2016.
10. „Law and Commercial Business”, Pravo i privreda 4-6/2016.
11. International Encyclopedia of Laws: Corporations and Partnerships (with Tatjana Jevremović Petrović), Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 2015.
12.  „Economy and New Serbian Civil Code”, Pravo i privreda 4-6/2015, 13-33.
13.  „Reform of Law in Economy”, Pravo i privreda 4-6/2014, 13-34.
14. „Moralization of the company“, Pravna riječ 40/2014, Association of Lawyers of Republic of Srpska, 623-648.
15. „Foreign investments in Serbian economy and state responsibility“, published within the project of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development (Ministry of Education and Science), Harmonization of Serbian Business Law with European Union Law, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, 2014, 9-27.
16. Corporate Governance - Selected Topics (Korporativno upravljanje - izabrane teme), Association of Business Lawyers of Serbia, Belgrade, 2013.
17.  „Corporate Social Responsibility (from Politics, over Morality to Law)”, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade 1/2013, 5-28.
18. „State and Economy”, Pravo i privreda 4-6/2013.
19. „Laws and Economy”, Pravo i privreda 4-6/2012, 13-34.
20. „Civil Law and Business Judgment Rule”, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, LX, No 3/2012, 7-38; serbian version: Pravni život 11/2011.
21. „Competition Law Enforcement in Serbia: Six Years of Staggering Along” (co-author: Dušan Popović), European Business Organization Law Review Vol. 13, Issue 1, T. M. C. Asser Press, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 141-158.
22. Guidelines for the application of the Law on Commercial Companies, Belgrade, 2011.
23. Law, Justice, Economy (Pravo, pravda, privreda), Belgrade-Banja Luka, 2009 – speech on the occasion of becoming a member of the Academy of Science and Art of the Republic of Srpska.
24. Corporate Governance: legal aspects (Korporativno upravljanje: pravni aspekti), Belgrade, 2007.
25. Company Law: Law of Commercial Companies of Serbia and the EU (English edition), Faculty of Law, Belgrade, 2006.
26. Commercial and Economic Law (English edition), Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1997.

Important participation at conferences

1.       XVIII International Congress of Comparative Law, organized by the International Academy for Comparative Law, Washington, 2010.

2.       Private Law in Eastern Europe – Autonomous Developments or Legal Transplants?, organized by Max Planck Institute for comparative and international private law from Hamburg and Institute for East European law of the Law Faculty of University Christian Albrecht from Kiel, Hamburg, 2009.

3.       The Impact of Uniform Law on National Law: Limits and possibilities; organized by the International Academy for Comparative Law, Mexico (2008).

4.       Thirty years from the Law on Obligations – de lege lata and de lege ferenda, Kragujevac, 2008.

5.       The actualities of the civil and commercial legislation and legal practice, Neum, 2008.

6.       The Lisbon Treaty – an (un)completed reform, Bulgaria, 2008.

7.       Bicentennial Symposium of the French Code of Commerce, Paris, 2007.

8.       Congresses of Business Lawyers of Serbia with international participation, 1991-2016.

9.       Kopaonik school of natural law, 1990-2015.

10.   IOSCO Congresses: Tokyo, 1994; Montreal, 1996; Taipei, 1997; Nairobi, 1998; Sydney, 2000.

11.   ICCA Congress (international arbitration): Seoul, 1996; New Delhi, 2000.

Current participation in scientific projects

Domestic:

1. Project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development: „Harmonization of Serbian Business Law with European Union Law“.

2. Project of the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law: „Serbia's Identity Transformation“.

International:

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Membership in scientific and professional organizations

1.       Founder and president of the Business Lawyers Association of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) now Serbia (1991 -  ).

2.       Editor in chief of journal “Law and Economy”, published by above mentioned Association (from 1991 - ).

3.       Editor in chief of journal “Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade” (from 2015 - ).

4.       Member of the Serbian Government Committee for drafting Serbian Civil Code.

5.       President of the Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration at Serbian Chamber of Commerce – now: Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (from 2014 - ).

6.       Arbitrator in other institutional arbitrations at chambers of commerce of: Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Republic of Srpska, Montenegro and Malesia.

7.       President of Court of Honor at Belgrade Chamber of Commerce.

8.       Arbitrator in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce Committee for the Resolution of Disputes Relating to the Registration of National Internet Domains.

9.       Member of the International Court of Arbitration (as authorized representative of the Republic of Serbia) and Arbitration Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

10.   Arbitrator in International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Washington.

11.   Member of the Serbian Ministry of Justice Committee for the bar examination.

12.   Member of the Serbian Ministry of Justice Committee for public notary examination.

13.   Member of Federal Legal Council of Yugoslavia as well as a member of Commission for securities and financial market (1992-2001).

14.   Founder of annual congresses of business lawyers of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) which have been traditionally held every year in the last decade of May in Vrnjačka Banja (1991-2016 – twenty five congresses) and from 2017 on Zlatibor, which regularly every year gather around five hundred of business lawyers as well as affirmed professors from Serbia and abroad.

15.   Member of the International Academy for Comparative Law in Paris (from June 2007).

16.   Member of the Presidium of Association of lawyers of Serbia and of the Presidium of the Federation of associations of lawyers of Serbia and Republic of Srpska.

17.   Member of the Academy of Science and Arts of the Republic of Srpska (2008).

18.   Member of the Business Council of Belgrade Chamber of Commerce (2008).

19.   Member of the Economic Council of the Management Board of Patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church (2010).

20.   Member of the Management Board of the Foundation "Dositej Obradović" (2012).

21.   President of the Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration at Yugoslavian Chamber of Commerce in two mandate periods (1995-2001).

22.   Editor in chief of journal “Arbitration”.

23.   Arbitrator and president of Arbitration Tribunal in more institutional arbitrations, commercial and investment, as well as ad hoc arbitrations.

Аwards and Recognitions

1. He gained the Saint Sava Orden, the second level (2007).
2. He is honorable citizen of Vrnjačka Banja (2010) – Diploma with golden emblem for exquisite contribution in promotion and affirmation of Vrnjačka Banja in the segment of congress tourism.
3. He and his family received recognition from Episcope of Mileševa Filaret for benefaction in building of the residence of the monastery of Saint Kozma and Damjan at Vodena Poljana on mountain Zlatar (2010).

Other relevant data

Extra-curricular activities and functions, professional activities, previous work experience:

1.       He is the founder of the Foundation “Professor Dr Mirko Vasiljević”, which aims at helping the best and socially the most handicapped students of University of Belgrade Faculty of Law at basic academic studies, as encouragement for the further continuation of academic education, above all in the field of commercial, company, bankruptcy, stock exchange and transport law.

2.       He is benefactor of the residence of the monastery of Saint Kozma and Damjan at Vodena Poljana on mountain Zlatar.

3.       He donated two bells for wooden church at Vodena Poljana.

4.       He has been significantly supporting and personally contributing to activities of the first humanitarian foundation “Smile as a gift” and the Foundation “Ancient Raška”.

5.       Manager of expert groups for the making of more economic laws, such as:

1.       Draft Law on Enterprises (1996)

2.       Draft Law on Property Transformation (1997),

3.       Draft Law on Securities Market (2001),

4.       Draft Law on Chambers of Commerce (2015).

6.       Leading legal expert for the making of Draft Law on Commercial Companies of Serbia (2004).

7.       He prepared the project for the Serbian Government “Law on specific rules of privatization of public and communal enterprises” and the project of the founding of the National Privatization Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2006).

8.       Manager of the expert group of Serbian Chamber of Commerce for the making of: a) Corporate Governance Code (2006) and b) Business Ethics Code (2006).

9.       Manager of the expert group for the preparation of reorganization of Serbian Chamber of Commerce (2008).

10.   Member of expert group for the making of Draft law on mediation (2008).

11.   In many joint-stock companies he worked as member of expert groups for privatization, takeover or capital increase.