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Personal Website Biographical Details Sima Avramovic, S.J.D., Professor of Law at the University of
Belgrade Faculty of Law is regarded as one of the foremost Serbian
authorities on comparative law, legal history, Roman law, and rhetoric.
Avramovic has a command of seven languages, including
English, German, Greek, French, Italian, Russian and Serbian, and knows two
classical languages – ancient Greek and Latin. He has over one hundred books
and articles to his credit. Selected scholarship includes the pioneering
books Rhetorike Techne (2008), State-Church Law in Serbia (2007), Comparative
Legal Traditions (2006), Аrs Rhetorica (2002), General Legal History
(2001), The Court Speeches of Isaeus and the Law of Athens (1988), Early
Greek Law and the Code of Gortyn (1977), Evolution of Testamentary Freedom in
Ancient Greek Law (1981), Foundations of Modern Democracy, Selected
Declarations and Charters on Human Rights (1989). Recent articles include
“Searching for the New Law on Religious Freedom in Serbia” (European Academy
of Sciences and Arts, Weimar 2006), “Simulation of
Athenian Court – A New Teaching Method” in the Balkans Law Review (2006),
“The Rhetra of Epithadeus and Testament in Spartan Law” (Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Vienna 2005), et al. His book Ars Rhetorica was proclaimed as Book
of the Year 2002 (FRY Official Gazette Award) and he received the prestigious
Italian award Premio romanistico internationale “Gérard Boulvert” for the
Italian translation of the book Court Speeches of Isaeus and the Law of
Athens. In 1984, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Maryland. Avramovic extensively serves as an eminent lecturer at
leading universities in Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, the United
States, Germany, England and Scotland. His current academic assignments
include the following: President of the Commission for the University of
Belgrade Bologna Follow Up, President of the Statutory Commission of the University of Belgrade, Member of
the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts,
Editor-in-Chief of the law journal Annals of the Faculty of Law
in Belgrade, Member of the Universities’ of Serbia Conference, Member
of the Section for Sources of Serbian Law at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and
Arts, President of the Center for Cooperation among Religious Communities,
President of the Society for Roman Law and Classics Forum
Romanum, President of the Alan
Watson Foundation (an international group of legal scholars) and he leads
the Center for Oratory Institutio oratoria.
In addition, Avramovic is the founder of the monthly bulletin of the
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law (Acta
Diurna). He is also an editorial board member for the General
Encyclopedia of Law, the Journal of Matica Srpska for Classical Studies, and
the European Lawyer Journal. Avramovic holds the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws
and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees from the University of Belgrade. Contact Information Faculty of Law University of Belgrade Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 67 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia Phone: (381) 11-302-7652 Fax: (381) 11-322-1299 Email: info@simaavramovic.org |
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