Serbia

Republic of Serbia: Supreme Court of Cassation

Website of the Serbian Supreme Court of Cassation, providing information in English about the court system in Serbia and about the Court of Cassation in particular. English translations of court rules and related legislation available under 'Normative framework', together with an English-language excerpt from the Constitution of Serbia. The Serbian version of the site includes selected decisions of the Supreme Court of Cassation, the Supreme Court of Serbia, the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. 

Republic of Serbia: Ministry of Justice

Official website of the Serbian Ministry of Justice. The English version of the site outlines the role of the ministry, which has responsibility for criminal and commercial jurisprudence, court administration and the organisation of judicial bodies and the legal profession. There is also information in English on the departments of the Ministry covering European Integration, international legal aid and the judiciary; the international legal aid page includes English translations of relevant legislation. The site is also available in Serbian and Croatian.

OSCE Mission to Serbia

This page of the OSCE Mission to Serbia focuses on the work of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Department of the organisation. Activities include reform of the Serbian judicial system (specifically the criminal justice system), anti-corruption, prison reform and human rights institutions. The site provides access to publications by the organisation relating to Serbian laws and legal system. There are currently reports on the following: judicial institutions; the prison system; the law making process; anti-corruption institutions and criminal procedure. These can be downloaded as PDFs.

Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia

Website of the Serbian Official Gazette published by Public Enterprise Official Gazette. The Gazette includes published acts of the Serbian National Assembly, the President, Constitutional Court and other official bodies. The site also offers a subscription service to Serbian laws in English covering the political system, business, investment, taxation, finance and intellectual property. The site can be viewed in Serbian and English.

Avalon Project : Dayton Peace Accords

The Dayton Peace Accords sought to achieve a peaceful settlement to the Balkans conflict in 1995. They relate to the positions of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and Yugoslavia. This website, which is available as part of the Avalon Project maintained by Yale University, contains the text of the agreement and its appendixes. The appendixes include letters from Slobodan Milosevic and the US Department of State Dispatch.

Guide to legal research in Serbia

Online guide to the law and legal materials of Serbia written by Linda Tashbook who is the Foreign International Comparative Law Librarian at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law's Barco Law Library and Marko Zivanov a Serbian lawyer currently pursuing a J.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. The guide was published in 2009 (and updated in 2015) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

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