Main Activity of the Institute

The main activity of the Institute of Comparative Law is comparative research. From its founding to the beginning of nineties, the Institute performed its operation lege artis and in accordance with international standards. Since then, the Institute operates in extremely unfavourable conditions, without contemporary legal literature and without enough equipment. However, it succeeded to preserve its main activity.
The beginning of XXI century brought new chances for the Institute of Comparative Law to continue its operation successfully.

Institute of Comparative Law:

• collects, translates and researches data on legislation, legal science and practice in other countries and analyses important issues of international and comparative law;

• researches the European Union law and is engaged in the harmonisation of Yugoslav law with the European law;

• through its publications and in other ways, informs the Yugoslav professional public on foreign and international law and acquaints the foreign public with the situation in Yugoslav legislation, practice and achievements in legal science;

• performs fundamental researches in the comparative and international law domain;

• participates in the reform of legislation, especially by law drafting in various fields, gives expert opinions, makes elaborates, studies, analyses etc.;

• publishes monographs, periodicals and other publications;

• organises scientific conferences and expert meetings regarding especially significant and current issues;

• cooperates with corresponding scientific and expert institutions in country and abroad;

• collects and keeps necessary documentation (collections of regulations, official gazettes, books, periodicals, etc).

Cooperation of Institute of Comparative Law with the similar institutions

Institute permanently cooperates with domestic partners:

    Institute of European Studies
    Institute of International Commerce
    Institute of Criminology and Sociology Researches
    Institute of Humanity Sciences
    Faculty of Law in Belgrade
    Faculty of Law in Novi Sad
    Faculty of Law in Kragujevac
    Institute of Economic and Social Researches
    Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
    Centre for Advanced Legal Studies,
and from time to time with the other similar institutions and no governmental organizations.

Institute permanently cooperates with foreign partners:

    Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy – France
    Institute for Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland
    Aire Centre, London, UK
    Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
    Europe Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

    From the beginning of 2001, Institute of Comparative Law is in long term and also from time to time aided and supported by:

• Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection)
• Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia
• Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia
• Ministry of human and Minority Rights of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
• Ministry of Diaspora
• Ministry of Defence
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
• Open Society Fund Belgrade
• Centre culturelle français
• GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, GmbH)
• Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung
• USAID

Links

Ministarstvo nauke i zaštite životne sredine www.mntr.sr.gov.yu/mntr
Kancelarija za pridruživanje EU www.seio.sr.gov.yu

Institut za kriminološka i sociološka istraživanja www.iksi.bg.ac.yu
Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu www.diplomacy.bg.ac.yu
Pravni fakultet u Beogradu www.ius.bg.ac.yu
Pravni fakultet u Novom Sadu www.pravni.ns.ac.yu
Pravni fakultet u Kragujevcu www.jura.kg.ac.yu

Beogradski centar za ljudska prava www.bgcentar.org.yu
Centar za unapređivanje pravnih studija www.cups.org.yu
Centar za mir i razvoj demokratije www.caa.org.yu

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation www.sdc.admin.ch
Francuski kulturni centar (Centre culturelle français) www.ccf.org.yu
GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, GmbH) www.gtz.de
Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung www.boell.de
Fond za otvoreno društvo, Beograd www.fosyu.org
USAID serbia-montenegro.usaid.gov
Beogradski fond za političku izuzetnost www.bfpe.org

Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces – DCAF www.dcaf.ch
Institute for Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland www.federalism.ch
Aire Centre, London, UK www.airecentre.org
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary www.ceu.hu