First director and founder of the Institute of Comparative Law was professor Borislav Blagojevic
Professor Borislav T. Blagojevic was born in 1911 in Valjevo. He graduated at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1933, and already in 1934 he acquired his PhD also at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where he started his career as a university professor. He was a docent and non-tenure professor at the Faculty of Law in Subotica. After the Second World War, professor Blagojevic continued his university career at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, firstly as a non-tenure, and afterwards as a tenure professor. In the period between 1956 and 1963 he was the rector of Belgrade University.

    Professor Blagojevic also developed his scientific and pedagogical work abroad, where he published numerous monographs, gave numerous lectures, among others at the International Faculty of Comparative Law, where he was a professor. He was an editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law - State and Economy - and president of World Association for Comparative Law. Professor Blagojevic was actively engaged in the development of legal system on international scale, through participation in the work of numerous international gatherings, congresses, symposiums, conferences etc, especially as a regular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in The Hague and as a member of the Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law in Rome. He was a honorary doctor at the University of Poznanj, and honorary doctor of the University in Clairmont-Ferran.

    Blagojevic, LLM was also an associate of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Art and member of the Scientific Association of Serbia. A particularly important part of his scientific work was aimed at the development of Yugoslav legal system and social relations, which he accomplished through his engagement as a head or member of a number of institutions and associations. He founded the Institute of Comparative Law and was its director for many years. The organisation and the activity of the Institute as he established them, remained substantially untouched until present day. Professor Blagojevic was one of the most published authors in the history of Yugoslav civil-law literature. He wrote and published more than two hundred scientific papers, many of them being textbooks and large monographs such as: Enforcement Procedure System, Roman Law (special part), Civil Law Contracts, International Private Law, Inheritance Law, Principles of Private Procedural Law, Legal Status and Contracts of State-Owned Commercial Enterprises, Science on Citizenship, Adhesion Contracts, Contracts on Scientific and Research Work, etc.

    With his entire work, professor Blagojevic has significantly and evidently contributed to the rising of the reputation of our legal science, both in our country and abroad, and become renown in Yugoslav and international scientific public.

    He passed away proudly, just as he lived, in 1985.

Besides Professor Blagojevic, the permanent and personal contribution to the work of the Institute of Comparative Law was left by Professor Vladimir Jovanovic, who was the Director of the Institute in the period from 1979 to 1993.  His life achievements were extensive and hence it is very difficult to be brief. We shall mention the most important achievements. Professor Jovanovic was born in 1923 in Bela Crkva. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1950 where he also completed his PhD studies in 1955 with the thesis “The right of an insurer towards the third liable party”. His academic career was developed at the Law Faculty in Belgrade. He was chosen as a lecturer in the same year when he defended his PhD thesis. He was promoted to the position of an associate professor in 1960 and became a full professor in 1966. In 1965 he received a diploma from the European University Centre in Nancy. The professional contribution of professor Jovanovic is significant. Some of the most important positions are the following:  the Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Belgrade and visiting professor at many European and world universities (Paris, Cairo, Alexandria, Strasbourg, and Lisbon). He contributed to the international congress of comparative law held in Budapest, Melbourne, Sidney and Brazil. Professor Jovanovic was a manager of numerous scientific and research projects for the Republic Science Community, the president of the Association of lawyers in Yugoslav commerce, the president of the Chosen Court of the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, the arbiter of the External Commercial Arbitration within the Chamber of Commerce of Yugoslavia and the arbiter of many ad hoc arbitrations as well as the supervisor of numerous master and PhD theses.  The number of his published works in domestic and foreign legal journals is impressive (around 180), as well as his contribution for the Commentaries of the Contracts and Torts Act and the Act on Bases of the System for Insurance of a Person and a Property.  Beside his published PhD thesis it is worth mentioning some other significant publications Commercial Law – companies; Insurance in Commerce; The Principle of Damages in Insurance; law of bill of exchange and cheque (co-author with professors Bartos and Antonijevic), Insurance of export loans etc.   By his entire scientific, professional and pedagogical work professor Jovanovic left an indelible mark both in the domestic and international legal public. He died suddenly in 1993.  Modified and taken from the journal “Pravo i Privreda”, No. 3-6/1995., Belgrade (Vrnjačka Banja 1995)     After professor Borislav Blagojevic and professor Vladimir Jovanovic, the directors of the Institute of Comparative Law were professor Milorad Josipovic, professor Oliver Antic, Ivanka Spasic, LLD (as acting director), professor Vesna Rakic-Vodinelic and professor Vesna Besarovic. Presently, the director of the Institute is Jovan Ciric.

Scientists who were working at the Institute   Vida Čok Stevan Mijučić Miodrag Jovičić Žarko Milanović Miodrag Janjić Zorica Radović Olga Šuica Dragan Kostić Jelena Vilus Mitar Kokolj Marija Toroman Radomir V.Lukić Svetlana Arsenić Mihailo Stojanović Vladislav Blagojević Srđan Stojanović Kosta Čavoški Ksenija Sigulinski Dušan Crnogorčević Ilija Babić Ivica Jankovec Aleksandar Lojpur Ljubiša Jovanović Dijana Marković Bajalović Lucija Spirović Jovanović Milan Petrović Zlatija Đukić Veljović Ljubiša Dabić Vrleta Krulj Jasna Pak Desanka Dugić Lazarević Nataša Mrvić Petrović Đurica Krstić Dušan Lovrić Ljubiša Lazarević Genc Trnavci Dobrosav Mitrović Katarina Damnjanović Jakov Radišić Goran Dajović Ratko Marković Igor Vuković Zoran Radović Marija Karanikić Dragoljub Stojanović Ljubinka Kovačević Lidija Basta Dušan Popović Ana Đorić Dušan Vranjanac Boris Krivokapić