33rd Meeting of the Kopaonik School 23 December 2020
33 rd Meeting of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law – Slobodan Perović, exploring the general theme of ‘UNIFICATION OF LAW AND LEGAL CERTAINTY’, was held on 23 December 2020 as an online international scientific conference.
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PLENARY SESSION
Plenary session of the Opening of the 33rd Meeting took place on 23 December 2020 at 10:00. Prof. Dr. Jelena S. Perović Vujačić, Chair of the Kopaonik School, opened the Session by giving the introductory address and she moderated the Session.
Welcome remarks to the participants of the Kopaonik School were delivered by:
Prof. Dr. Milan Škulić, Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade and Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of Serbia
Prof. Dr. Gordana Ilić Popov, Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade
Academician Prof. Dr. Zoran Rašović, Member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
Prof. Dr. Gian Antonio Benacchio, Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Trento
Prof. Dr. Cristiana Wendehorst, President of the European Law Institute in Vienna
Dr. Thomas Meyer, Legal Reform Programme Manager, GIZ
Prof. Dr. Jelena S. Perović Vujačić presented the introductory report of the Meeting: ‘UNIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL SALES LAW AND LEGAL CERTAINTY’.
The winners of the Profesor Slobodan Perović Award were publicly announced at the Plenary Session.
The winners of the Profesor Slobodan Perović Award this year:
FIRST PRIZE, Dr. Andreja Mihailović, Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro, for paper ‘The Evolution of Law in the Straits between the Scylla of Provincialism and the Charybdis of Legal Uncertainty’
SECOND PRIZE, Luigi Buonanno, Ph.D. student, School of Law, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, for paper ‘The EU Credit Reporting Industry: the Need for a Uniform Regulatory Approach’
THIRD PRIZE, Pavle Novevski, LL.M. candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, for paper ‘Unification of Law: the Seller’s Liability in Case of Suspicion of a Defect under the Rules of the Vienna Convention and EU Law’
II
SCHEDULE OF WORK
The schedule of work followed the Programme, in line with The Hexagon of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, arranged in six Departments and 18 sections: with over 300 participants from Serbia and abroad.
Departments:
• I Right to Life
• II Right to Freedom
• III Right to Property
• IV Right to Intellectual Creation
• V Right to Justice
• VI Right to a State Ruled by Law
Sections:
1st Department – Life; Health; Ecology; Sport
2nd Department – Protection of Personality Under Criminal Law and Procedural Law; Freedom of Personality – in general terms and in terms of family law; Protection of Freedom Under the Administrative Law
3rd Department – Codifications, Ownership and Other Property Rights, Ownership and Inheritance, Contract and Liability for Damage; Taxes; Commercial Companies; International Commercial Contracts, Arbitration; Labour Relations
4th Department – Industrial Property, Copyright
5th Department – Court in Connexity with Justice – Court Practice, Procedure, Enforcement; International Relations and Justice – International Law – Foreign Elements; EU Law
6th Department – State Ruled by Law – in Theory and in Practice
The authors presented their papers in section meetings, and participants discussed a range of issues of importance to legal science and of current interest to legal and business practice.
III
PUBLICATIONS
Many national and international authors submitted their papers for the 33rd Meeting, of which over a hundred papers were published, distributed in four volumes of the Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law – Slobodan Perović.
A new issue of the scientific journal of the Kopaonik School – Review of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law was presented at the Plenary Session.
The publishing activity of the Kopaonik School in 2020, including four volumes of the Proceedings and the Review of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, comprises over 2000 pages of printed text.
IV
CLOSING OF THE 33rd MEETING
The Closing Plenary Session, held on completion of the section meetings, provided an overview of the entire work of the Meeting. In the general assessment of the editors, authors and other participants, the 33rd Meeting of the School was a great success.
The Meeting was attended by over 300 participants – lawyers from various universities, academies, scientific institutions, bar, courts and other judicial organizations, administrative bodies and public services, citizens’ associations, companies and business associations, banking and insurance institutions and other bodies and institutions. Prominent lawyers, theorists and practitioners from the country and abroad took part in the work of the School, appearing as authors of published papers or as direct participants in the work of individual sections.
The section editors prepared the conclusions and messages for their sections, which will be published in the Final Document of the 33rd Meeting of the Kopaonik School.
The success of this Meeting shows that the Kopaonik School of Natural Law firmly continues to affirm the ideas, values and concepts that had been identified, established and developed by the Founder of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, Academician Professor. Dr. Slobodan Perović
Closing the 33rd Meeting, Chair of the Kopaonik School, Prof. Dr. Jelena S. Perović Vujačić, said:
“I believe that Professor Slobodan Perović would have been proud of his Kopaonik School today. Because, as he liked to say: ‘You cannot hide a city that stands tall atop a mountain.’ And our Universitas Iuris Naturalis Copaonici does stand tall atop a mountain.”