Inspired by deep social tensions and the fact that the current Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, adopted nearly two decades ago, has not proven to be a suitable foundation for the separation of powers, the protection of human rights, and the rule of law, a team of constitutional law experts sought answers to questions such as: the possibilities of convening a constitutional convention and other methods for adopting and/or revising the existing constitutional text, core principles for improving electoral legislation, and the constitutional position of the President of the Republic, alongside a review of weaknesses in the system for electing Constitutional Court judges and the Ombudsman.
Members of Parliament from the Free Citizens Movement, Pavle Grbović and Vlada Pajić, addressed the roundtable participants, providing valuable insights from parliamentary practice and political life.
The topic of the roundtable was conceptualized by Danijel Pantić, LL.M., who also moderated the debate.
Authored contributions by Prof. Irena Pejić: “Constitutional Revision in the Republic of Serbia: How to Reach a Constituent Assembly?”, Prof. Bogoljub Milosavljević: “Possibilities for Improving the Political System in the Context of Serbian Constitutional Law”, Dr. Milan Marković: “The Role and Reach of Constitutional Judiciary in the Republic of Serbia”, and Prof. Stevan Lilić: “Constitutional Contradictions of the Function of the President of the Republic” will be available on the website www.flpp.rs.
The participants found the motto of the gathering in the thought of the famous legal theorist Hans Kelsen: “Law is an order of human behavior. An ‘order’ is a system of rules. Law is not, as it is sometimes said, a rule. It is a set of rules having the kind of unity we understand by a system. It is impossible to grasp the nature of law if we limit our attention to the single isolated rule.”