UULSB professors, teachers and teaching fellows participate in a significant number of national. regional and international projects.
Projects funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
> The Union Law Belgrade participates in the implementation of the project MIND – Monitoring and Indexing of Peace and Security in the Western Balkans (2022-2025), funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia within the Program IDEAS. The project is implemented in partnership with the Faculty of Organizational Sciences and the Faculty of Political Sciences (project lead). It aims to strengthen peace and security in the Western Balkans through innovative, contextually sensitive and methodologically mixed research. Members of the project team from the Union Law Belgrade are professors Violeta Beširević and Tatjana Papić.
> Since 2024, we has been involved in the implementation of the project Imagining a Nation: The Contesting Serbian National Narratives (XX – XXI centuries), funded by the Science Fund from the World Bank funds, under the Prism program. The project is carried out in cooperation between the Union Law and three other partner institutions, i.e. the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, which is also the project lead. Members of the project team from Union Law are professors Marko Božić and Srdjan Milošević, both in the capacity of Work Package Leaders. The project explores different, mutually competing narratives about Serbian national identity in the second half of the 20th century, i.e. during the socialist and post-socialist periods.
International Projects
UULSB professors and teaching fellows are currently involved in several COST projects:
COST Action 23103: Life, liberty and health: ensuring universal protection of human rights at sea (BlueRights) (2024-2028). The Action will create an international, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral and cross-institutional network, which will engage in depth with the conceptual and practical issues that arise from the need to protect these human rights of people at sea. The Action will bring together scholars and stakeholders working in this area, raising awareness about people at sea and their most basic rights, elaborating the theoretical framework within which to locate legislative efforts for universality of the protection, and producing ready-to-use tools for governments, industry and civil society.
COST Action 22139: Justice to youth language needs: human rights undermined by an invisible disadvantage: Y-JustLang (2023-2027). The main aim of the Action is to create a transnational platform to raise awareness about the need of assessment to establish the language abilities of the youth before engaging in justice proceedings and to develop a blueprint of assessment tools targeting phenomena typically featured in police and court appearances. The Action consists of several working groups, Assist. Prof. Nikola Vujičić is a member of two working groups: WG4 – Epidemiology of Youth Offending and WG5 – Legal framework for the youth justice system.
- COST Action 18123: The Pan-European Family Support Research Network: A bottom-up, evidence-based and multidisciplinary approach (2018-2023). The project aims at family support provision researchers’ networking in over 20 countries. The network observes these countries’ common goals concerning providing support to families and parenting policies development, recognizing at the same time cultural specificities, as well as particularities of a family context. The basic project goals concern coordination of relevant research, along with capacity-building of the existing family support systems. The project is coordinated by the University of Seville, Spain. UUSLB participants in it are Assist. Prof. Jelena Arsić, SJD, as its Manager in Serbia, and Prof. Jelena Jerinić, SJD, as its Deputy Manager in Serbia.
- COST Action CA19143: Global Digital Human Rights Network (2020-2024). Prof. Violeta Beširević, SJD, its Manager in Serbia, has been nominated into the Project Board, with Assoc. Prof. Jelena Simić, SJD, as her Deputy. UULSB has nominated the following professors and teaching fellows for its project team members: Prof. Tatjana Papić, SJD, Assoc. Prof. Marko Božić, SJD, and Nikola Kovačević, a UULSB Teaching Fellow and PhD student. The aim of the Global Digital Human Rights Network is to systematically research theoretical and practical issues concerning human rights protection online.
- COST Action HIDDEN CA21120: Identity documentation has come to feature in every part of modern life. The History of Identity Documentation in European Nations (HIDDEN) network unites scholars in history, migration studies, geography, sociology, law, linguistics, postcolonial studies, human rights and more to look at the history of ID regimes in Europe and beyond, drawing connections between the past and present. In the context of UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 that everyone should have a legal identity by 2030, and the rise of new forms of biometric digital ID, such as the Covid-19 vaccination certificates, it is timely that an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary group of scholars critically examine the antecedents of modern systems and contemporary practices which can increase societal inequalities.