Milan Blagojevic (jurist)

Milan Blagojević (born 12 May 1965) in Gračanica is a Serbian jurist, full-time professor of Constitutional Law and the former judge of the District Court of Banja Luka. In 2023, he was a legal advisor of the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Education

Blagojević gained his bachelor's degree in law from the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo in 1991, and passed the bar exam in 1994. He earned his master's degree in Law Science from the Faculty of Law, University of Banja Luka in 2000 and his PhD degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade in 2002. He is fluent in English and understands Russian.

Legal career

His judicial career included positions of president of the Magistrates’ Court in Petrovo, Ozren, judge of the Military Court in Bijeljina, judge of the Basic Court in Doboj (criminal cases) and judge of the Municipal Court in Travnik (civil cases). He has served as a judge of the District Court in Banja Luka. From July 1, 2012, until July 26, 2021, he served as a judge of the District Court in Banja Luka.

As a judge, he took part in several educational programs, some of them international. In May and June 2002, in Prague, Czech Republic, he completed training for judges called “Judging in a Democratic Society” organized by CEELI Institute and the American Bar Association. In June 2001, he attended an educational seminar for judges and prosecutors from Bosnia and Herzegovina concerning the European Convention on Human Rights and its implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by the Council of Europe. From 2002 to 2003, he completed the international one-year distance training course for judges called “Towards a Model for a European Judge”, jointly organized by the University of Bologna and Italian Centro per l’Europa centro-orientale e Balcanica.

In 2003 and 2004, he completed the summer seminar of the Legal Reform Program, which is the initiative of the Johns Hopkins Center of the University of Bologna, the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna and the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. In 2007 and 2008, he worked as an assistant director of the Center for Education of Judges and Prosecutors of the Republic of Srpska, and the head of the Legal Affairs Department of The Republic of Srpska Railways. In 2010 and 2011, he worked as a legal advisor to the Director of the Republic Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of the Republic of Srpska.

Political career

Blagojević was the chairman of the Municipal Election Commission of the Municipality of Petrovo from 1996 to 2000, and was head of a department for the General Administration of the Municipality of Petrovo in 2004 and 2005.

He was a senator of the Republic of Srpska from January to May 2017.

Academic career

Blagojević is a full-time professor of constitutional law, criminal law, and criminal procedural law. He has taught at numerous higher education institutions of the Republic of Srpska. He is the author or co-author of 33 books from the field of law (author of 25 books and co-author of 8) and has written more than 70 scholarly and expert papers from the field of law which have been published in scholarly and professional journals in Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Doboj, Belgrade, Nis and Kotor. He is co-author of the first locally produced university textbook on International Criminal Law, published in two editions. The monographs he authored include three practicums for court proceedings: Practicum in Criminal Procedural Law (two editions), Practicum in Civil Proceedings, and Practicum in Administrative Litigation, and he was also a co-author for two practicums: Litigation in Practice and Administrative Litigation in Practice. He took part in several scholarly conferences domestically and abroad. Eight of his legal monographs have been translated into the English language.

He is co-author of six scholarly compendiums, including "Crimes against humanity - normatively and in reality", issued in 2015 by the Faculty of Law at the University of Banja Luka; as well as "(Re)construction of social reality", issued in 2018 by Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Banja Luka; and collection of scholarly essays "Introduction to Sharia Law", issued in 2020 by the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade.

Papers

In addition to a large number of articles, he authored the following books:

• Pravna priroda i položaj Brčko distrikta u Bosni i Hercegovini (2002) Legal character and position of the Brcko District within Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Načela, predmet i osnovni subjekti krivičnog postupka u Bosni i Hercegovini (2003) Principles, subject matter and key principles of criminal proceeding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Tehnologija ohaerizma (2004) Technology of the “OHR System”
• O pojmu lokalne samouprave i njenim zakonskim osnovama u Republici Srpskoj (2005) About the concept of local self-government and its legal basis in the Republic of Srpska
• Ogledi iz krivičnog procesnog prava (2005) Essays on Criminal Procedural Law
• Zbirka obrazaca iz krivičnog procesnog prava (2008) Collection of Criminal Procedural Law Forms
• Praktikum za krivično procesno pravo (2010) Practicum in Criminal Procedural Law
• Praktikum za parnični postupak (2010) Practicum in Civil Proceedings
• Pravni eseji – Knjiga značenja (2011) Legal essays – Book of definitions
• Pravna priroda Brčko distrikta deceniju poslije (2011) The Legal Character of the Brcko District a Decade Later
• Islamski konstitucionalizam na iranski način (2012) Islamic constitutionalism in Iranian way
• Ustavnost i zakonitost u upravnom sporu u Republici Srpskoj (2014) Constitutionality and legality in administrative disputes in the Republic of Srpska
• Praktikum za upravni spor (2014) Practicum in Administrative Litigation
• Neustavna retroaktivna primjena inkriminacije zločini protiv čovječnosti u praksi Suda BiH (2014), prvo izdanje Unconstitutional retroactive implementation of crimes against humanity charge in the practice of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, first edition
• Neustavna retroaktivna primjena inkriminacije zločini protiv čovječnosti u praksi Suda BiH, drugo dopunjeno izdanje (2015) Unconstitutional retroactive implementation of crimes against humanity charge in the practice of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, second revised edition
• Ustavni dekatlon (2016) Constitutional decathlon
• Politička anatomija jedne presude (2016) Political anatomy of a judgment
• Pravоsudna neistina (2017) Legal untruth
• Hrestomatija tehnologije ohaerizma (2018) Chrestomathy of the technology of the “OHR System”
• Zapisi o (ne)pravu (2018) Notes on (Ill)egality
• Fenomenologija (ne)prava (2019) Phenomenology of (Ill)egality
• Ustavnopravna odbrana Republike Srpske (2021) Constitutional defense of the Republic of Srpska
• Kriminal ohaerizma (2021) The Criminality of the OHR System
• Osnovi opšteg ustavnog prava - udžbenik (2022) - The Basics of General Constitutional Law - university textbook of constitutional law
• Ignorance and greed is going to kill us (2023)

Milan Blagojević is co-author (with academician Miodrag N. Simović) of two editions of the university textbook Međunarodno krivično pravo (2007 and 2013). The 2007 edition is the first local university textbook on International Criminal Law written in the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He is also a co-author (with Dr Tihomir Gligorić) of the book

• Osvrt na nerazumijevanja Zakona o katastru Republike Srpske (2011) Review of misunderstandings of the Law on Cadastre of the Republic of Srpska

He is a co-author of the following books (with publicist Haso Tajić):

• Javne nabavke u upravnoj i sudskoj praksi (2012) Public procurement in administrative and judicial practice
• Parnica u praksi (2011) Practical litigation
• Građansko i privredno pravo u praksi sudova u Bosni i Hercegovini (2013) Civil and commercial law in the jurisprudence of the courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Odštetno pravo i pravo osiguranja u sudskoj praksi (2013) Indemnity and insurance law in court jurisprudence
• Upravni spor u praksi (2015) Administrative dispute in legal jurisprudence