About the Programme
In 2016, the Faculty of Law and Business Studies Dr. Lazar Vrkatić marked a decade of successful operation. At the same time, we saw off another generation of students who successfully completed law studies. What we are particularly proud of is the fact that during the first decade of our existence and work, students of the Law study programme have successfully affirmed themselves in a wide range of legal professions. In most cases, students who graduated law with 240 ECTS points were employed in various legal professions in the judiciary, state bodies, provincial authorities, local self-government bodies and the economy sector in general. Indeed, the dominant choice of profession does include judicial affairs and most often specific job positions in law practice and courts, given the fact that the Law study programme at our faculty meets all the requirements necessary for enabling the graduates of Law to engage in the practice of law or work in legal affairs.
The Faculty of Law and Business Studies Dr. Lazar Vrkatić is the first accredited private faculty in Serbia. The Law study programme was accredited in 2009, and after the end of the first cycle, it was successfully re-accredited in 2013, thus confirming its quality.
All this obliges us to continue in accordance with our mission set by the very founder, Professor Lazar Vrkatić, which is education of creative and quality professionals who are competent to pro-actively engage themselves in contemporary social and economic trends. During the previous period, the Department of Law managed to build an enviable reputation among law schools in Serbia through its quality work. After a successful decade, our desire is to see the results of our work through the success of young people, who will upon completing their studies have the chance to use the acquired knowledge in the best possible way and to proudly say that they are part of our academic family. More than 50% of our students have enrolled on the basis of recommendation by other students. Students whose parents are prominent lawyers in Serbia also regard us to be a trusty institution. We are proud of the fact that our students have achieved very successful results in competitions in various fields of law organized in our country. The quality and credibility of the Department of Law is also reflected today through the cooperation with numerous state and professional institutions that have recognized the department as a quality and respectable partner regarding both lecturers and students.
Why enrol in the Law study programme?
- Accredited study program
- Recognized diploma in the country and abroad
- Job opportunities in a wide range of legal professions
- Acquiring practical knowledge through professional practice in a large number of institutions
- Competent and responsible academic staff
Cooperation
Recognizing the importance of practical training of students during the course of studies, the Faculty and the Law study programme signed a significant number of cooperation agreements with judicial institutions and organizations:
- Bar Association of Vojvodina
- Bar Association of Niš
- Court of General Jurisdiction in Novi Sad
- Court of General Jurisdiction in Niš
- Higher Court in Novi Sad
- Higher Court in Niš
- General Public Prosecution Office in Niš
- Higher Public Prosecution Office in Novi Sad
- Misdemeanour Court in Niš
- Commercial Court in Niš
- Administrative Court in Belgrade
Also cooperation agreements were signed with the Provincial Ombudsman, the Protector of Citizens' Rights of the City of Niš, the Centre for Social Work of the City of Novi Sad, the European Affairs Fund of APV and the company "Paragraf”. Through cooperation with these institutions, students can engage in professional practice thus gaining significant experience, practical knowledge and skills. Agreements with the most important judicial institutions, provincial authorities and local self-government bodies demonstrate not only the confidence and the compatibility of the curriculum of the BA and MA Law study programmes that is being implemented at the Faculty of Law and Business Studies Dr. Lazar Vrkatić, but also the competences in the education of high-quality and modern legal practitioners, qualified for their vocation in a full array of legal practice.
All these facts confirm the quality of the Law study programme and represent the motivation for further improvement and upgrading.
The institutions we cooperate with include:
- Student Centre Novi Sad
- Partners for Democratic Change
- Univerexport d.o.o. Novi Sad
- Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Trieste
- Faculty of Security and Safety, Banja Luka
- Faculty of Law, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
- Faculty of Law, University of Szeged
- Szechenyi Istvan University, Győr, Hungary
Careers
Many lawyers in Novi Sad, registered in the directory of the Bar Association of Vojvodina, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Business Studies Dr. Lazar Vrkatić, and several dozen of them are currently working as paralegals with the IDs of the Bar Association of Vojvodina, the Bar Association of Niš and other regional bar associations in Serbia. Students who wish to work in the judiciary system but are not primarily interested in working as lawyers usually opt for internships in courts of general jurisdiction, higher courts, misdemeanour courts or commercial courts, public prosecution offices, with the aim of fulfilling the conditions for applying and taking the bar exam and thus rounding and crowning their legal vocation. After the studies, a certain number of our students build their professional career in local, provincial or state administration. After completing the undergraduate law studies, our students successfully enrol at master studies as well as doctoral studies at renowned faculties in the country and abroad.
Alumni
Aleksandar Bodlović, Aleksandar Delić, Aleksandra Radosavljević, Boško Talančevski, Branislava Savatić, Branislava Stevanović, Dajana Bogdanić, Danijela Cvetanović, Dragiša Petrović, Gordana Glavaški, Ibolja Farkaš, Izabela Babić, Jelena Pavlović, Katarina Felbab, Ljiljana Dragutinović, Milena Kraguljac, Milica Rakić, Mirjana Vavan, Nataša Nestorović, Nemanja Đorđević, Nikolina Matijević, Radivoje Jovović, Nina Stevanović, Srđan Borjanović, Slađana Blagojević, Vojin Lazarević...
Teaching staff
- Sanja Đurđić, Associate Professor (Dept. Chair)
Professors
- Katarina Ivančević
- Tamaš Korhec
- Boris Kršev
- Duško Radosavljević
- Dušanka Đurđev
- Nebojša Šarkić
- Mirko Kulić
Visiting Professors
- Savo Marković
- Mile Matijević
Associate Professors
- Duška Franeta
- Božidar Jeličić
- Petar Teofilović
- Jelena Šogorov-Vučković
Assistant Professors
- Radivoje Jovović
- Tatjana Skakavac
- Tamara Gajinov
- Jelena Arsić
- Melanija Jančić
- Tanja Kaurin
- Marija Mijatović
- Katinka Beretka
Instructors
- Daniel Živković, PhD, Foreign Language Teacher (French)
- Jovana Fajgelj, MA, Foreign Language Teacher (French & Italian)
- Milica Rađenović, MA, Foreign Language Teacher (English)
- Darko Tadić, Scholar-Practitioner
- Veljko Milić, Assistant Scholar-Practitioner
- Ljiljana Dragutinović, Assistant Scholar-Practitioner
- Ivana Karapandžić, Assistant Scholar-Practitioner
Teaching Assistants
- Predrag Alargić
- Marija Dabić
- Zoran Vavan
- Nikola Lakobrija
- Vesna Paunović
For the practical classes within the Legal Clinic at our faculty, we engaged:
- Ivana Karapandžić, senior judge assistant and Higher Court spokesperson in Novi Sad/li>
- Ivana Milovanović from Niš, judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction in Niš
- Ljiljana Marjanović from Niš, judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction in Niš
Working Hours
Monday - Friday
09:00 - 17:00
Bank Account: 160-930468-41
PIB: 104246798
Identification number: 08850330
Activity Code: 8542
Phone:
Novi Sad: +381(21) 472 7884,
fax: +381(21) 472 7885
Niš: +381(18) 294 220,
fax: +381(18) 294 222
Address:
Bulevar oslobođenja 76,
21000 Novi Sad
Vojvode Mišića 48,
18000 Niš
e-mail:
office@flv.edu.rs
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