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 The Faculty of Law, established in 1808 as part of the
University
of Belgrade, is one of the
largest law faculties in the region, with a long tradition of being in the
forefront of the country’s legal education. The faculty has always rallied
distinguished scholars and excellent lecturers. Since its founding, it has
educated almost 50,000 law graduates, around 1,200 magistri iuris and 830
doctores iuris, as well as hundreds of specialists in various areas. A great
many Faculty of Law alumni have become recognized experts and scholars in all
branches of law, law professors and high ranking government officials.
All the faculties of law, established subsequently in
Serbia
(Subotica, Novi Sad,
Pristina, Nis, Kragujevac), Montenegro (Podgorica), and in other parts of the
former Yugoslavia (Sarajevo, Skoplje) were
formed from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law as a core. There is a
large number of professors at the various faculties of law in all the countries
of the former Yugoslavia,
who had obtained their academic titles at the University of Belgrade Faculty of
Law.
At present there are about eight thousand students
enrolled in the undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Law, and hundreds more
at various levels of post-graduate studies.
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