Constitutional History of Serbia (Balkan Studies Library, 30)

✍ Scribed by Dragoljub Popovic

• Publisher: Brill Schoningh
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The author displays the complex constitutional history of Serbia as a case study, following the evolution of the most important concepts such as human rights and the rule of law.
The first part of the book ("Developments") displays the main events as a chronological narrative, also giving a sketch of the history of Serbian legal institutions. The second part ("The Evolution of Constitutionalism") follows the evolution of two principal constitutional concepts i.e. human rights and the rule of law in Serbia. The third part ("Serbia and Yugoslavia") analyses the specific historical dimensions of Serbian constitutionalism in its relationship with the history of the Balkan peninsula.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part One Developments
Chapter 1: Origins of the Modern Nation
1.1 Nation Building
1.2 Events
1.3 Institutions
Chapter 2: Constitutional Monarchy
2.1 Restoration and Constitution
2.2 Constitutional Settlement of 1861
2.3 The 1869 Constitution
2.4 Constitution in Action
2.5 The 1888 Constitution – A Landmark
2.6 The 1901 Constitution – An Exception
2.7 The Line of Evolution of Constitutional Monarchy
Chapter 3: Parliamentary Government
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The 1903 Constitution
3.3 Conclusions
Part Two The Evolution of Constitutionalism
Chapter 4: Human Rights in Serbian Nation Building
4.1 A Prelude
4.2 Developments
4.3 Conclusions
Chapter 5: Sovereignty and Rule of Law in the Time of Nation Building
5.1 The Approach to the Problem
5.2 Sovereignty of the People
5.3 Between Sovereignty of the People and the Monarch
5.4 Monarch’s Sovereignty
5.5 Constitutional Supremacy
5.6 Conclusions
Chapter 6: Two Outstanding Professors of Law and Their Views on the Rule of Law and Human Rights
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Jovan Sterija Popović
6.3 Dimitrije Matić
6.4 Comparison
Chapter 7: Rule of Law – Practical Aspects
7.1 Earlier Developments
7.2 Rule of Law in Constitutional Settlements
7.3 A Closing Word
Chapter 8: The Doctrine of Rule of Law
8.1 Receiving Foreign Influence
8.2 Introduction of New Topics
8.3 Further Developments
Chapter 9: A Century of Teaching Constitutional Law
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Dimitrije Matić
9.3 Milovan Milovanović
9.4 Slobodan Jovanović
9.5 Comparison
Part Three Serbia and Yugoslavia
Chapter 10: A Long Episode and Beyond
10.1 Absorption
10.2 Reappearance
10.3 Dismantling of the Country and Rump-Yugoslavia
Chapter 11: Transition to Democracy: The Two Constitutions of Serbia
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The 1990 Constitution
11.3 The 2006 Constitution
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: A Word on Freedom
Bibliography
Personal Names Index