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Euthanasia in the Practice of the European Court of Human RightsThe paper aims to shed light on the interpretation of mercy killing, i.e., euthanasia, in European Court of Human Rights cases. This controversial phenomenon has a specific legal status. More specifically, due to the complexityof eutanasia, it is impossible to create universally accepted international standards. On the other hand, modern society creates a need to expand the legal boundaries regarding bioethical issues related to the compassionate end of-life care. The European Court of Human Rights is a unique international organization that interprets universal legal documents, especially the European Convention on Human Rights, in the context of euthanasia. Bearing this in mind, it is important to collect and analyze the information resulting from the specific decision-making process of the European Court of Human Rights. The Court’s past and future similar cases will certainly affect the future legal status of euthanasia both internationally and at the level of member states.

• Dušica G. Kovačević [ Institute for Social Sciences, Serbia ]

Surrogacy – A Biomedical Mechanism in the Fight Against InfertilityThis paper reviews the issue of surrogacy. The author analyzes surrogacy and continues by conducting a comparative overview of two legal systems with different approaches to surrogacy. The analysis first looks at the legal system of Russia, as it represents a country that allows all forms of surrogacy, and then that of Germany, as a country with norms prohibiting all forms of surrogacy. In turn, the author reviews Serbian legal provisions, which also forbid all forms of surrogacy. The paper further explores whether there is justification for such legal provisions, i.e., it pinpoints potential problems that could arise if the legal provisions were to be changed. It is concluded that the Serbian legislator has decided to remain silent on this issue, most probably due to the fact that any amendments could raise questions that, at least for the time being, have no clear answers.

• Ivana Barać [ University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Serbia ]

Dolus eventualis and its demarcation from conscius negligenceThe aim of the paper is to determine the content of dolus eventualis in order to demarcate it from conscious negligence as the less serious form of guilt. The main challenge in Serbian law for their differentiation is their identical element of consciousness (awareness of the possibility to commit the act), while the element of will is different (“consent” to dolus eventualisand reckless assumption that the consequence of the act would not occur or that the perpetrator would be able to hinder it for conscious negligence).Firstly, various doctrines (cognitive theories, voluntative theories, and theories of risk) are analyzed. After that, the most important, typical interpretations from the Serbian jurisprudence are presented and commented on, after which it is assessed whether any of the analyzed theories could apply to Serbian Law. Finally, a more precise interpretation of the term „consent“ and related questions is proposed.

• Ivana Marković [ Faculty of Law University of Belgrade, Serbia ]

Remarks on Early Medieval Alemannic CodesThe paper deals with the age and the origin of the early medieval Alemannic common law, the fragments of the Pactus Alamannorum and the text of the Lex Alamannorum, which has an exceptionally rich manuscript tradition. After examining the common roots of the regulations and the prologues of the Lex Alamannorum and the Lex Baiuvariorum, and the influence of Frankish capitularia on the Alemannic leges, a possible answer to the question regarding the date and the legislator will be presented.

• Tamás Nótári [ Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), Sapientia Hungarian University in Transylvania, Department of Law, Universitatea Sapientia Calea Turzii, Romania ]

Domestic and foreign policy terminology of ancient Rome – two sides of the same coinThe paper compares the advice that Quintus gave to his brother Marcus Cicero, on how to conduct an election campaign, with the instructions that Ulpian gave to the governors of the provinces on how to treat the provincials. On that occasion, the same or similar terms were identified.It can be said that the candidates in the elections used similar methods of manipulation in the campaign as were used in Roman politics in the provinces. After all, they are just two sides of the same coin.

• Ognjen Vujović [ University in Priština – Kosovska Mitrovica, Faculty of Law ]

Vujadinović, Dragica, Antonio Álvarez del Cuvillo, Susanne Strand. 2022. Feminist Approaches to Law: Theoretical and Historical Insights. Springer International Publishing AG, 150.

• Zara Saeidzadeh [ Örebro University, Sweden ]

Guriev, Sergei, Daniel Treisman. 2022. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 340.

• Boris Begović [ University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Serbia ]