Sima Avramović | |
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Avramović speaking at the European Commission (Brussels)
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55th Dean of Belgrade Law School | |
Assumed office October 2012 |
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Preceded by | Mirko Vasiljević |
Personal details | |
Born |
Simeon Avramović July 19, 1950 Belgrade, Serbia |
Nationality | Serbia |
Alma mater |
Belgrade Law School (J.D.) Belgrade Law School (LL.M.) Belgrade Law School (S.J.D.) |
Occupation |
Professor Lawyer Administrator |
Website | simaavramovic.org |
Sima Avramović (Serbian: Сима Аврамовић / Sima Avramović) (b. 1950) is one of the foremost Serbian authorities on comparative law, legal history, law and religion, Roman law, and rhetoric, and the Dean of the University of Belgrade's Law School. Avramović is the current President of the University of Belgrade's Senate.
Avramovic extensively serves as a distinguished lecturer at leading universities in Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, Italy, the United States, Germany, England and Scotland. His current academic assignments include the following: President of the Commission for the University of Belgrade Bologna Follow Up, President of the Statutory Commission of the University of Belgrade, Member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Panel of Experts, Editor-in-Chief of the Belgrade Law Review, Member of the Universities’ of Serbia Conference, Member of the Section for Sources of Serbian Law at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, President of the Center for Cooperation among Religious Communities, President of the Society for Roman Law and Classics Forum Romanum, President of the Alan Watson Foundation, and he leads the Center for Oratory Institutio oratoria. In addition, Avramovic is the founder of the monthly bulletin of the University of Belgrade's Law School (Acta Diurna). He is also an editorial board member for the General Encyclopedia of Law, the Journal of Matica Srpska for Classical Studies, and the European Lawyer Journal. Avramovic holds the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees from the University of Belgrade. In 1984, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Maryland. Professor Avramovic has a command of English, German, Greek, French, Italian, Russian and Serbian, and knows two classical languages – Ancient Greek and Latin.