JUDICIARY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
JUDICIARY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

Author(s): Vesna Rakić Vodinelić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: јudicial system; human rights; security; civil society
Summary/Abstract: This work questions the very foundations of international relations and human rights today; it questions whether a substitution of the key legal concept “human rights” with a new concept legally still insufficiently defined - “national security“. took place. The grounds for this belief can be found in the legislative practice in the U.S. following September 11, 2001. The relations between the judicial system and the civil society in Serbia and Montenegro are discussed within this general framework. It has been noted that the ideas of a legal state, independent judiciary, fair trial, were especially affirmed during the time of authoritarian rule in Serbia, and that the most prominent promoters of these ideas were institutions of the civil society. When the new regime came to power in 2000, some of these ideas were adopted by the government. However, soon after the collapse of the ruling coalition, especially after the murder of Prime Minister Đinđić, and after the unconvincing desistance from prosecuting human trafficking in Montenegro, the time has come when the state administration grows increasingly indifferent to these ideas, and essentially acts contrary to them, while the institutions of civil society are unable to find an adequate response.

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