The Council of the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro, following the proposal of the Commission, established the proposal that Dr. Andreja Mihailović, will be engaged in four subjects at the Specialist Studies - Criminalistic Counteraction to Contemporary Forms of Crime, in the academic year 2025/26.
The proposal of the Faculty of Law is not yet final because the decision on hiring according to external advertisements of the University of Montenegro is made by the Senate of the University of Montenegro, based on the proposal of the councils of organizational units.
"The Senate of the University of Montenegro has not yet decided on this issue. When adopting a proposal for the Senate of the University of Montenegro, the faculty councils also have at their disposal opinions, or proposals from committees for reviewing documentation, which are not binding," the Faculty of Law's response to "Vijesti" states.
The decision of the Commission for Review of Documentation and the Council of the Faculty of Law caused dissatisfaction among some candidates who applied this summer to the external advertisement of the University of Montenegro for teaching positions in the 2025/2026 academic year, which was announced on July 9.
The storm was initiated by the proposal of the Faculty of Law Council to assign all four professional courses, in the field of criminal law, to Professor Mihailović, who has a doctorate in the field of commercial law - on the topic of "Derivative Claims".
Former Acting Police Director, Assistant Professor Dr. Nikola Terzic, he told "Vijesti" that it is true that he applied for a job vacancy in one of the four courses at the Specialist Studies, namely the Criminal Investigation course.
"The justification for this procedure lies in the fact that I have been employed in the Police Directorate for 22 years, part of which I spent in criminal investigations. Furthermore, I have written a large number of scientific papers in this field. The Commission made a decision without a clear explanation and without clear criteria/rules by which it was obliged to act. In relation to this issue, I can conclude that, at the very least, a strange decision was made because Dr. Mihailović has no experience in the areas for which she applied, although this job was performed years earlier by prominent practitioners. There was a violation, if nothing else, then of the Code of Ethics, but I do not exclude the criminal liability of those people who participated in the procedure. For all this, I will react adequately with all available legal means," Terzić said.
In his application, he stated, among other things, that he would perform his work on the Criminal Investigations case without any fees.
In its response to "Vijesti", the Faculty of Law stated that the Commission made the decision to hire Professor Mihailović, as they stated, because she has the necessary scientific references and pedagogical experience, as well as published works on the SSCI and A&HCI lists and a monograph published by a renowned international publisher.
"In particular, when making its decision, the Commission took into account that, based on the decisions of previous faculty administrations, for five consecutive years, colleague Mihailović was and still is engaged as an associate at the Criminal Law Department of the Faculty of Law, and that, in addition, in the academic years 2023/2024. and 2024/2025, based on the decisions of the Council of the Faculty of Law, she was also engaged as a subject teacher (in the capacity of an associate in teaching with a doctorate) in the subject Criminal Procedure Law, the main subject in the criminal law field at the Basic Academic Studies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro," the response reads.
In addition to Terzić, applications were submitted to the external advertisement of the University of Montenegro by a full professor Aleksandar Ivanovic, the prosecutor Veljko Rutović, prof. Ph.D Wanda Bozic...
Terzić and Božić have been trying for days to get the secretary of the Faculty of Law Vesna Ostojic to find out the Council's decision on an external advertisement in the criminal law field.
The secretary, they said, informed them in her response that they would receive an answer when the Senate of the University of Montenegro makes a final decision on hiring based on an external advertisement.
Full professor Aleksandar Ivanovic, who in previous years taught all four subjects to students at the Specialist Studies - Criminal Procedure, Criminal Investigation Management, Criminal Profiling and Criminal Identification, and despite submitting an application to the University of Montenegro advertisement - was not hired.
Ivanovic confirmed that he applied for the competition, and that he has been teaching these subjects for 12 years.
In a brief statement to "Vijesti", he told the daily that he had not been officially informed of the Commission's decision, and that he was not too surprised by the Commission's decision, which he learned about from unofficial sources.
Ivanovic stressed that he would "respect the decision, whatever it may be."
"My desire was to pass on my extensive experience to young people in order to contribute to how we can combat challenges and preserve security. I have never seen myself in science and the profession, but science and the profession in myself. I wish the Faculty of Law all the best, I have fond memories of our long-standing cooperation," said Ivanović.
In explaining the decision, the Faculty of Law, in its response to Vijesti, provided an explanation that the Commission for Reviewing Documentation took into account that Dr. Andreja Mihailović is already in her fifth year of work as an associate at the Criminal Law Department of the Faculty of Law.
"It is important to point out, in relation to the four courses at the Specialist Studies - Criminalistic Counteraction to Contemporary Forms of Crime, that these are courses in a study program that was discontinued a number of years ago and in which the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro will enroll only one or two students this year, who have in the meantime met the enrollment requirements. In comparison, many years of experience in working with a large number of students on courses in the criminal law field at the Basic Academic Studies of the Faculty of Law, and the responsibility that the administration and the Council of the Faculty of Law entrusted to Dr. Andreja Mihailović in this regard in the previous period, determined the Commission for the aforementioned recommendation," the Faculty of Law states.
Candidates with academic/scientific titles, prominent practitioners/prominent alumni with a PhD degree, or prominent artists whose field of scientific or artistic work is related to the subjects, had the right to apply to the UCG advertisement. The decision on engagement is made by the Senate, at the proposal of the organizational unit council, and based on the report of the engagement commission, appointed by the dean.
In the advertisement, the University of Montenegro states that preference will be given to candidates with an academic/scientific title who are employed at the higher education institution or scientific research institution where they were selected.
Dr. Nevenka Bogojević Gluščević's proposal for Roman law
This year, the Council of the Faculty of Law proposed Dr. Nevenka Bogojević Gluščević from retirement to be hired to teach the subject of Roman Law in the academic year 2025/2026.
"The Council of the Faculty of Law has proposed to the Senate of the University of Montenegro Dr. Nevenka Bogojević Gluščević, a retired full professor at the University of Montenegro, since this subject has been largely uncovered by employed academic staff for many years," the Faculty of Law stated in its response.
Rakočević renounced so that his daughter would inherit the objects
The unusual decision was made by the Law Faculty Council at its session last week when they accepted the request of Professor Dr. Velimir Rakočević to benefit his daughter Aleksandra Rakočević waives teaching of several subjects in the Law - Master's degree program.
At the end of June this year, Rakočević addressed the request to Dean Vladimir Savković, explaining that he was overloaded with obligations, and since teaching assistant Aleksandra Rakočević did not have a full quota of classes, he proposed that his daughter teach the master's degree in the 2025/2026 academic year, in the subjects - EU Criminal Law and Juvenile Criminal Law.
When making its decision, the Council of the Faculty of Law took into account the fact that Aleksandra Rakočević completed her specialist, master's and doctoral studies in the field of criminal law, and that she has many years of experience in the judiciary and a large number of works in this field.
She will share classes with her father in the EU Criminal Law course in the winter semester, and in the summer semester she will have an equal class load in the Juvenile Criminal Law course.
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