March 9, 2001

Legal scholar is distinguished visiting professor in the law school

The School of Law welcomes Obrad Stanojevic, former dean and faculty member of Belgrade University School of Law, as its Michelle Pitard Wynne Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence. Stanojevic will teach in the law school until March 20.

This is Stanojevic's third return to the law school. In the spring of 1990, he was a Fulbright Scholar and taught comparative and Roman law. He returned for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 school terms to serve as a visiting professor. In addition, Stanojevic has taught courses in the university's summer law program for several years in Mexico, Hungary and Russia.

This semester, Stano-jevic teaches a short course in Roman law, gives short individual lectures in other courses, and conducts informal meetings with students and faculty. A world-renowed Roman law scholar, he has shared his expertise with students at universities in Edinburgh, London, Pisa, Milan, Brussels, Moscow and Budapest. "We are very pleased to have Stanojevic back at Loyola. He will be able to give our students and faculty some unique insights into the rapidly changing legal and political scene in Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe," explained James Klebba, interim dean of the Loyola's School of Law. "He adds greatly to the growing international emphasis at the law school and the university."

Stanojevic was a colleague of the new president of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, when they both taught on the faculty of the University of Belgrade. Stanojevic has many contacts in the reform government that ousted Slobodan Milosevic. He holds law degrees from the University of Belgrade School of Law and the Institute of Comparative Law at New York University.