Alan Watson Foundation is opening an essay contest for the 2022/23 academic year for the best paper dealing with legal transplants.

The contest is open to all the students of undergraduate and master’s studies of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. We welcome all papers that deal with legal transplants, whether they are concerned with Serbian law or foreign legal systems alone, focusing on legal history or positive law, related to the main subject of the contest, or some other subject connected to legal transplants. Both new, unpublished works will be accepted, along with works that were published throughout 2022. The papers can be written in Serbian or in English.

The main subject that we wish to propose to all candidates interested in this year’s contest is:

LEGAL TRANSPLANTS IN INHERITANCE LAW

The papers can be submitted at awf@ius.bg.ac.rs until the 10th of January, 2023, along with the personal data of the participant. The winner of the contest will be announced at the celebration on St. Sava’s Day, the 27th of January, 2023, when they will also receive a cash prize. The winning paper will be published in the journal “Vesnik pravne istorije / Herald of Legal History”, in the first issue of 2023.

The Alan Watson Foundation was established in 2005, at the initiative of Professor Watson himself, who has long been a friend of our Faculty and held an honorary doctorate of the University of Belgrade. Now, after his passing in 2018, the Foundation continues to spread his ideas, above all his theory of legal transplants, encouraging research in the field of legal history among the students of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. The President of the Foundation is Prof. Emeritus Sima Avramović.