At the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, from 17 to 19 November 2025, the Sixth International Student Conference on Legal History “IUSTORIA 2025” was held. The theme of this year’s conference was “War and Peace (in Legal History)”, marking the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, along with several other anniversaries commemorated this year.

The conference was opened by Prof. Dr Dalibor Đukić, Vice Dean for International Cooperation of our faculty and a member of the Organizing Committee, and Prof. Dr Nina Kršljanin, Chair of the Organizing Committee. Each day of the conference, before the sessions, the audience had the opportunity to hear a lecture by a distinguished (legal) historian – Prof. Dr Steve Donnachie, on the topic “Law and Civil War: The Legal Context to Conflict between the Hohenstaufen and Ibelins in the Latin East, 1228–1242”, then Prof. Dr Samir Aličić, “Roman Law and War”, and finally Prof. Dr Mile Bjelajac, “International Legal War Conventions and Double Standards – The Case of Serbia in the 20th Century.”

Over the course of three days and nine sessions in Serbian and English, more than thirty participants at all levels of study (from undergraduate to doctoral) presented their papers. Through the study of various legal institutions from antiquity to the present, across several different legal systems, they offered their conclusions on issues of war and peace in law, particularly with regard to the development of various institutions of state and international law that regulated—and continue to regulate—their many different aspects. As in previous years, the event was held in a hybrid format (in person and online). All keynote lectures and sessions were followed by long and lively discussions. As the event was recorded, its entire proceedings will be available for later viewing – and we expect that a large number of the presented papers will be published in the forthcoming issues of the journal “Herald of Legal History”.

In addition to students from the law faculties of the Universities of Belgrade, Banja Luka, and Zenica (RS/BiH), students from Poland (Universities of Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, and Toruń), the University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Miskolc (Hungary), the University of Verona (Italy), and Kansai University (Japan) also took part in the conference.

Photo Albums:

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Day2: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1225313716294249&type=3 

Day3: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1225317906293830&type=3