Gender Competent Public Law and Policies

Marko Davinić is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Public Law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. His main areas of research are administrative law, public administration and asylum law. He was a Chevening scholar during his PhD research at Oxford University (2006/07), and a JFDP scholar at the George Washington University (2004/05). He has participated as an expert in various domestic and international projects, and legal drafting groups. He has published numerous books and articles as an author and co-author in the area of national and comparative administrative law, independent control bodies and asylum law.Svetislav V. Kostić is an Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels.  Until 2016 he also held the post of a Director with Deloitte Serbia Tax Services. He is one of the founders of the Serbian branch of the International Fiscal Association, currently in the capacity of its Secretary General. He is a member of the Practice Council of the New York University School of Law LL.M in International Taxation and one of the Vice Chairs of the IFA Europe Region. He has been lecturing at various undergraduate and graduate courses at the East African School of Taxation (Kampala, Uganda), New York University School of Law (LL.M in International Taxation Lunch Lectures), University of Amsterdam, University of Lausanne, the Financial University with the Government of the Russian Federation, University of Sarajevo and Strathmore University (Nairobi, Kenya). He primarily focuses his research on the impact the digital economy and well as other broader global issues (demographics, climate change) may have on individual income taxation, publishing in the most prestigious peer review journals such as the World Tax Journal or Intertax.

• Constitutional Law and Gender.- The role of the European Ombudsman in strengthening gender equality within the EU.- Mainstreaming Gender into Public Policies: A Tale of Two Countries.- Gender Pay Gap in the Western Balkans: Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?.- Female Genital Mutilation as a Criminal Offence According to the Istanbul Convention.- On extreme forms of violence against women in Europe – Does femi(ni)cide exist in Germany?.- Femicide in Serbia – Inadequate Judicial Response.- The Importance of Having a Specific Stalking Law.