THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMAN LAW STUDY IN MODERN SERBIA
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMAN LAW STUDY IN MODERN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The process of reception of Roman law, primarily doctrinal, and then normative, started very late in Serbia and was hampered by a number of reasons of the economic, political and human resources nature. The beginnings of the Roman law study in Serbia are connected to the Lyceum in Belgrade. Turning point was the year 1842 when Jovan Sterija Popović proposed to the Ministry of Education introduction of the Roman law course. However, tradition of deeper studies of Roman law in Serbia began in 1850 when Rajko Lešjanin came to Lyceum. He was the founder of the Serbian Romanistics because he wrote the first textbook on Roman law in Serbian which was named „The Institutions of Justinian's Roman Law". After initial uncertainty and very brief absence of Roman law from the curriculum at our first Law school, mainly due to lack of connoisseurs on this rare and demanding discipline, soon no one even wondered whether Roman law was necessary as a subject.

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