Vojin Dimitrijević

[1] In 1956 he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, where he also obtained his doctorate in 1965[2] and continued to work as a professor from 1960 until 1998.[1] He was ordered to retire prematurely in 1998, while in the rank of full professor, due to his opposition to the newly passed and repressive Universities Act.Dimitrijević was the director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, a Serbian non-governmental organisation opposed to the regime of Slobodan Milošević.[2] He was also a member and a vice-chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee (1983–1994), and served as an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice (2001-2003).[2] Dimitrijević was the president of the Yugoslav branch of the International Law Association (2001–2003), and a member of the Anticorruption Council of the Government of the Republic of Serbia (2001–2004).
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