17 Facts About Smilja Avramov

Smilja Avramov was a Serbian academic, legal scholar, social activist and educator in international law.

Smilja Avramov was a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska from 1996 to 2009.

Smilja Avramov was maternally related to Petar Preradovic and Pavle Solaric.

Smilja Avramov graduated in the Zagreb Law Faculty in 1947.

Smilja Avramov received her master's degree in London and a PhD in Belgrade in 1950.

Smilja Avramov studied at the Vienna, Harvard and Columbia Universities.

Since 1949 until her retirement, Smilja Avramov worked as an assistant and a professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Law where she was head of the Department for International Law and Relationships and director of the Institute for International Law.

Smilja Avramov was active in many law associations including the one in Belgrade.

Smilja Avramov was president of the Yugoslav International Law Association and, since 1980, a president of the International Law Association.

Smilja Avramov was a member of Committee on Formation of Customary International Law whose report was submitted at London conference held in 2000.

Smilja Avramov was president of the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace.

Smilja Avramov publicly opposed the practice of humanitarian interventionism, emphasizing that the main danger for the modern world is neither nationalism or communism, but legal nihilism.

In 2006, Smilja Avramov was one of the professors who signed the request for rehabilitation of Draza Mihailovic.

Smilja Avramov served as an advisor to Slobodan Milosevic between 1991 and 1992 and was a witness for the defence at his trial in 2004.

Smilja Avramov helped to found the Committee for the Protection of Serbs from the Hague Tribunal and was a member of the International Committee for the Truth of Radovan Karadzic, assisting with his unsuccessful defence on charges of war crimes.

Smilja Avramov expressed her disagreement in 2013 when the Government of Serbia signed the Brussels Agreement with the Government of Kosovo, saying that it violates the Constitution of Serbia and the Charter of the United Nations and indirectly recognizes Kosovo as an independent state.

Smilja Avramov died in Belgrade on 2 October 2018 at the age of 100.