Ljubica Djordjević
Dr. Ljubica Djordjević is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Justice and Governance cluster. A constitutional lawyer by training, her research focuses on European and national legal frameworks, with particular attention to the impact of European minority protection standards on national minority protection regimes. Her work centers on the dynamics of international monitoring and the interaction between European monitoring bodies and states parties. She is also interested in institutional frameworks for implementing national minority rights, and more broadly, in methods for assessing the quality of their implementation in practice. More recently, her research has shifted toward questions of integration, especially the compatibility of minority protection regimes with broader cross-community integration. Within the field of minority rights, she is particularly drawn to issues of minority language rights.
Ljubica has coordinated and contributed to a range of international projects and initiatives in the field of minority protection and governance. She coordinated the GIZ-funded project “Minority Protection for EU Accession” in Serbia, supporting the country in meeting EU benchmarks on national minorities through training sessions, peer-to-peer exchanges, and publications. She was also actively involved in the COST Action “ENTAN – the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network”, co-organizing a Training School, conducting a Short-Term Scientific Mission in Slovenia, producing educational videos, and co-editing and contributing to the textbook “Non-Territorial Autonomy: An Introduction”. Additionally, she contributed to the Jean Monnet project “Boosting European Security Law and Policy” (BeSEC), coordinating a workshop on data collection, editing a special issue of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), and contributing a chapter to the final volume.
Ljubica serves as Executive Editor of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues, coordinating a consortium of six partner institutions.
Djordjević, L. and Payet, M. (2025). Navigating the Ratification Stalemate of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Seeking a Breakthrough. 22 European Yearbook of Minority Issues, 35-47.
Djordjević, L. (2023). The Many Faces of Minority Non-Territorial Autonomy. In: Marina Andeva et al. (eds.), Non-Territorial Autonomy. An Introdcution. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. pp. 165-183.
Djordjević, L. (2023). Non-Territorial Autonomy and Minority Rights: Impact of the Self-Governing National Communities on Minority Protection in Slovenia. In: David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski, and Flavia Ghencea (eds.), Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. pp. 139-153.
Djordjević, L. (2022). The legal status of languages/‘languages’ that emerged from Serbo-Croatian: Destabilizing effects of the provisions on the official language. Language Problems and Language Planning, 46(2), 146–170.
Djordjević, L. (2021). Processing of Ethnic Data. Juggling between Data Protection and Diversity Management. In: Marco Ventura et al. (eds.), Boosting European Security Law and Policy. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. pp. 203-234.
Djordjević, L. (2019). Consultative Bodies as Channels for Minority Participation in Public Affairs, in: Tove H. Malloy, Caitlin Boulter (eds.), Minority Issues in Europe: New Ideas and Approaches. Volume 2. Berlin: Frank & Time, 2019. pp. 197-228.
Djordjević, L. (2018). The FCNM at 20: Is There Indeed a Crisis?. ECMI Issue Brief #42.
Djordjević, L., Malloy, T.H. (with Černega, S.). (2017). Drafting Domestic Legislation Provisioning National Minority Rights: The Dos and Don’ts According to the Council of Europe, ECMI Research Paper #104.
