Nikola Selaković

Minister of Justice and State Administration of the Republic of Serbia.

Nikola Selaković, Minister of Justice in the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

Mr. Selaković was born on 30 April 1983 in Užice. Having completed his graduate and master academic studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, he began his doctoral studies in 2010.  

During his student years, along with achieving exceptional academic success, he won the oratory competition organized by the Faculty of Law on three occasions (in 2004, 2005 and 2007). In addition, he was a member of the team at the international “Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition” organized in the field of International Public Law. In 2007 he received the first award of the Alan Watson Foundation for the project titled “Dušan's Code and Legal Transcripts”.  

He is the founder of the Serbian cultural association “Despot Stefan Lazarević” and was its President from 2011 until 2012. Since 2010 he has been the President of the Institute “Oratoria” – Rhetoric Center. In addition, he has been a member since 2003 and Secretary since 2005 of the Club for Admirers of Ancient and Roman Law, “Forum Romanum”, founded at the Faculty of Law.

During the period 2005-2009 he was engaged by the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade in the capacity of the staff member responsible for the organization of all the important, special events. In 2009 he became Expert Lecture Assistant for the courses “Comparative Legal Tradition” and “National History of the State and Law” at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. In 2010 he was appointed Research Assistant in these courses.  

Apart from Serbian as his mother tongue, he is fluent in English but also possesses solid knowledge of French and Italian as well as some basic knowledge of Greek and Ancient Greek languages.

He joined the world of politics in 2008 when he became a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SPP) at the time of its founding. He is a member of Central and Executive Boards and President of the Party’s Legal Council.  He was elected member of the Presiding Body of SPP in September 2012.  

In July 2012 he was appointed Minister of Justice and State Administration in the Government of the Republic of Serbia. He simultaneously became a member of the High Court Council and the State Prosecutorial Council.