Faculty of Law
Biography
Andreja Mihailović, PhD was born on May 7, 1989, in Podgorica, where she completed primary school and high school with outstanding success, winning awards at national competitions. She obtained her undergraduate and specialist degrees at the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro, a master’s degree in business law at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and in 2020 earned her PhD after successfully defending her dissertation on “Derivative Lawsuits.” For this research, she spent a period at the University of Birmingham (UK) as a British Scholarship Trust fellow, where she also attended additional training programs in information security, digitalization, and data protection.
During her studies, she participated in the regional Moot Court competition before the European Court of Human Rights and was the recipient of several distinguished awards. These include the Faculty of Law annual awards for academic excellence, the December 19th Award of the Capital City for exceptional scholarly achievement, the Aristide Theodorides Foundation plaque for the best paper in legal history (“The Roman Concept of Justice”), as well as merit-based scholarships awarded by the Ministry of Education of Montenegro to top-performing students.
In addition, she completed a range of programs within: the Institute for Sociological and European Studies (ISES, Hungary), University of Tartu (Estonia), South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG, Moldova), E-Government Summer Academy of the Swedish Institute and Linköping University (SEGRID, Sweden), Marie Curie Alumni Association “From Research to Innovation,” Summer School “EU and Legal Reform” (CCSDD, University of Bologna), Digital Week (University Côte d’Azur), Cybersecurity in a Global Digital Age: Policy and Management(Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luiss School of Government), Hybrid Threats and Cyber Defence (European Security and Defence College, Athens), among others.
She has published extensively in prestigious national and international journals in the fields of business and criminal law, with a focus on IT law, cybersecurity, computer crime, digital investigations, electronic evidence, cyber diplomacy, and legal-policy aspects of digital transformation, including the monograph Information Technology Law Montenegro(Wolters Kluwer).
Mihailović coordinated the national project team in preparing the application for hosting the “Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Centre (WB3C)”—a project of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Government of Slovenia aimed at establishing a regional structure for strengthening cyber resilience and capacity building in the Western Balkans. She was also a member of the organizational team of the ITU Her Cyber Track project and director of the first educational program in cybersecurity of the European Security and Defence College in Montenegro.
In 2022, she was appointed as a distinguished expert in digitalization by the Human Resources Authority of Montenegro for the assessment of knowledge, competencies, and skills required for public administration work, where she also serves as a trainer in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
In 2023, she conducted research on digital evidence at Durham Law School (UK), after which she was appointed as an external member of the Centre for Criminal Law and Justice. During 2023 and 2024, she delivered guest lectures in cybersecurity (Science and Technology Park, Sofia), AI (University of Seville), and on the “Cybercrime” module at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland.
She is a member of the European Law Institute (ELI), a member of the Executive Academic Board of the ESDC, and President of Women4Cyber Montenegro.
1. Mihailović, A. (2013). Roman Notions of Justice. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 3/2013, 257–269. (Awarded first prize: Aristide Theodorides Essay Competition)
2. Mihailović, A. (2015). The (Non)Legal Binding Nature of Corporate Social Responsibility. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 3–4/2015, 241–261.
3. Mihailović, A. (2016). Jusnaturalism vs. Juspositivism. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 1/2016, 241–272.
4. Mihailović, A. (2018). The Third Generation of Human Rights. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 1/2018, 161–182.
5. Mihailović, A. (2018). The Right to a Healthy Environment as an Intergenerational Phenomenon. Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade – Belgrade Law Review, 66(1), 236–255.
6. Breda, V., Mihailović, A. (2019). New Caledonia: The Archipelago that Does Not Want to Be Freed. Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, XXIV, 69–95.
7. Mihailović, A., Rašović, N. (2020). Cybersecurity in the New Reality: Systematic Review in the Context of COVID-19. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 5(12), 1088–1091.
8. Mihailović, A., Jovanović, Lj., Rajčić, V. (2020). Climate Change as a Threat to the Global Economy. GEA International Conference Proceedings, 140–150.
9. Mihailović, A. (2020). The Triumphal March of Legal Transplantation in Company Law. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 1/2020, 345–370.
10. Mihailović, A., Prelević, L. (2020). Lifting the Corporate Veil – Disregarding Legal Personality. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 2/2020, 73–90.
11. Mihailović, A. (2020). Evolution of Law between the Scylla of Provincialism and the Charybdis of Legal Uncertainty. 33rd Kopaonik School of Natural Law – Proceedings, 7–11.
12. Mihailović, A. (2021). Societas Delinquere (Non) Potest: Corporate Criminal Liability. In: Criminal Law Reforms in India – Recent Issues and Challenges, 32–39.
13. Mihailović, A. (2021). Probatio Diabolica and the Fruits of the Poisonous Tree. 34th Kopaonik School of Natural Law – Proceedings, 597–613.
14. Mihailović, A., Cerović Smolović, J., Radević, I., Rašović, N., Martinović, N. (2021). COVID-19 and Beyond: Employee Perceptions of the Efficiency of Teleworking and Its Cybersecurity Implications. Sustainability, 13(12), 6750.
15. Mihailović, A., Garaplija, E. (2022). The S3 Platform as a Digital Transition Accelerator in EU Enlargement Countries. International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies, 2(1), 167–169.
16. Mihailović, A. (2022). The Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade: Shaping Europe’s Digital Future. Faculty of Law Journal, University of Montenegro, No. 45, 133–151.
17. Mihailović, A. (2022). Comparative Analysis of Judicial Instruments for Shareholder Rights Protection. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 1/2022, 41–62.
18. Mihailović, A., Garaplija, E. (2022). The Integrated Risk Management Framework in Climate-Smart Resilience. COAST Conference Proceedings, 842–847.
19. Mihailović, A. (2022). The Western Balkans’ Digital Integration: From the Digital Agenda to the Agenda on R&I, Education, Youth, and Culture. 9th REDETE Conference Proceedings, 108–115.
20. Mihailović, A., Sari, M. N. (2022). The Rubik’s Cube of Digital Evidence in the Cybercrime Realm. 35th Kopaonik School of Natural Law – Proceedings, 529–545.
21. Mihailović, A. (2023). The Legal Framework for Cybercrime Accountability in the Western Balkans as a Turning Point for EU Integration. In Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace, 75–92. Publications
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22. Mihailović, A. (2023). The EdTech – Framing the Future of Education. COAST Conference Proceedings, 1355–1360.
23. Mihailović, A. (2023). The Dark Realm of Digital Forensics – To Collect or Not to Collect Electronic Evidence. Law Journal – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice, 1/2023, 123–140.
24. Mihailović, A., Živković, P., Radević, I., Rašović, N. (2023). Information Technology Law in Montenegro. In: International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Privacy and Technology Law. Wolters Kluwer.
25. Mihailović, A. (2024). From Ecocide to Ecological Justice: Towards a New Directive on Environmental Crime. Faculty of Law Journal, University of Montenegro, No. 47. (Accepted for publication)
26. Mihailović, A., Dokić, M. (2024). It Was Impossible to Win the Digital Revolution, but with AI It Is Impossible to Play: Moral Imperative at the Crossroads of Human-AI Coexistence. Existential Threats and Other Disasters Conference, Budva.
27. Mihailović, A., Poustie, M. (2024). From Biodiversity to Bytes: Borderless Nexus of Cybersecurity and Environmental Protection. 37th Kopaonik School of Natural Law – Proceedings.
28. Mihailović, A. (2024). Criminal Law Aspects of Digital Defense in Disaster Risk Reduction. UNDP & University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies.
29. Mihailović, A. (2024). Digital Footprints in the Courtroom: The Rise of Social Media Evidence in Criminal Trials. COAST Conference Proceedings, 906–913.
30. Dokić, M., Bakrač, V., Mihailović, A. (2024). Two Views on the Right of Resistance: Kant’s Denial of the Right and the Vindiciae contra tyrannos. Philosophical Investigations (accepted for publication).
31. Mihailović, A. (2025). Legislation and Leadership in Cybersecurity: Enhancing Parliamentary Capacity for Cyber Resilience in Montenegro. TAG International, FCDO, Obod, Cetinje.