Vladan Vasilijević was one of the most prominent Yugoslav specialists in criminal law in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s he was engaged as a human rights lawyer promoting a democratic civil society and the rule of law in Serbia. In December 1989 he was one of the members of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party

The Founding Committee of the Democratic Party

The Founding Committee of the Democratic Party were a group of pro-democracy activists and intellectuals who believed in transforming the communist one-party state of Yugoslavia into a modern democratic civil society...

. The Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Serbia)

The Democratic Party is a political party in Serbia. It is described as a social liberal or social democratic party.-Pre-war history:The Democratic Party was established on 16 February 1919 from unification of Sarajevo parties independent radicals, progressives, liberals and the Serbian part of...

 was the first non-communist opposition party in Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. Later he left the Democratic Party to join the Serbian Liberal Party

Serbian Liberal Party

The Serbian Liberal Party was a political party in Serbia. It was founded by a group of 10 members of the Democratic Party who left their former party only a few days prior to the 1990 parliamentary elections...

 led by Kosta Čavoški

Kosta Cavoški

Kosta Čavoški is a professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. He is an outspoken critic of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and is a Serbian nationalist.He was one of the thirteen initiators of the re-establishment of the Democratic Party in Serbia on...

 and Nikola Milošević

Nikola Miloševic (politician)

Nikola Milošević, PhD was a Serbian writer, political philosopher, literary critic, and politician....

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