Kosta Čavoški (

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: Коста Чавошки; born 26 October 1941) is a professor at the University of Belgrade's

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. He is an outspoken critic of the

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Biography

He was one of the thirteen initiators of the re-establishment of the

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on 11 December 1989. He was one of the leading members of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party who drafted the first party political program of the Democratic Party published as the Letter of Intent (Pismo o namerama) on 18 January 1990. However, within a year he left the Democratic Party along with Professor Nikola Milošević and others to found his own political entity, the

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. Kosta Čavoški had been a dissident since the 1970s when as an assistant law professor at University of Belgrade in 1973 he published an article critical of the communist system entitled "Which values are protected by our laws?". He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment and thrown out of the Law School. In 1990 he was readmitted to the Law School as a full-time professor, and at the beginning of 1996 the President of Bosnia's

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Radovan Karadžić appointed him a Senator of the entity. On 23 February 2007, Čavoški was briefly questioned by the police in Republika Srpska after visiting the family of Radovan Karadžić, a fugitive accused of war crimes in

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during the

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. In June 2008 he was declared ''

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'' by

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because of his connections, and he was banned from entering the country again.Bosnia to expel Serbian professor
, ''

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'', 4 June 2008

Works

* ''Filozofija otvorenog društva: Politički liberalizam Karla Popera'' (1975) * ''Mogućnosti slobode u demokratiji'' (1981) * ''Ustavnost i federalizam: Sudska kontrola ustavnosti u anglo-saksonskim federacijama'' (1982) * ''Stranački pluralizam ili monizam'' (1983), with Vojislav Koštunica * ''O neprijatelju'' (1989) * ''Revolucionarni makijavelizam'' (1989) * ''Tito – tehnologija vlasti'' (1991) * ''Slobodan protiv slobode'' (1991) * ''Pravo kao umeće slobode. Ogled o vladavini prava'' (1994) * ''Uvod u pravo I. Osnovni pojmovi i državni oblici'' (1994) * ''Na rubovima srpstva'' (1995) * ''Ustav kao jemstvo slobode'' (1996) * ''Uvod u pravo II'' (1996), with Radmila Vasić * ''Zatiranje srpstva'' (1996) * ''Lutka u tuđim rukama'' (1998) * ''Hag protiv pravde'' (1998) * ''Od protektorata do okupacije'' (1998) * ''Apsolutna i ublažena pravda u Eshilovoj Orestiji'' (2001), with Mirjana Stefanovski * ''Zgaženi ustav'' (2003) * ''Okupacija'' (2006) * ''Makijaveli'' (2008) * ''Pod tronom Atlantskog pakta: Evropski sud za ljudska prava'' (2009) * ''Izdaja'' (2009) * ''Odbor za odbranu slobode misli i izražavanja'' (2010) * ''Rasrbljavanje'' (2011) * ''Ustav kao sredstvo agitacije i propagande'' (2011) * ''Srpsko pitanje'' (2011) * ''Anatomija jedne čistke'' (2013) * ''Zloupotreba istorije u Hagu'' (2013) * ''Veleizdaja'' (2014) * ''Da li sudije štite izdaju?'' (2014) * ''Moć i prevlast'' (2015) * ''Nikola Milošević'' (2015) * ''Veleizdaja u višestrukom povratu'' (2016) * ''Kosovo stožer srpstva'' (2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cavoski, Kosta 1941 births Living people Writers from Pančevo Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Serbian Liberal Party politicians Serbian legal scholars Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni Serbian nationalists