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

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was the first non-communist opposition party in

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. Later he left the Democratic Party to join the

Serbian Liberal Party The Serbian Liberal Party ( sr-cyr, Српска либерална странка, Srpska liberalna stranka; abbr. СЛС or SLS) was a classical-liberal, nationalist and monarchist political party in Serbia. Background The Democratic Party (D ...

led by Kosta Čavoški and Nikola Milošević. He died on 29 April 1997 in

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