Miodrag Majić is a

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, judge and author. He is the judge of the Court of Appeals in

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, and the author of numerous books, legal commentaries and articles. Majić is known as a devoted opponent of

penal populism Penal populism is populism related to criminal justice. It tends to manifest in the run up to elections when political parties put forward hard-line policies which they believe the public wants, rather than evidence-based policies based on their ...

in Serbia, which caused various Serbian politicians (most notably Maja Gojković) to lead smear campaigns against him in 2019. In 2019, Majic authored a bestselling

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novel titled ''Deca zla'' (еng. Children of evil) which combines realistic depictions of

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in Serbia with themes of

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and

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Biography

Miodrag Majić was born on 17 November 1969 in

, then the capital of

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. He graduated from

University of Belgrade Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law of the University in Belgrade (/''Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu''), also known as the Belgrade Law School, is one of the first-tier educational institutions of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is locate ...

in 1995 and defended his doctorate in 2008. He speaks Serbian, English and Russian languages. Majić is the father of two sons and a daughter.

Notable works

* ''Primena međunarodnog krivičnog prava u nacionalnim pravnim sistemima'', Službeni glasnik Srbije, 2009 * ''Nature, Importance and limits of finding the Truth in criminal proceedings'', Majić, Ilić, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2013 * ''Вештина писања првостепене кривичне пресуде'', Službeni glasnik Srbije, 2015 * ''Deca zla'', Vulkan, 2019

References

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