Dr Nevena Jevremovic

Biography

Dr Jevremović is an interdisciplinary scholar examining how discourse at the intersection of law, language, and power shapes the normative and interpretive dimensions of private law in international contexts.

She has published in leading journals, including Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Journal of Law and Commerce, and University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and contributed chapters to volumes with Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar, and Kluwer Law International. She is currently preparing a monograph under contract with Edward Elgar (forthcoming, 2028). The project addresses a key gap in scholarship on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which often detaches interpretation from its historical context while maintaining assumptions of neutrality. Drawing on law, philosophy, and literary studies, it shows that interpretation is rhetorical, relational, and context dependent, advancing critical approaches to international sales and trade law.

Dr. Jevremović has held visiting teaching and research positions at institutions including the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (USA), Prince Sultan University (KSA), and Pace University (USA). She was deeply involved in the Willem C. Vis Moot competition for a decade, supporting teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina advance to rounds of 64 and beyond. She also brings practical legal experience from her time as an Associate at Wolf Theiss in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Zenica, LL.M. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (cum laude) and the University of Sarajevo (with distinction), and a B.A. in Law from the University of Sarajevo.

Prizes and Awards

Aberdeen Humanities Fund Staff Research Awards 2024 (Lead Applicant)

Current Research

Rhetorical Community and the Question of Equality in the Vienna Sales Convention 

This project project historically contextualises the link between social, political and economic factors that underpinned the drafting and the consequent interpretation and application of the CISG. Drawing on a set of complementary interdisciplinary approaches from law, philosophy, and literary studies, the project challenges the narrative that interpretation of the Convention is technical, value-neutral, or objective. Instead, it shows that such interpretation is rhetorical, relational, and context dependent. The project further charts a path to critical approaches to the study of international sales law and, more broadly, international trade law. 

Death and Law: Interdisciplinary Explorations

Death and Law Interdisciplinary Explorations project, among other strands, engages with non-anthropocentric perspectives on death and the implications thereof on legal responses (for example, the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill introduced in 2025), how law takes account of emotions in the context of death in a range of legal contexts, and how historical narratives of death and collective memory are reflected in international law. In 2026, the project received Royal Society of Edinburgh Grant to organise a series of interdisciplinary events and public engagement activities. In 2024, the project received internal funding from the Aberdeen Humanities Fund Staff Research Awards to produce a podcast series: Death and Law' podcast | News | The University of Aberdeen

Rhetorical Forms of Sustainability through the Lens of Sustainable Consumption and Production

The project examines how corporate and state, as twin institutional forms, through discourse and rhetoric shaped the conceptualisation of sustainability as sustainable production practices centred on voluntarism. It traces the evolution of ideas such as clean production, sustainable development, and degrowth, from their origins in international norm making context of 1970s to the adoption of mandatory human rights and due diligences regulation. The project explores the broader context that enabled and supported the narrative shift to voluntarism. Beyond the Stockholm Conference, the 1970s were marked by the New International Economic Order, the UN Draft Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, and the rise of neoliberalism. Coupled with the debt crisis in the 1980s and the reframed relationship between the state and the market in favour of market‑driven solutions, a narrative of weak state regulation in favour of voluntarism emerged and has been sustained across international law (notably, international economic law).