Dr Nevena Jevremovic

Biography

Dr Nevena Jevremović is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen. She 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. 

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 was involved in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot as a coach and CISG expert for over a decade. 

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 

I am currently preparing a manuscript under contract with Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming, 2028), a project that addresses a significant gap in the existing United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (‘CISG’ or ‘Convention’) scholarship, which often isolates interpretation of the Convention from its historical context, while maintaining narratives about its neutrality, apolitical nature, and a lingua franca of international trade. In response, the 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

I am an Associate Lead of the Death and Law Interdisciplinary Explorations project. I lead interdisciplinary teams that engage 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. The project received internal funding from the Aberdeen Humanities Fund Staff Research Awards 2024 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

As a member of the Global Supply Chains and Transnational Private Law Project – Private International Law Sub-group, I contributed to the project with a working paper “From Regulation To Voluntarism: Discursive Power In Globally Fragmented Production” recently published on SSRN as a sub-series under ‘University of Edinburgh School of Law | LSGL Research Project Papers 2024. I am currently working on expanding the theoretical framework of this project to encompass transnational contractual governance in GVCs.