Dr Nevena Jevremovic

Biography

Dr Nevena Jevremović is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen. Through, primarily, a socio-legal approach, her research explores the structural relationship between (private) law, power, and capital in international trade and investment.

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.

Internal Memberships

Co-convener, Law and Political Economy Reading Group

Member, Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance 

Member, Centre for Commercial Law

Member, Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law

Member, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee

Current Research

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

The project 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 lead the research into "non-anthropocentric death" with colleagues from the University of Aberdeen and University of Strathclyde. Specifically, this work engages with philosophy, history, anthropology, and social sciences to challenge legal paradigms to expand the understanding of environmental and community destruction as a form of "death" beyond human-centred perspectives. The Death and Law Interdisciplinary Explorations  received internal funding from the Aberdeen Humanities Fund Staff Research Awards 2024 to produce a podcast series. Episode 4 explore the boundaries and limitation of human-centred understandings of death and perceptions of loss, extinction, or degradation in non-human beings and entities such as dead forests, extinct species, or contaminated rivers. Listen here: Death and Law' podcast | News | The University of Aberdeen

Private International Law in Global Value Chains 

As a member of the Global Supply Chains and Transnational Private Law Project – Private International Law Sub-group, I’ve 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.