STUDENT BLOCKADES IN SERBIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

The richness of real life constantly forces us to reconsider our understanding of the current legal norms in the field of human rights. Serbian society faced such challenges, especially during the famous student blockades last year and this year. In the turbulent mass of social turmoil, intractable problems of conflict between individual human rights appeared on the scene of the political and legal order, which represents inspiring research material; for questioning and reconsidering the power of the legal order to resolve them with existing regulations. For these reasons, it seemed acceptable to the authors to engage in an analysis of the state of human rights "on the ground" and within the formal framework of legal norms. Several months of social life burdened by student blockades and protests reveal the true extent of the legal order's (in)ability to establish the sustainability of the application of its own rules on respect for individual human rights when their implementation is threatened. The authors assume that the results of the research will lead us to the field of value-based re-examination of the current legal order, especially when it comes to its implementation. In addition, it is to be expected that certain inconsistencies in the existing concept of human rights will be observed.