Miloš Hrnjaz
Affiliate Researcher in the South-South Dialogues Program
location
Belgrade, Serbia
miloshrnjaz@fpn.bg.ac.rs
Miloš Hrnjaz is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science, where he teaches Public International Law, Use of Force in International Law, and International Humanitarian Law. He completed his PhD at the University of Belgrade in 2016, focusing on the practice of the International Court of Justice in the formation and identification of international customary law.
Miloš’s current research explores the classification of armed conflicts, with a special emphasis on those in Yugoslavia. He has been a Research Fellow at prestigious institutions like the Geneva Academy of IHL and Human Rights, American University – Washington College of Law, and Leiden University. Miloš also has experience as a Personal Assistant to the Chief Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia. He is a co-founder of the Belgrade International Law Circle.
His work is critical to understanding the complexities of international law and humanitarian issues, which aligns with the NSI’s mission to advance global peace and justice through research and collaboration.
Publications
- Hrnjaz, M. (2025) Conceptualising the New (Global) South: Perspectives from International Law. NSI Working Paper No. 02 (WP02/2025). New South Institute.
- Vidojević, J. and Hrnjaz, M. (2025) ‘Worldmaking in Transition: Africa and the Post-Western Global Order’, Brave New Europe, 25 September. Available at: https://braveneweurope.com/jelena-vidojevic-milos-hrnjaz-worldmaking-in-transition-africa-and-the-post-western-global-order (Accessed: 26 September 2025).
- Hrnjaz, M., & Radončić, M. (2023). Geneva, We Have a Problem: Internationalisation of Armed Conflicts through Indirect Intervention Remains a Dead Letter. Israel Law Review, 1–33.
- Hrnjaz, M. (2021). The Dissolution of Yugoslavia before the Court: The Legal Classification of Armed Conflicts in Yugoslavia before Serbian Courts (Original title: Raspad Jugoslavije pred sudom: pravna kvalifikacija oružanih sukoba u Jugoslaviji u praksi sudova u Srbiji). OSCE.
- Hrnjaz, M. (2021). Nature of Customary International Law: All We Need is Practice. Pravni zapisi, XII(2), 550–576.
- Hrnjaz, M., & Simentic Popovic, J. (2020). Protracted Armed Violence as a Criterion for the Existence of Non-International Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and Beyond. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 25(3), 473–500.
- Hrnjaz, M. (2019). The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran: An International Armed Conflict of Low Intensity. War Report 2019. Geneva Academy.
- Hrnjaz, M. (2019). Yugoslavia and Self-determination of Peoples: The Power to Create and the Power to Destroy. Journal of Regional Security.
- Hrnjaz, M. (2019). Eastern Europe Before the World Court: Thumbelina of International Legal Order? Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta u Nišu, 99–117.
- Hrnjaz, M., & Milošević, A. (2018). Exploring Serbia – Kosovo trade relations: Achieving peace through trade interdependence? Ethnopolitics, 17(1), 95–112.
