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Author: Janko Paunović

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Janko Paunović is a legal scholar specializing in Roman Law, Civil Law, and Legal History, having earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2025. His professional career includes extensive experience as a University Assistant in Vienna and current post-doctoral and habilitation roles at the University of Montenegro and the University of Vienna. He has presented his findings at prestigious international conferences across Europe and Japan and is widely published in academic journals such as the Journal on European History of Law. Additionally, Dr. Paunović is fluent in Serbian, English, and German, and is actively involved in several international legal and historical organizations.

The Judge is Their Own Executioner: How Constitutional Judges’ Self-Decisions on Their Own Terms of Office Endanger the Montenegrin Rule of Law

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This translation is a redesigned reproduction of the original article that was published on Verfassungsblog on the 15th of January 2026. The original article can be found at the following link Introduction The election of a new judge to the Montenegrin Constitutional Court on November 25, 2025, has once again revealed a structural problem: the judges … →