Maja Kostić - Mandić, is a full professor at the University of Montenegro Faculty of Law. Her main fields of expertise are Private International Law, Environmental Law, International Commercial Arbitration law and Human Rights.

Her career is marked by her interest in linking legal theory with practice. Since 2005 she is strongly committed to research, expert work and teaching on EU law.

She coordinated and worked on numerous international and national projects and as a leading national expert was in charge of progress monitoring in harmonizing Montenegrin with the EU law in the field of environment for more than 30 directives (2005-2009); as a member of the Parliament of Montenegro she gave her professional view regarding the most important legal acts of a newly independent state and their alignment with the EU law (2006-2009); as an independent legal expert took part in drafting Private International Act which is strongly influenced by the EU law; as a member of European network of legal experts she is the author of annual reports on the alignment of the Montenegrin law with the EU non-discrimination directives.

She introduced and gradually increased number of classes on EU law for all her university courses. She is the author (for graduate) and co-author (for a primary and secondary school) of textbooks on EU law. She was a mentor or a member of the commission for several master thesis on EU topics, and the Committee member for defending doctoral thesis 'L'influence du droit communautaire sur la régulation publique de la concurrence dans les pays d'Europe de l'Est' of Irena Dajković, at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Nantes, France.

She has more than 100 published items, including 12 monographs, books and textbooks (among them, 6 published in EU countries). Most of those works address or focus on EU law in their respective field.

She is involved in numerous trainings and lectures for different stakeholders on environmental topics and is a lecturer at Montenegrin Judicial Training Centre, where teaches EU Private international law to Montenegrin judges.

Among other things, she is a Van Calker scholar of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, a Chevening scholar of the University College London and a scholar of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

She is a member of the Board for Legal and Political Sciences of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Vice President of the Montenegrin Association of Lawyers.

She is the winner of the Accolade of the University of Montenegro for the special contributions in the development of scientific research, professional and artistic work and international positioning of the University in 2020 upon the proposal of the Faculty of Law.

She is fluent in English and Italian, speaks French and German.

Professor Dražen Cerović is a full professor at UoM Faculty of Law since 2019.  He is the expert member of SIGMA for the area of public administration in Montenegro. He was the Advisor to the President of the Constitutional Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro in the period 2006-2008. He was the Advisor to the Government of Montenegro, within the Coordination Team for the Strategy on Euro-Atlantic Integrations in the period 2008-2011.

He is a member of the Senate of the Association of Lawyers of Montenegro. He was a member of the Council for Civil Control of Police Work since 2015, and the President of the Council since 2017. He is the President of the Association for Democratic Legal Order, which brings together experts in the field of public law since 2001. He was the academic director of the Centre for Public Administration of Montenegro 2003-2005. He is an Associate is the University of Texas in Dallas and Arlington.

He was the national coordinator of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the Public Administration Reform project in Montenegro 2001-2002. He is a member of several expert teams and working groups of the Parliament and the Government of Montenegro He was the President of the Court of Honour of the University of Montenegro. He was the Vice-

Dean for teaching of the Law Faculty of the University of Montenegro in the period 2009-2011.

Dr Aneta Spaić is the dean of the Law School University of Montenegro. Since 2018, she serves as the member of the Prosecutorial Council of Montenegro, a body with the mandate, among else, to monitor the quality of implementation of national criminal legislation, as well as national regulatory framework on protection of human rights, with the latter including human rights protection standards embodied in European Convention on Human Rights.

She also serves as arbitrator of the International Arbitration Court attached to Chamber of Commerce. She is the member of the scientific board of the University of Montenegro, and the member of the Global Young Academy in Berlin. In 2010 she was appointed for the national correspondent by Government of Montenegro in UNCITRAL.

She gave lectures/speeches on various business legal issues ranging from arbitration, privacy rights, EU law, from 2000 to 2014 in a variety of forums from Washington DC to Dallas, Texas to New York, and countries such as Austria, Belgrade, Croatia, Germany, Montenegro, Netherlands and Spain. In addition, she experienced teaching law in law schools and undergraduate forums, having taught International Business Law at Washington and Lee Law School, Lexington, VA.

She is the (co) author of monographs entitled Commercial and Economic Law in Montenegro and Media Law in Montenegro published by Kluwer International, New Lex Mercatoria and Termination of Sale Contract, Mediation in Commercial Disputes, Legal Aspects of Mitigating Risks in Project Finance and (co) writer of significant number of articles in the scientific, professional international and national journals. Her areas of interest are: Media Law, EU Law, International and EU Business Law, International Contract Law, and International Commercial Arbitration.

Nikola Dožić is a teaching assistant at the Faculty of law University of Montenegro since 2014, and is currently in the selection process for the first academic title of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law. Therefore, by the time of the perceived start of MLEUIM, he will be Assistant professor.

He is an author of number of papers on consumer protection in Montenegro, and European law perspectives in this field.

Since 2017, he is a member of the Centre for Young Scientists of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Since 2017, he is a member of the Consumer Protection Council of the Ministry of Economy of the Government of Montenegro.

From 2018 to July 2019, he served as Secretary of the CANU Centre for Young Scientists.
In July 2019, he was elected President of CANU's Centre for Young Scientists and Artists.

Nikolina Tomović is a Teaching Assistant and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro, since 2020. She specializes in Competition law and EU Competition law. Nikolina Tomović is a member of the Government of Montenegro working group in charge of accession negotiations with the EU in Chapter 8 – Competition law.
She earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Magister Legum degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro. The research stay for the purpose of completing her master's thesis was conducted at the Europa Institute of Saarland University in Germany, followed by the successful defense of her master's thesis titled 'Concerted Practices as an Obstacle to Competition on the Internal Market of the European Union' in November 2022, receiving a grade of 'A' (10).
For two consecutive years, she represented the Faculty of Law at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, a global competition in the field of commercial arbitration, where she and her team achieved notable results. Since 2021, she has been engaged as a coach preparing students for participation in the Vis Moot competition, and since 2020, she has been a member of the Western Balkans Pre Moot Alumni network.
Nikolina worked as a coordinator of various project activities in the field of youth activism and youth education, where she was a lecturer and mentor for students and high school students. Nikolina speaks English and uses German and Italian.