On the mountain of Kopaonik, on December 13-17, 2024, the 37th meeting of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law – “Slobodan Perović” was held. This year’s meeting was attended by several hundreds participants from Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Republic of Srpska, and the Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, as well as guests from Italy and Germany.
The main topic of this year’s meeting was the right to justice – challenges of modern times. In addition to this topic, quite a lot of attention was dedicated to the issue of artificial intelligence and the possibility of its use in legislation. Particular interest was risen by the announcing of possibility for artificial intelligence to take the role of judge in further development, in order to pass independently verdicts and decisions, based on the establishment of factual situation and consultation of the available case law. Similarly, the possibility was analysed for the artificial intelligence to participate in the drafting of contracts from various fields, which, according to some participants, would finally lead to the possibility that the AI may represent each party, or two or more AIs may mutually negotiate on the contents of the contract. However, within the panel discussion “Importance and Role of New Technologies in the Improving of Judicial Expertise”, it has been indicated that there may be dangers of uncritical implementation of AI in legislation, in particular when insuring impartiality.
In addition to the above mentioned, two more panel discussions were held: “How to make the judiciary a more attractive profession” and “The influence of the Constitutional Court on the administrative legal protection in the Republic of Serbia”. Also, in the framework of the 37th meeting of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, a round table of the Notary Chamber of Serbia was held for the second time.
The experts from the Intellectual Property Office, attending the meeting, in the framework of the IV Cathedra – Right to IP Asset – presented their expert work under the title “Rationalization of Proposals and Their Legal Protection”, that belongs to the domain of patent law. The paper inspired great interest of the participants and initiated a discussion about the problems in the field of the protection of inventions and other innovations which do not represent patentable inventions. Of other three papers in this section, one belonged to the field of copyright, and the remaining two related to the indications of geographical origin.