Dr. Ana Čović

Dr. Ana Čović, Principal Research Fellow, was born in 1980 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 2004, and three years later she passed the bar exam at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Adoption as a form of protection of children without parental care" in 2012, after completing her three-year doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of Union University in Belgrade.

After graduation, as a trainee lawyer, she represented parties in litigation, non-litigation, criminal proceedings, as well as in commercial disputes before competent courts and other state bodies. In the period from 2008 to 2010, she was employed as the secretary of the Faculty of Management of Small and Medium Enterprises of the University of Economics, as well as in the legal department of the European University in Belgrade. From 2010 to 2012, she was engaged as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Construction Management of the Union - Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade and in the legal department of the same University. Since 2012, she has worked at the Institute of Comparative Law, where she earned the title of research associate (2013) and Senior Research Associate (2019). She started the procedure for the election to the highest scientific position through the Institute for Political Studies, where she has been employed since November 2024, after she was elected to the position of Principal Research Fellow by the decision of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. In research work, she deals with topics that are becoming more and more current from the aspect of legal norms, but also from the aspect of religion, sociology, philosophy, ethics, digital technologies and medicine.

Areas of interest: family law, human rights, bioethics, religions, artificial intelligence in the light of contemporary legal challenges, multiculturalism of contemporary societies and the coexistence of secular and religious law.

She is the author of two monographs and more than 60 scientific papers in these fields.