Sofija Mandić

Sofija Mandić was born in 1986 in Novi Sad. She is a law graduate, a member of the Republic Electoral Commission in its permanent composition, and registered in the Ministry of Justice’s Register of Mediators in Peaceful Dispute Resolution. She is a long-standing human rights activist.

She works at the Center for Judicial Research (CEPRIS), and previously was engaged with the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, the National Democratic Institute, and as a volunteer at a law firm and the Commissioner for Equality Protection. She is the general secretary of the media outlet Peščanik, with which she has collaborated since 2007, initially as a participant in radio shows and later as an author of texts.

She is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous analyses on the rule of law, the state of human rights in Serbia, and their perspectives. Some of her recent works include: “Publicity of the Work of the High Judicial Council and the High Prosecutorial Council” (2025), “Models of the Rules of Procedure for the HJC and HPC” (co-authored with M. Pajvančić), “Elections Before the Administrative Court 2022 – Review of Proceedings and Decisions” (edited by CEPRIS, 2022), “Freedom of Expression in Court” (edited by SĆF, 2021-2022), “The Work of Courts During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (OEBS, 2021), “Human Rights in Serbia” (report on the judiciary, BCLJP, 2018-2023), “Our Collapsed Rights” (FES, 2019), “Conditions for the Election and Advancement of Judges and Prosecutors in Legal Education” (CEPRIS, 2018), and “The Recent Constitution of Serbia – Gender Perspective” (ŽPRS, 2017).

As a representative of civil society, she participated in the process of drafting comments and opinions on the amendments to the Constitution in 2022, laws, and bylaws arising from these changes. For the conduct of local elections in 2023, she was a member of the City Electoral Commission of Belgrade in its extended composition, on the proposal of the “Serbia Against Violence” Coalition.

As a result of this engagement, she participated in drafting complaints to electoral commissions, appeals to courts, criminal charges to prosecutors, and requests for the annulment of elections submitted to the Constitutional Court due to irregularities that significantly affected the electoral outcome. She is the author of the book “In the Circle of Negation, Years of Parliamentary (Non)Confrontation with the Bad Past in Serbia” (2023).