nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/eeccee85fc56aeba DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260302s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/eeccee85fc56aeba doi eng 342 23 Miljojkovic, Teodora Author aut The Pseudo-Technical Purge - Serbia’s “Mrdić Laws” and the Re-Engineering of the Justice System Miljojkovic, Teodora Verfassungsblog 2026-03-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In January 2026, Serbia adopted a package of amendments to core judicial statutes, informally labelled the “Mrdić laws”, that together recalibrate key elements of the country’s prosecutorial and judicial framework. At the centre of the reform lies the restructuring of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime. The “Mrdić laws” illustrate a contemporary mode of rule-of-law erosion in which formal guarantees of independence remain textually intact, even as the functional capacity of key institutions is deliberately weakened. CC BY-SA 4.0 independence of prosecutors judicial blacksliding judicial independence Rule of Law Serbia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/serbia-judicial-reform-backsliding/ raw object