Boris Krivokapić (born November 16, 1958, in Belgrade, Serbia) is a full professor of Public International Law as well as of Human Rights. He is professor at Law School of the Samara National Research University "S. P. Korolev" (Samara, Russia).
He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN).
In the past, he worked for 21 years with the Institute of Comparative Law (Belgrade) and was a professor at Law Schools of seven national and private universities in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Russia. He also taught for 9 years at the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade). He held lectures, participated in scientific conferences, symposiums, etc. in Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Soviet Union, Spain, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.
Between 2012 and 2014, he served as Vice-Rector for Science at Megatrend University. He was editor of four books and Editor-in-Chief of leading national scholarly journals Strani pravni zivot (1994–1998 and 2001–2007) and Megatrend Review (2012–2014). He has been cited over 3600 times in 37 countries of Europe, North and Latin Americas, and Asia. His nine books are official textbooks at Law Faculties of nine national and private universities in four countries - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Russia, and Serbia.
Krivokapić graduated from the Faculty of Law at Belgrade University (1979), where he also earned his M.B.A. (1985) and LL.D. (1988).
He is the author of 49 books (of them, 27 as a single author) and nearly 250 other scientific works, published in 24 countries in Europe, America, and Asia.
Among books, he is the single author, most important are (English translations of titles are given in parentheses):
Leksikon međunarodnog prava (“Lexicon Of International Law”), Belgrade 1998, 566 Pp.;
Zaštita manjina: istorijski razvoj, osnovna pitanja i zaštita u okviru UN ("Protection of Minorities: Historical Development, Main Issues and Protection Within the Framework of the United Nations"), Belgrade 2004, 871 Pp.;
Zaštita manjina u regionalnim okvirima i putem bilateralnih sporazuma ("Protection of Minorities Within the Regional Frameworks and Through Bilateral International Agreements"), Belgrade 2004, 889 Pp.;
Zaštita manjina u nacionalnim porecima država ("Protection of Minorities In National Orders of States"), Belgrade 2004, 921 Pp.;
Enciklopedijski rečnik medjunarodnog prava i medjunarodnih odnosa ("Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Law and International Relations"), Belgrade 2010, 1190 Pp.;
Aktuelni problemi međunarodnog prava ("Current Problems of International Law"), Belgrade 2011, 754 Pp.;
Medjunarodno javno pravo ("Public International Law"), 3rd ed., Belgrade 2017, 927 Pp.;
Mir i rat u medjunarodnim odnosima i pravu ("Peace and War in International Relations and Law"), Belgrade 2017, 1074 Pp.
Мирное разрешение международных споров ("Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes"), Самара (Samara National University, Samara, Russia) 2020, 591 Pp.
Международное право в период вооруженных конфликтов ("International Law in Armed Conflicts"), Самара (Samara National University, Samara, Russia) 2021, 834 Pp.
Проблемы международного права ("Problems of International Law"), Самара (Samara National University, Samara, Russia) 2022, 572 Pp.