Legal Attorney Božidar Čarmak was born in Bar in 1983.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Kragujevac in 2010.
During his studies, he represented the Faculty of Law as a participant in international MOOT COURT competitions, including:
the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2006),
the WUS Austria – Balkan Case Challenge for Serbia and Montenegro (2006), and
the United Nations Association of Serbia – Belgrade International Model United Nations (2008).
He began his legal career by representing a group of coastal real estate owners under the initiative “Our Heretidge” during the period 2015–2017.
From 2016 to 2020, he provided legal assistance to the NGO Matica Boke, an association representing branches of property owners in the coastal region, serving simultaneously as Vice President of the Association’s Assembly.
He is the author of the NGO Declaration on the Protection of Private Property, adopted in 2015 and proclaimed by private property protection groups in the coastal region, non-governmental organizations, intellectuals, and prominent individuals. The Declaration constituted an effective narrative and legal foundation for preventing excessive state interventionism and legal insecurity of private property owners in Montenegro.
From the commencement of the expropriation project in 2018 to the present day, within the framework of the capital state infrastructure project — the Smokovac interchange on the Bar–Boljare highway — he has been leading the legal protection of the property interests of private real estate owners.
He has acquired extensive professional experience in client representation and dispute resolution at all levels of decision-making institutions, primarily before courts of all local jurisdictions in Montenegro, as well as before the Higher Courts in Bijelo Polje and Podgorica, the Commercial Court of Montenegro, the Administrative Court of Montenegro, the Court of Appeal of Montenegro, the Supreme Court of Montenegro, the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. His practice also includes proceedings before misdemeanor courts, the Police Directorate, the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, the Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, state and local administrative authorities, public enforcement officers of all jurisdictions, as well as advisory work in legal transactions, negotiations, corporate and status changes, preparation of documentation, drafting of general acts, and other legal matters.
Until 2022, Attorney Bo Car served at the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro as Director General for Criminal and Civil Legislation, and held numerous other public offices, including:
Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Criminal Code of Montenegro;
Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Montenegro;
Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Law on the Treatment of Juveniles in Criminal Proceedings;
Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Law on Misdemeanours;
Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Law on Enforcement and Security;
Deputy Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Law on Lobbying;
Chair of the Working Group for drafting amendments to the Law on Certification of Signatures, Transcripts, and Manuscripts;
Chair of the Commission for assessing the competencies, knowledge, and abilities of candidates for Directors General of the Ministry of Justice, Human and Minority Rights;
Deputy Chair of the Commission for assessing the professional knowledge of bankruptcy trustees;
Member of the Committee on Legal Cooperation of the Council of Europe;
Member of the Intersectoral Working Group for the analysis and amendment of regulations governing crisis management procedures of the Ministry of Defence;
Chair of the Commission for the assessment of market value of assets of the Council for Privatization and Capital Projects in the ad Solana Bajo Sekulić Ulcinj proceedings.
Since 2023, he has been registered as a licensed bankruptcy trustee and has been acting in numerous bankruptcy proceedings before the Commercial Court of Montenegro.
Since 2024, he has been appointed President of the Commission for Restitution and Compensation in Bar, under the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property, a position he continues to hold.
He has been married since 2010 with his wife Milkica and is the father of four children.
He provides legal representation in Serbian and English.
He actively practices law at 65 Bratstva Jedinstva Street, Podgorica, Montenegro.