Miodrag A. Jovanović was born on July 21, 1971, in Šabac, where he completed his elementary and high school education. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law in 1990 and graduated in 1994. He has been working at the Faculty of Law since 1995, teaching Introduction to Law. He also teaches courses in legal theory at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as optional courses such as Minority Rights and Legal Ethics. He holds the position of full professor. He is a lecturer in the master's program at the European Academy of Legal Theory at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He has authored two books and edited three, along with publishing over fifty papers in monographs and all major domestic journals in the fields of legal theory and political philosophy. Additionally, he has authored four books, edited seven, and published over fifty papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been a visiting lecturer at universities in the USA, Canada, China, the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From 2004 to 2009, he served as the Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He is a member of the international editorial board of several foreign journals and is an editor of two sections in a major project of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social PhilosophyFrom 2022, he is a co-coordinator of the Horizon project "Advancing Cooperation on the Foundations of Law," funded by the EU. He was the first president of the Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy. He is a member of the Management Board of the Serbian Association for Constitutional Law and the president of the Management Board of the Center for Judicial Research (CEPRIS). He is a member of the Interdepartmental Committee for the Study of Human and Minority Rights of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a recipient of a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship. He is also the recipient of the Brandon Research Fellowship for the year 2016, awarded by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge).