The Dilemma of Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Discussing Options with a View to EU Accession
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70787-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance

This volume constitutes the first comprehensive examination of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s complex constitutional architecture, authored by a group of distinguished scholars primarily affiliated with leading public universities in the country. Grounded in a two-year research project and scholarly dialogue, it engages critically with the foundational constitutional principles, institutional configurations, and territorial arrangements underpinning the post-Dayton constitutional order. Emphasizing the ongoing challenges of democratic consolidation and European integration, the book offers nuanced perspectives on the interplay between individual and collective rights, federal and consociational models, and multi-level governance. It represents a vital contribution to contemporary constitutional discourse in post-conflict societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sahadžic, Maja

Sekulic, Tatjana

Vranješ, Nevenko

Woelk, Jens

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Über Autor(innen)

Maja Sahadžic is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the School of Law and Researcher at Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice (Utrecht University), Visiting Professor (University of Antwerp), Senior Research Fellow (Law Institute in BiH), Fellow (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights - SIM), and Affiliated Scholar (Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law at CUHK). Maja is Co-chair of the Committee on New Directions in Scholarship of the ICON S.

Tatjana Sekulic is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research (University of Milan-Bicocca). Main fields of her research concern the European integration in polycentric perspective, forced migration studies, new wars and contemporary conflicts, and democratic transition of post-totalitarian regimes.

Nevenko Vranješ is Associate Professor of Political Science (University of Banja Luka). His research interests are related to public administration, political systems, local self-government, and administrative law. He has authored three books and numerous scientific articles. He assumed the office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina in September 2022.

Jens Woelk is Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and at the multidisciplinary School of International Studies (University of Trento). He is Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Comparative Federalism (Eurac Research). He has been engaged in projects and expert missions for the EU and the Council of Europe in the Western Balkans and in the Southern Caucasus.