Nedim Ademovic
Personal details
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Sex: male
Date of birth: February 3, 1972 Place of birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Marital status: married Citizenship: Bosnian Convictions-Disciplinary measures: none |
Work experience | IX. 2013- Venedig Commission
Deputy Member Contact: Thomas Markert, Secretary General F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 88 41 30 48 V.2012 – Bar Association of Canton Sarajevo Attorney at Law Contact: Nikica Gržić, President Obala Kulina Bana broj 6 71000 Sarajevo Tel: +387 33 261 090 IX.2010 – Law Faculty of the University in Zenica Ass. Prof. of Constitutional Law and Constitutional Justice Contact: Prof. Dr. Halid Kurtović, Dean Fakultetska broj 1 71000 Zenica Tel: +387 32 444 710 VI.2010 – Scientific Research Institute “Evropska akademija Sarajevo” Director Contact: Dr. Drino Galičić Fakultet političkih nauka Skenderija 74, 71000 Sarajevo Tel: +387 61 199 851 IX.2009 – Law Faculty of the University in Bihać Ass. Prof. of Constitutional Law Contact: Prof. Dr. Nevzet Veladžić, Dean Mehe Hadžiabdića bb 77000 Bihać Tel: +387 37 310 990 VII. 2009 –V.2010 European Academy Bolzano, Representing Office in Sarajevo Director Contact: Prof. Dr. Joseph Marko Drususallee 1/Viale Druso 1 39100 BOZEN-BOLZANO, Italy Tel: +39 0471 055 201 I. 2009 – IV. 2012 Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Head of Office of the President President of the Constitutional Court of BH Contact: President of the Constitutional Court of BH, Prof. Dr. Miodrag Simović Reisa Džemaludina Čausevića 6/III BH-71000 Sarajevo Tel.:+387 33 561-210 VII. 2007 – I.2009 Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Senior legal adviser Contact: General Secretary of the Constitutional Court of BH, Zdravko Đuričić Reisa Džemaludina Čausevića 6/III BH-71000 Sarajevo Tel.:+387 33 561-210 I. 2007 – VI.2006 Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Head of a provisional Department Contact: General Secretary of the Constitutional Court of BH, Zdravko Đuričić Reisa Džemaludina Čausevića 6/III BH-71000 Sarajevo Tel.:+387 33 561-210 I. 2005 – XII.2006 Commission for Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina Registrar Contact: President of the Commission for Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miodrag Pajić Musala 9/III BH-71000 Sarajevo Tel.:+387 33 561-150 X. 2004 – I. 2005 Commission for Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina Senior lawyer I. 2000-IX.2004 Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Legal adviser Contact: General Secretary of the Constitutional Court of BH, Dusko Kalember Reisa Džemaludina Čausevića 6/III BH-71000 Sarajevo Tel.:+387 33 561-210 1995-1996 WUS Austria (NGO) Logistics officer § Legal support and organization of the maintenance of supplies to the Universities of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the program “Academic life line” Contact: Director General Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek Maiffredygasse 11 A-8010 Graz Tel.: +43 316 382 284
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Education | II 2006 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Advocate exam X 2004 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bar exam IV 2004 Institute for Public Law at Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria Dissertation Doctoral thesis: Four Freedoms of the EC in Context of Bosnia and Herzegovina Contact: Prof. Dr. Joseph Marko Institute for Public Law Universitätsplatz 3 A-8010 Graz Tel.: +43 316 380 9450 IX-XI 2002 The Institute of European Law of the University of Birmingham, Human Rights Law and Practice Programme Certificate of participation Contact: Prof. Dr. Jeremy McBride (j.mcbride@bham.ac.uk) Tim Eicke (TEicke@essexcourt-chambers.co.uk) IX 2000 European Academy of Bozen Summeracademy 2000 Region and Minorities in a Greater Europe Certificate of participation Contact: Lantschner Emma (http://www.eurac.edu/org/Minorities/index.htm) 1995-1999 Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria Master’s degree in law Diploma thesis: “Human Rights Organizations under the Dayton-Agreement and their Cooperation” Contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek Institute for International Law Universitätsplatz 3 A-8010 Graz Tel.: +43 316 380 3410 1991-1994 University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina Finished first two years of Faculty with an excellent note (9.0) 1987-1991- High School, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Emphasis of social science 1979-1987 Elementary School in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Extracurricular activities | 1993-1994 UNICEF, Sarajevo Office, logistics officer, (organization of distribution of humanitarian food)
1996-1999 Club of Bosnian Students, Austria, member of a body of representation VIII. 2001 UNHCR and Council of Europe, Office in Sarajevo, facilitator and speaker at the Seminar of the “European Convention on Human Rights and the Return/Reintegration of Refugees & Internally Displaced Persons” X. 2001 European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (ITC) and Austrian Lawyer’s Chamber, facilitator and speaker at the training course for lawyers and judges from Bosnia and Herzegovina with regard to Human Rights and Democracy issues. XII. 2001 European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (ITC), speaker at the Seminar for lawyers and judges from Bosnia and Herzegovina: “Applicable Constitutional Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina” IX. 2006 UNDP, national expert, training for BH-State Court lawyers: “Support to the BH Court”, ECHR and the BH Constitutional Rights. XI. 2006 Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, lecturer „ECHR and Constitutional Rights and Freedoms“ VII. 2007 ABA ROLI, OSCE ODIHR, national expert, speaker „International Human Rights Norms Restricting Retroactive Application of Criminal Law and Their Interpretation in the Practice of International Tribunals” “ IX-XII. 2007 Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, expert, speaker „BH Constitution between the Individual and Collective Rights”, public debate in Foča, Bugojno, Livno, Doboj and Sarajevo. VIII. 2008 The Rule of Law Program South East Europe (RLP SEE) of the Konrad-Adenauer-Fondation, Summer School in Sarajevo for PhD students: “Rule of Law in Theory and Practice”, lecturer “Special Protection of Human Rights in Crisis Regions – the example of the Human Rights Chamber according to Annex 6 of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA)” and “The difference between law and politics, between judges and politicians” IV. 2009 Law Faculty in Banja Luka, lecturer, “Constitutional Human Rights in the Criminal Law through the Jurisprudence” V. 2009 European Regional Master’s Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe, Sarajevo, Cluster V, 2009 Mechanisms for Human Rights Protection, lecturer “Rule of Law and Access to Justice in the Context of Human Rights Protection” XI. 2011 Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Cadenabbia, Italy, introductory speech: „Efficient State vs. Equality of ethnicities? Priorities of Constitutional Reform Process “ 2012- Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Sarajevo, „Position of Croatian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, One-Year-Project, Project-Leader XI. 2011 2012 GIZ GmbH at al., Project “Förderung und Versöhnungprozesse in Bosnien und Herzegowina”; Project-leader 2012-2013 Council of Europe, Project “Development and Support of the “eb Portal on Human Rights and the Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, www.ustavnareforma.ba; Project-leader
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International Commitments and Activities
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VII. 2007 Council of Europe, Batumi, Georgia, expert opinion: „ Jurisdiction of Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Conflict Zones “
XI. 2011 Council of Europe, Ankara, Turkey, expert opinion within Joint Project on Enhancing the Role of the Supreme Judicial Authorities in respect of European Standards: “Filtering of Individual Applications to the Constitutional Court of Turkey” XI. 2012 OSCE Mission in Montenegro, “Expert support to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro”, 5 weeks capacity building assistance.
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Patents and publications | Book: „Constitutional Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Konrad Adenauer Foundation”(ed), Sarajevo, 2013, co-author with Prof. Dr. Joseph Marko and Ass. Prof. Dr. Goran Marković;
Codex: „Codex of Constitutional Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Konrad Adenauer Foundation”(ed), Sarajevo, 2013,editor. Contribution: „Importance and Methods of Interpretation through the Jurisprudence of the BH Constitutional Court”, Law Faculty of the University of Zenica (ed), November 2011. Article: “Critical review to the Position of the ‘Others’ within the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina through the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Court of Human Rights”, Faculty of Political Science of the University of Sarajevo (ed), Sarajevo (2010), p. 125-141 Article: “Law and Rights”: Constitutional Changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina – between the Necessity and Impossibility”, Agenda, Heinrich Böhl Stiftung (ed), Sarajevo (2010), no. 3, p. 9… Article: “The nature and implications of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in “Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Office of the European Academy Bozen in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Institute for Social Science Research (ed), 2010, p. 10-33 Commentary: Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (ed), Sarajevo, 2010, co-author with dr. iur. Christian Steiner et al. (Bosnian, English and German). Article: „Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Right to Liberty and Security of the Person through Relevant Case Law “,Review of Central and European Law (ed), Leiden (2007), Volume 32, p. 381-409. Contribution: „Sustainable Concepts or Lost Ways of the International Community“, Foundation Heinrich Böhl (ed), Sarajevo (2007), p. 78-83. Article: “Constituent People and Constitutional Amendments: Visa to Enter the Past”, Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina, Puls demokratije (ed.), July – August 2007, available on <www.pulsdemokratije.ba> Digest: „Decisions on Admissibility and Merits, Commission for Human Rights within the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina” (ed), Sarajevo (2006) (coauthor and editor). Article: „Lack of Understanding of the Concept of Constituent Peoples: An Obstacle to the Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Civil State”, published in “Dijalog”, Academy of Sciences and Art of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ed), Sarajevo (2006). Article: “European Social Charter in BiH – Forgotten Rights”, Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina, Puls demokratije (ed.), November-December 2006, available on <www.pulsdemokratije.ba> Article: „Certain Aspects of the Constitutional System of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Theory and Jurisprudence”, published in “Pravna misao”, no. 5-6 2006, Federal Ministry of Justice (ed), Sarajevo (2006), p. 55-68. Handbook: “Right to liberty and security of person – Article 5 of the European Convention for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms through Relevant Case-Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Strasbourg ”, Centar za promociju civilnog društva (ed), Sarajevo (2005). Article: “Moral – Reason for Limiting the Constitutional Freedom of Expression in BiH” – published in “Pravni savjetnik”, no. I/2004, Centar za promociju civilnog društva (ed.), Sarajevo (2004), p. 14-20. Contribution: “Kompetenzstreitigkeiten im Gefüge von Dayton“, published in: Bosnien und Herzegowina im Horizont Europas, Wofgang Graf Vitzthum, Ingo Winkelmann (ed.), Berlin 2003, p. 109-151; Article: „Just satisfaction and the European Court of Human Rights“, published in “Pravni savjetnik”, no. III/2003, Centar za promociju civilnog društva (ed.), Sarajevo (2003), p. 64-74. Article: “Position of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Dayton Agreement”, published in “Pravni savjetnik”, no. V/2002, Centar za promociju civilnog društva (ed.), Sarajevo (2002). Article: Exhaustion of Legal Remedies – Principle of the International Law incorporated in Legal System of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, published in “Pravni savjetnik”, no. VII/2001, Centar za promociju civilnog društva (ed.), Sarajevo (2001), p. 50-60 |
Languages | Bosnian – Mother tongue
English – reading, writing and speaking: V.G. German – reading, writing and speaking: V.G. French – reading, writing and speaking: good |
Computer skills | Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint |
References | Danelius, Hans, judge at the Supreme Court of Sweden and former judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hans.danelius@hdo.dom.se)
Marko, Joseph, professor at the University in Graz (Austria) and former judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (josef.marko@kfunigraz.ac.at) McBride, Jeremy, professor at the University of Birmingham (England), Head of the Institute of European Law *
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