The University of Sarajevo Faculty of Law ( bs, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu), also known as the Sarajevo Law School, is one of the leading schools of the

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the larges ...

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. The school is located in

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's downtown district next to the

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and not far from

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, the city's historical and cultural center.

History

The Sarajevo Law School was founded through a legal act on 20 August 1946 and it became the first member of the University of Sarajevo. Mehmed Begović, Distinguished Research Professor at the

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specializing in Yugoslav

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law was the driving power for establishing the school's program and organization (along with Gorazd Kušej from

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and Pavao Rastovčan from

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). Russian lawyer and historian Alexander Soloviev served as the first Dean of the Sarajevo Law School from 1947 to 1949.

Organization

The law school is divided into five chairs: * Chair of State and International Public Law; * Chair of Legal-Economic Sciences; * Chair of Civil Law; * Chair of Legal History and Comparative Law; * Chair of Criminal Law.

Degree programs

The Bachelor's program lasts four years carrying 240 ECTS credits. Degree of Graduate lawyer was also offered for those who enrolled before the Bologna reform.

References

External links

Sarajevo Law School website
(in Bosnian, English) {{Authority control University of Sarajevo Law schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Educational institutions established in 1946 1946 establishments in Yugoslavia