The Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo (), also known as the Sarajevo Law School, is one of the leading schools of the

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo (Bosnian language, Bosnian, Croatian language, Croatian and Serbian language, Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a List of universities in Bo ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

. The school is located in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

's downtown district next to the Latin Bridge and not far from

Baščaršija Baščaršija (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic: Башчаршија; ) is Sarajevo's old bazaar and the historical and cultural center of the city. Baščaršija was built in the 15th century when Isa-beg Ishaković founded the city. Bašča ...

, the city's historical and cultural center.

History

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The Sarajevo Law School was founded through a legal act on 20 August 1946 and it became the first member of the

. Mehmed Begović, a distinguished research professor at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

Faculty of Law A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, sc ...

specializing in Yugoslav

Sharia Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on Islamic holy books, scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran, Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' ...

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

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

). 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 A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ( ...

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

Notable people

Alumni

Alija Izetbegović Alija Izetbegović (; 8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosopher and author, who in 1992 became the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, president of the Presidency ...

, first chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Benjamina Karić, current mayor of Sarajevo *

Bisera Turković Bisera Turković (; born 8 December 1954) is a Bosnian diplomat and politician who served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023. She was the first female foreign minister of Bosnia ...

, former foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Hatidža Hadžiosmanović Hatidža Hadžiosmanović (19 August 1938 – 23 December 2015) was a Bosnian judge, member and president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Biography Born in Sarajevo, Hadžiosmanović graduated from the Sarajevo Law Scho ...

, former president of the

Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Ustavni sud Bosne i Hercegovine, Уставни суд Босне и Херцеговине) is the interpreter and guardian of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It ...

Jasmin Imamović Jasmin Imamović (born 8 October 1957) is a Bosnian politician and writer serving as member of the national House of Representatives since 2022. He previously served as the 31st mayor of Tuzla from 2001 to 2022. Imamović is a member of the So ...

, former mayor of

Tuzla Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...

Krešimir Zubak Krešimir Zubak (; born 25 January 1947) is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 1st Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1996 to 1998. At the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992, he joined the Croatian Democ ...

, former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Mario Nenadić Mario Nenadić (born 25 March 1964) is a Bosnian politician who served as Premier of Sarajevo Canton from 2020 to 2021. He is a member of the Union for a Better Future. Early life and education Nenadić was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herz ...

, former Premier of

Sarajevo Canton The Sarajevo Canton, officially the Canton of Sarajevo (; ; ), is one of the ten cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its cantonal seat is the city of Sarajevo, also the capital city of Bosnia and Herzeg ...

Mato Tadić Mato Tadić (born 15 August 1952 in Vuksic, Brčko) is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He declared ethnic affiliation as a Bosnian Croat. Biography Tadić graduated from the Sarajevo Law School and began h ...

, former president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Radmila Hrustanović Radmila Hrustanović ( sr-Cyrl, Радмила Хрустановић, or ; born 25 November 1952 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian politician. Biography She finished primary and high schools in Belgrade and went on to graduate from the Univ ...

, former mayor of

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

Safet Isović Safet Isović (8 January 1936 – 2 September 2007) was a Bosnian singer who performed the Bosnian traditional music sevdalinka. Early life and family Isović was born into a Bosniak family in Bileća, located in the Herzegovina region of mode ...

, prominent Bosnian sevdalinka singer * Seada Palavrić, member of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Semiha Borovac, former mayor of

* Sulejman Tihić, former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Šefik Džaferović, former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Valerija Galić, president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Željko Komšić Željko Komšić (; born 20 January 1964) is a Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Croat politician serving as the List of Croat members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 6th and current Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia a ...

, member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faculty

Mirko Šarović Mirko Šarović ( sr-cyrl, Мирко Шаровић; born 16 September 1956) is a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb politician who served as the List of Serb members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3rd Serb member of the ...

, former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Sredoje Nović, former minister of Civil Affairs and director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency *

Vojislav Šešelj Vojislav Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шешељ, ; born 11 October 1954) is a Serbian politician and convicted war criminal. He is the founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Between 1998 and 2000, he was a D ...

, former deputy Prime Minister of Serbia * Zdravko Grebo, author and law professor

References

External links

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

Universities and colleges established in 1946 1946 establishments in Yugoslavia