Seada Palavrić (born 10 November 1954 in

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) is a Bosnian

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and

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, member of the

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/ref> She declared ethnic affiliation as

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Biography

Palavrić graduated from the Sarajevo Law School in 1984 and passed the bar exam in 1995. In the 1980s, Palavrić worked as legal consultant for the Thermoelectric Power Plant Tuzla. From 1993 to 2002, she was appointed District Labour Inspector and a Secretary of the Tuzla District Assembly. In 1994, she chaired the establishing committee of the Tuzla-Podrinje Canton as the first canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1994 to 2002 she was Secretary of the cantonal assembly and the served as cantonal public attorney. She also held the position of Assistant to the Minister of Justice of the

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and of liaison officer of the Federation entity government to the Human Rights Commission for Bosnia and Herzegovina and

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. From 1996 to 2002, Palavrić was elected to the Federation entity's

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and from 2002 to 2005 to the State-level

. She was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and from 2001, she was vice president of the Bosniak

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(SDA). On 6 December 2005, she was appointed by the Federation entity parliament as a judge of the

. In 2008, she was selected by her colleagues to serve as President of the court for a term. From 2009 to 2015 she also served as vice-president. Palavrić was a member of the expert team involved in the Dobrinja Arbitration in accordance with the Decision of the

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, and a member of the High Representative’s Commission for Amendments to the

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, established after the adoption of the Constitutional Court’s decision on the constituent peoples. She has published numerous professional articles in ''Pravni savjetnik'', issued by the Civil Society Promotion Centre. Palavrić currently holds the position of President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina - CV
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