Miodrag Simović

Miodrag Simović is a current Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He was born in Foča on 3 November 1952. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad as one of the best students. In 1981, he obtained his master’s degree after completion of postgraduate studies in criminal law in Novi Sad. He defended his doctor’s dissertation at the same faculty in 1985. After completing his law studies he worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the SRBiH and in the Ministry of Justice and Administration of the SRBiH. From 30 January 1991 until 25 October 1993 he was holding the office of the Vice-President of the Government of the SRBiH and the Republic of BiH.

He was elected the Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republika Srpska on 24 December 1998 and held the office until 13 May 2003 when he was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of BiH. He is appointed Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the end of May 2003 and reappointed in May 2006. He is a regular professor at the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka and at the Faculty of Law in Bihać where he teaches Criminal Procedural Law. He is the member of the Legal Sciences Board of the Department for Social Sciences of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Republika Srpska and the Head of the Criminal Procedural Law Clinic at the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka. He is the Member of the Presidency of the Association of Lawyers of the Republika Srpska and the Member of the Editorial Board in six magazines. Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Izbor sudske prakse" from Belgrade for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He presented over 400 works to the scientific and professional community.

Bibliography

• Criminal Procedural Law of the Republika Srpska, (two editions) Banja Luka, 1997 and 1998
• Criminal Procedural Law, Istočno Sarajevo, 2001
• Criminal Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Banja Luka 2003
• Criminal Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina - collection of criminal procedural laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina with introductory comments and terminology register, Sarajevo, 2004
• Practical Commentary on the Law on Criminal Procedure of the RS, Banja Luka, 2005
• Criminal Procedural Law – introduction and general part, Bihać, 2005
• Criminal Procedural Law - special part, Banja Luka, 2006

External links

• Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina