The German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation, the IRZ, in cooperation with the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, organised a Regional Online Conference of Constitutional Courts on the topic “Separate Opinions in Decisions of Constitutional Courts”, which was held on 11 December 2020.
The Conference was attended by the Presidents and Judges of the Constitutional Courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Montenegro, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of North Macedonia, the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Serbia, as well as by representatives and legal experts of the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation, the IRZ.
Zlatko M. Knežević, the President of the Constitutional Court, and Dr Stefan Pürner, Attorney at Law, the IRZ, the Head of South-East Europe Division, opened this year’s Conference and gave a welcome speech.
The Conference, along with the numerous quality presentations/papers on the topic of the Conference and discussions, highlighted the issue of separate opinions in constitutional jurisprudence in the countries of the region. In this regard, the Conference represents another significant contribution to the legal practice and doctrine of the constitutional courts in the region.