Delegation of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina led by Vice-President Galić took part in the work of the Balkan Constitutional Courts Forum held in Priština, Kosovo, from 23 to 25 October 2024. This year’s Forum was organized by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo. The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a member of the Forum and participated in its work as an observer.
The topic of this year’s Forum was Evolutions in Contemporary Constitutional Justice: The Example of the Balkan Region. The Forum worked in two sessions: Session I: Constitutional Courts as Guardians of Democratic Values and Principles: Balancing Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Powers in Modern States, and Session II: The Impact of Supranational Courts’ Jurisprudence in Shaping Local Constitutional Contexts. Within the Forum’s first Session Vice-President Galić presented her paper entitled The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Guardian of Democratic Values and Principles.
At the Forum, Vice-President Galić met with presidents, vice-presidents and judges of the Constitutional Courts and highest courts of the Balkan region, as well as the Vice-President of the Venice Commission, judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union, representative of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and international legal experts who participated in the work of the Forum, with whom she exchanged opinions on the Forum’s topic and other current issues of constitutional justice.
