Perils from Within and Without - The Constitutional Court of BiH Under Pressure

Perils from Within and Without - The Constitutional Court of BiH Under Pressure Išerić, Harun Author aut Sahadžić, Maja Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-07-27 eng The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is described as one of the few success stories of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA). In contrast to the state-level legislature, the Court’s decision-making process in principle cannot be vetoed. Voting rules do not condition the presence of all three ethnic groups. This has made it difficult for Republika Srpska’s (RS) political leadership to block, boycott or undermine the work of the Court compared to other state-level institutions. However, recent months saw the RS identifying and seizing a rare moment of vulnerability with potentially severe consequences. If RS does not elect new judges in the meantime, not even a Court’s small chamber will be able to operate. CC BY-SA 4.0 Išerić, Harun Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitutional Court Ethnic Power-sharing High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/perils-from-within-and-without/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230727-132151-0 230727 10.17176/20230727-132151-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)