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  • Casper Vanspauwen

Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina [GC]: Strasbourg’s uneasy path towards constitutional pluralism

October 28, 2025

by Casper Vanspauwen In Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (2025), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) was called upon to rule once again on the compatibility of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009), the Court had already […]

  • Benjamin Nurkić

Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina: the complete guidelines for the constitutional reform in B&H

September 12, 2023

by Benjamin Nurkić In the recently announced judgment in the case of Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found a violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 regarding the complaint about the composition of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of B&H, and regarding […]