Harun Išerić is a Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Sarajevo’s (UNSA) Faculty of Law. Harun holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Law from the UNSA, where he is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program, writing a thesis about the rule of courts in achieving environmental justice.
His research interests are rooted in constitutional and human rights law with a particular focus on the constitutional judiciary, ECHR, comparative administrative law & procedure, environmental law, elections and media. Harun is an alumnus of the Humanity in Action BiH and member of the Alumnus club of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS). He was awarded with German Marshall Fund of the USA ReThink.CEE fellowship 2022-2023, as a first Bosnian fellow. Also, in 2023 he was awarded with the European Parliament Sakharov Fellowship.
He passed a judicial examination before the Commission of the Ministry of Justice of BiH in 2022. He is co-founder of the Media Law School organized by the Faculty of Law Sarajevo, EU Delegation in BiH & OSCE. For three years (2018-2020) he was director of the Legal Clinic in Human Rights Law. Harun is actively cooperating with international and non-governmental organizations in BiH, including OSCE, CoE, National Democratic Institute, Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), GIZ, KAS, etc. Such cooperation includes delivering trainings & preparing policy briefs and papers.
He is dedicated to public service. State Central Election Commission appointed him to the Municipal Election Commission in Sarajevo for a seven year term (2023-2030). In January 2023 Harun was appointed to the Constitutional Affairs Council of the BiH Presidency member (Denis Becirovic). He was a member of the Complaints Commission of the Press and Online Media Council in BiH (2021-2025). In 2023 Harun was awarded by the Rector of UNSA for his scientific work. Since 2015 he has been the trainer of the Faculty of Law Sarajevo student team which participates in annual moot court competitions in human rights.
Following unprecedented legal moves toward the de facto secession of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) subnational units—Republika Srpska (RS)—the Constitutional Court of BiH (CC BiH / the Court) has annulled laws and policies it deemed to undermine state sovereignty and the supremacy of national judicial and security institutions within RS territory. However, the legal … →
