Author: Maja Sahadžić

Maja Sahadžić is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Utrecht University’s School of Law and Researcher at the Montaigne Center for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp, Senior Research Fellow at the Law Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), and Affiliated Scholar at CUHK. She co-chairs the ICON-S Committee on New Directions in Scholarship.

She has been a visiting researcher at leading institutions, including the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, The University of Hong Kong, MGIMO University, and Victoria University of Wellington, and remains a leading expert on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional system and Balkan politics. She has advised diplomatic missions and organizations such as the UN, UNDP, USAID, SDC, and the Flemish Parliament.

Her book Asymmetry, Multinationalism and Constitutional Law (Routledge) was nominated for the 2020 Book of the Year in Constitutionalism and listed among the top federalism books of 2020. In 2018, she received the Ronald Watts Award for her article on constitutional asymmetries and the Middle East peace process.