Miodrag Simović

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Miodrag Simović (born 3 November 1952 in Foča) is a Bosnian judge and professor. He serves as a member of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and has identified as a Bosnian Serb.

Education and early career: He earned a law degree with honours from the University of Novi Sad, a master’s in criminal law in 1981, and a PhD in 1985. He worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in the Ministry of Justice and Administration of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1991 to 1993 he was Vice-President of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Judicial career: From 1998 to 2003 he was a judge on the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska. In May 2003 he was appointed judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Republika Srpska National Assembly and served twice as its vice president. He became Vice-President of the BiH Constitutional Court by the end of May 2003 and was reappointed in May 2006. He wrote a dissent in the Decision U-5/09 on general principles of international law.

Academic work: He is a full professor of Law at the University of Banja Luka, where he leads the criminal procedure law clinic. He also teaches criminal procedural law at the University of Bihać and the University of East Sarajevo. He sits on the editorial boards of several journals and is editor-in-chief for Bosnia and Herzegovina of the Izbor sudske prakse review.

Publications and honors: He has published over 450 works, including 22 books as author and 43 as co-author. He became an international member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2011, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2012 (presidency since 2014), and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2014. He is also involved with the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Republika Srpska and the Presidency of the Association of Lawyers of Republika Srpska.