Prof. Dr. LARISA VELIĆ
Judge
Larisa Velić was born in 1973 in Sarajevo, where she completed her primary and secondary education. In April 2000, she graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (Germany) and passed the First State Examination. She was subsequently appointed as a legal trainee (Referendarin) at the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf (Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf).
In 2003, she passed the Second State Examination before the Examination Commission of the Ministry of Justice of the federal state of North Rhine–Westphalia (das Ministerium der Justiz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen). She then practiced as a lawyer for the following eight years, working in several law firms in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Wuppertal.
She earned her PhD degree at the Ruhr Universität Bochum in 2011.
From 2003 to 2011, she worked as a legal expert at the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) in Sarajevo, within the framework of the Land Administration Project. Her responsibilities included the drafting and implementation of legislation on land registers, property rights, cadastre, and other relevant legal instruments.
Since 2004, the Centre for Judicial and Prosecutorial Training of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, as well as numerous international and domestic organisations, have engaged her as a legal trainer on various subjects in the field of civil law.
From 2011 to 2018, she served as Deputy Project Leader of the project Support to the Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina, implemented within the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she collaborated with judicial institutions from Switzerland.
Larisa Velić is a full professor specialising in civil law. She began her academic career at the Faculty of Law, University of Zenica, in 2013. In 2021, she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law and Chair of the Senate of the University of Zenica and performed her duties up until her appointment as Judge of the Constitutional Court.
She is the author of numerous scholarly papers and books, including Pravo građenja (Building Right), Tort Law, Praktikum za stvarna prava (Practical Guide to Property Law), and Das Erbbaurecht in Bosnien-Herzegowina im Vergleich zum Erbbaurecht in Deutschland (The Building Right in Bosnia and Herzegovina Compared to the Building Right in Germany), as well as commentaries such as Komentar Zakona o zemljišnim knjigama u BiH (Commentary on the Law on Land Registers in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Komentar Zakona o stvarnim pravima Federacije BiH (Commentary on the Law on Property Rights of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Komentar Zakona o stvarnim pravima Republike Srpske (Commentary on the Law on Property Rights of the Republika Srpska). She was awarded the Charter of the Rectors’ Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She assumed office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2025.
