Jasna Omejec
| Jasna Omejec | |
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| President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia | |
| Assumed office 12 June 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Petar Klarić |
| Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia | |
| Assumed office 7 December 1999 |
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| Born | 1962 Osijek, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb University of Osijek |
Jasna Omejec (born 1962[1]) is a Croatian lawyer, judge, university professor and politician who serves as the 4th President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia.[2]
She graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, in 1985 and gained her PhD in administrative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1994.[3]
In 1986 Omejec started to work as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, and in 1990 transferred to the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, first as an assistant lecturer, then as senior lecturer, associate professor, and finally full professor at the Department of Administrative Law. At Zagreb, she was a post-graduate lecturer in administrative and political sciences.
In year 1999 she became a member of the Constitutional Court of Croatia.
Controversies during appointment[edit]
The Law on the Constitutional Court which was valid at the time of her 1st appointment stipulated that the Judge of the Constitutional Court must have at least 15 years of work experience in the field of law, while Omejec had only 12. Croatian Parliament changed the The Law and determined that the Judge of the Constitutional court can have12 years of service only if he holds PhD in law. Thanks to these changes Omejec was appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court in 1999. This behavior of the Parliament has been havely criticized by many including Đurđa Adlešić and Željko Jovanović.[4]
On June 12, 2008 she became President of the Constitutional Court. The first female to hold that position in its history. Her second four-year term as a member and a President of the Court started on June 12, 2012.
Other[edit]
She is a member-founder of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences since 2001.
She was a longtime member of the Liberal Party.
She is the author of many scientific works among which Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the practice of the European Court of Human Rights stands out.[5]
Omejec's curriculum vitae includes:
Authorship
- Co-authoring the first Croatian textbook on environmental law in 1997
- Authoring "The Council of Europe and the European Union: Institutional and Legal Framework", in 2008.
- Authoring several papers and articles in the fields of real estate law, citizenship rights, intergovernmental relations between the federal and local Croatian self-government, and electoral law.
- Co-authoring several compendia on constitutional court practice.
Organization Membership
- Croatian lead member of the Statelessness/Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia Project, a part of the UNHCR, in Geneva in 1995.
- Member of the Croatian Government Commission for equality issues in 1998.
- Founder-member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences.
- Member of the Institute for Public Administration in Zagreb.
- Substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) from the Republic of Croatia in 2005; was re-appointed in 2009, and in 2010 was elected a member of the Commission.
- Lecturer in the post-graduate doctoral studies "Public Law and Public Administration", "Administrative Law - National and European Aspect" and "Post-graduate Specialised University Studies of Public Administration" at Zagreb University.
- Post-graduate guest-lecturer in Civil Law at the Faculty of Law; in European Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences; and in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, all at Zagreb University.
- Organizer, lecturer and participant at numerous scientific and professional domestic and international conferences, seminars, and symposiums.
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.usud.hr/default.aspx?Show=suci
- ^ "Curriculum vitae". venice.coe.int accessdate = 2015-04-21. Venice Commission.
- ^ http://www.vecernji.hr/biografije/jasna-omejec-566
- ^ http://www.vecernji.hr/biografije/jasna-omejec-566
- ^ http://novi-informator.net/izdanja/konvencija-za-za%C5%A1titu-ljudskih-prava-i-temeljnih-sloboda-u-praksi-europskog-suda-za-ljudska
