Mato Tadić

Mato Tadić (born 15 August 1952 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a current judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After completing primary and secondary education, Tadić enrolled the Sarajevo Law School. After graduation, he began his career with the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brčko, first as a law-clerk and, after passing the bar exam in 1978, as the deputy public prosecutor and then the public prosecutor. In 1991, he was appointed the republic deputy public prosecutor for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He remained in that position until the outbreak of war. During the war, he remained shortly on the Brčko front and then in 1993 he moved to Orašje. At the beginning of 1994, he left for Mostar and afterward to Sarajevo where he served as minister of justice within the government of the republic and then the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He remained in that position until the end of 1998. In June 1999, he was appointed as a member (judge) of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in 2003, he was elected both vice-president of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina and president of Panel II of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2002, he was appointed judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From May 2003 through to June 2006, he served as the president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Tadić has published various texts on criminal and constitutional law, administration and local self-government, and topics relating to the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. He has also taken part as a legal expert in various international conferences on with Bosnia and Herzegovina.