Mato Tadić
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Mato Tadić is a current Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was born in Brčko on 15 August 1952. After completing primary and secondary education, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo. After graduation, he began his career with the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brčko, first as a law-clerk and, after passing 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 leaves 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 of 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.
He 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 taken part as a legal expert in various international conferences on with Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the conference held in Dayton, USA.
