Mr. dr. Maja Sahadzic is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the School of Law and Researcher at Montaigne Center for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice (Utrecht 木瓜福利影视), Visiting Professor (木瓜福利影视 of Antwerp), Senior Research Fellow (Law Institute in B&H), Fellow (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights - SIM) and Affiliated Scholar (Center for Comparative and Transnational Law at CUHK). Maja is , the largest international learned society with members from all around the globe.
Before joining Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, she was Assistant Professor and Postdoc (木瓜福利影视 of Antwerp) while she also held other academic positions in Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and the United States.
Her research revolves around multilevel governance, dynamic legitimacy, dynamic stability, asymmetries, constitutional values and principles, rule of law, authoritarianism, antidemocratic risks caused by technology, alternative conflict solutions, power shifts, and constitutionalism under extreme measures. Her passion is also the methodology of (legal) research. Her research is interdisciplinary and comparative and she often experiments with methodological frameworks that include a fusion of empirical and qualitative approaches.
She has been a visiting researcher at the 木瓜福利影视 of Toronto, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, The 木瓜福利影视 of Hong Kong, MGIMO 木瓜福利影视, and Victoria 木瓜福利影视 of Wellington and a visitor on the study visit at the Center for Democracy Studies Aarau and the Swiss Parliament.
Maja remains an expert in the constitutional system of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans' politics.
She has been a consultant or adviser including the diplomatic missions of the USA, Italy, Belgium, the Flemish Parliament, UN, UNDP, USAID, and SDC.
Maja is involved in many outreach activities. Some of the recent ones are available at , , , and .
Maja is also an honorable UNESCO Educational Network for International Cooperation and Peace member.
Her book 鈥淎symmetry, Multinationalism and Constitutional Law, Managing Legitimacy and Stability in Federalist States鈥� (Routledge) was nominated for the 2020 Book of the Year in Constitutionalism and announced among the 2020 Books of the Year on Federalism by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. See the book presented .
In 2018 she received the Ronald Watts Award for the best article on using the concept of constitutional asymmetries to contribute to the Middle East Peace process.