Institucija i profesija : sociološka analiza pravosuđa i pravosudnih profesija u Bosni i Hercegovini
The Institution and the Profession: Sociological Analysis of Judiciary and Judicial Professions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Samir Forić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Sociology, Politics and law, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Law
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: socio-legal research; sociology; law; social institution; institutionalisation; professionalisation; legal professions; judiciary; judicial professions; judges; prosecutors; attorneys at law; law and politics;
Summary/Abstract: The book represents a first socio-legal reseach in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and a first comprehensive study of judiciary and judicial professions from a sociological perspective in the region. The key issue addressed by the book is how law, as a social institutution, develops, maintains and manifests its institutional strength. The book explores the underlying processess and analyses their effects by focusing on social action and actors that comprise the legal, namely juridical field in the social universe. Theoretical part of the research, presented in the first chapter, focuses on the processes of institutionalisation and professionalisation of law. Historical overview of the judiciary and judicial professions along with analysis of the judicial reforms in post-Dayton BiH from a law and politics perspective is presented in the second chapter. Empirical part of the research, presented in third chapter, focuses on social position, internal structures and relationships between respective judicial professions (judges, prosecutors and attorneys at law) and was conducted as a survey based on the sample of 441 respondents. The narrow focus of the book is on the High Judicial and Proesecutorial Council (HJPC) BiH as a micro social institution of law, its own institutional strength in conjuction with its capability to maintain and enforce its institutional as socio-epistemological borders. HJPC is also analysed through the lens of the social agency, its action toward other political actors and national judicial community. It is also analysed as a professional institution serving as a form of professional organisation for the legal professsions of judges and prosecutors. The book also features analyses of the processes of Europeanisation of BiH judiciary, feminisation of legal professions, and incremental changes to the legal market for attorneys at law.

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