Sejla Imamovic (S.)

• European Human Rights Law
• European and Comparative Constitutional Law

Šejla Imamović is Assistant Professor of European Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, having previously worked as a teaching fellow at University College Maastricht and as a PhD researcher and lecturer at Maastricht University and Hasselt University, Belgium.

Šejla holds a Ph.D in European Law from Maastricht University. She also holds a Bachelor Degree in Liberal Arts from University College Maastricht (honours) and an LL.M. in European Law from Maastricht University (cum laude).

Šejla's main research interest is fundamental rights law of the European Union, with a particular focus on its relation with the European Convention on Human Rights and national law. Her publications appeared in leading journals such as European Law Review and the European Journal of Human Rights. Her first monograph entitled ‘The Architecture of Fundamental Rights in the European Union’ has been published by Hart Publishing (2022). Šejla is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law, the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht and a member of the Ius Commune Research School. 

Šejla currently coordinates the course European Human Rights and acts as a guest lecturer in several other courses including Constitutional Law, European and National Constitutional Law and European Fundamental Rights Law. Šejla has been coaching students for the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition (formerly known as the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition) for several years and last academic year Maastricht University team won the competition.