In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Nerimana Traljić
Prof. Dr. Nerimana Traljić was born in Sarajevo, where she finished elementary school and high school. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo in 1959 and passed the judges’ bar exam. In March 1962, she was selected as an assistant for the subject Family Law. She obtained a master's degree in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo in 1970, defending her master's thesis entitled “Taking children away from their parents and depriving them of parental rights.” In May 1974, she received her doctorate from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, defending her doctoral dissertation on “Legal Consequences of Divorce”. She spent her working life at the Sarajevo Faculty of Law from 1962 to 2005, crossing the academic path from assistant to full professor. As an author and co-author, she has published 5 books and more than 40 scientific and professional papers.
As the most competent author in the field of family law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Professor Traljić enriched the domestic literature of family law with published textbooks and scientific papers, and by engaging and actively participating in a large number of symposia, scientific gatherings and seminars the most important and current issues in the field of family and family relations. As a member of the Commission for the Adoption of Family Laws of SR BiH and FBiH, she made an immeasurable contribution to the construction of the domestic legal system and the reform of family law.
Her scientific, professional, pedagogical and teaching engagement was not only at the home faculty but also in the departments/centers, i.e., after their independence, at the Law Faculties in Mostar, Banja Luka, Tuzla and Zenica. In her teaching work, she made a special effort working in impossible conditions during the period of aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
An excerpt from the Report of the Commission for the Election of Professor Traljić to the title of full professor speaks best of her contribution to the development of legal thought and practice in our region: “Prof. N. Traljić always reacted in a timely manner to all acute and complex events in the family, both in peace and in war. She approached their solution not only from a legal point of view, but always looked at them, especially the problems of women and children, and from a universal point of view, which gives her scientific work a special human dimension. Thanks to the broad legal culture, Professor Traljić managed to make all the achievements of legal science in this field accessible to our legal literature and, at the same time, in search of new solutions, especially in the field of legislation, to always suggest solutions that will help people in today's complex conditions. ”
