Jože Mencinger
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Jože Mencinger (5 March 1941 – 26 August 2022) was a Slovenian lawyer, economist, and politician.
Mencinger was born in Jesenice, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After finishing the study of law at the University of Ljubljana in 1964, he obtained an MA at the University of Belgrade's Law School in 1966. He obtained his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.
In May 1990, he was appointed
In 1992, he became a member of the
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he came back to the public life as a strong critic of Slovenia's membership in the
Between 2001 and 2005, he served as rector of the University of Ljubljana. Mencinger was also a member of the Slovenian National Council for 5 years.
He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and received the Golden Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia. He also commented on the experience of privatization in Slovenia during the post-communist era.[1]
Mencinger appeared in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains, where he talked about the effects of Slovenia joining the European Union.
In 2014, he was chosen to head the Positive Slovenia's list of candidates to the European Parliament.[2]