Lovro Šturm

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Šturm in 2004

Lovro Šturm (19 May 1938 – 2 December 2021) was a Slovenian jurist and politician. He was a law professor and served as the president and judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, the Minister of Education and Minister of Justice of Slovenia.[1]

Biography

Šturm was born in

Comparative Law
in 1963.

He headed the Public Administration Institute of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Šturm was the President of the Council of the Public Administration Institute. Between 1976 and 1976, he worked as a legal advisor of the OECD, and between 1977 and 1988 at the United Nations.

He was the author of twelve books and two hundred publications[2][3] and was an expert in the field of administrative–legal sciences. His work has been part of twenty-two group research projects. His scientific contributions examine the operation of administration, constitutional and judiciary protection of human rights.

During the first

Republic of Slovenia, serving as its president between 1997 and 1998. In 2000, he was appointed Minister of Education in the short-lived conservative government of Andrej Bajuk. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as Minister of Justice in the center right government of Janez Janša. During this period, he initiated several reforms of the judicial system, including a simplification of the judiciary administrative procedures, a radical reduction of notary
fees, and a reform aimed at shortening the legal procedures in the courts. He also formed and headed a bilateral commission for the restitution of Jewish property confiscated during the Nazi occupation of Slovenia and never returned to the owners by the Yugoslav Communist regime.

Šturm was not a member of any political party, but he was considered close to the

liberal conservative civic platform Rally for the Republic. In November 2011, he became its president, replacing Gregor Virant who had resigned previously that year.[4]

Šturm was a practicing

Roman Catholic and a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[5] He died in 2021.[6][7]

In 1965, he authored the book/manual "How to play Go " (Slovenian: "Kako se igra Go").[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ UKOM. "EU2008.si – Ministry of Justice". eu2008.si.
  2. ^ "Church-State Relations and the Legal Status of Religious Communities in Slovenia International Law and Religion Symposium 2004 Brigham Young University Law Review 2004". heinonline.org.
  3. ^ "European Standards of Electoral Law in Contemporary Constitutionalism". Council of Europe. 1 January 2005 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Zbor za republiko z novim predsednikom Lovrom Šturmom" [Rally for the Republic with the New President Lovro Šturm] (in Slovenian). delo.si. 18 November 2011.
  5. ^ rtvslo.si Interview: Dr. Lovro Sturm Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Umrl je Lovro Šturm". 24ur.com. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Umrl je Lovro Šturm". Siol.net. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  8. ^ Jambrek, Peter (2018). "Neodvisna in kritičnemu intelektualnemu diskurzu zavezana revija". Dignitas.

Notes

Lovro Sturm – Minister of Justice (The Council Presidency/The Slovenian Government)

External links

Media related to Lovro Šturm at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Justice
2004–2008 		Succeeded by
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