Ludvik Toplak (born July 13, 1942) is a

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and academic administrator, and former

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, and member of the

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. He is vice-president of the

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and former rector of the

University of Maribor The University of Maribor ( sl, Univerza v Mariboru) is Slovenia's second-largest university, established in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia. It currently has 17 faculties. History The university's roots reach back to 1859, when a theological semin ...

. He is a member of the

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.Prof. Dr. Ludvik Toplak.
European Academy of Science. Retrieved 26 August 2011. Toplak taught at the University of Maribor Faculty of Law since 1973. In 1974 he received LL.M. from

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and in 1980 he received PhD. His post-doctoral research was done at various universities and institutions worldwide, including

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, New York. Between 1980 and 1987 he was Vice-President of Iskra Delta Computers corporation. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was active in the democratization and independence movement in Slovenia add was a signatory of the declaration of independence of Slovenia from post-Tito Yugoslavia. He was member of the pro-democracy coalition Demos and of Slovenian People's Party. In 1990 he was elected to the Slovenian Parliament and during Slovenia's independence he served as the speaker of the Socio-Political Chamber of the Slovenian Parliament. In 1992 he was reelected to the Parliament, but resigned in 1993 after being elected a rector of the

. From 2002 to 2006 he was an Ambassador to the Vatican. After serving as speaker of the Socio-Political Chamber of the Slovenian Parliament (1999–1992), as a member of the Parliament (1992–1993), as a rector of the

(1993–2002), and as an Ambassador to the

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(2002–2006), he is currently the vice-president of

international university and president of its Slovenian campus called Alma Mater Europaea - Evropski center, Maribor. Ludvik Toplak served as a member of the presidency of the European Rectors' Conference and as a president of the Danube Rectors' Conference. He also served as a governor of the

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in Slovenia. In 2000 he was awarded the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Science award. Ludvik Toplak is a father of the law professor

Jurij Toplak Jurij Toplak (born 1977) is a constitutional scholar, university administrator, election law, and human rights expert. He is a recurring visiting professor at the Fordham University School of Law in New York. From 2016 to 2022 he served as the p ...

and the lawyer Barbara Toplak.

References

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