Lovro Šturm (19 May 1938 – 2 December 2021) was a Slovenian

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and

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. He was a law professor and served as the president and judge of the

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, the Minister of Education and Minister of Justice of Slovenia.

Biography

Šturm was born in

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, Slovenia (then part of the

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). After completing grammar school in Ljubljana, he enrolled at the

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at Ljubljana University. He completed his degree in 1961. After completing additional studies in

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and

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, he was awarded a diploma by the International Faculty of

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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

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, and between 1977 and 1988 at the

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. He was the author of twelve books and two hundred publications 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

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. During the first democratic elections in Slovenia in 1990, he was a member of the National Electoral Commission. Later that year he was elected a member of the

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of the 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 Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk (18 October 1943 – 16 August 2011) was a Slovene politician and economist. He served briefly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000, and was Minister of Finance in the centre-righ ...

. 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

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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 New Slovenia party, and also ran for Parliament on the party's list in the 2000 elections. He was a member of the Slovenian liberal conservative civic platform Rally for the Republic. In November 2011, he became its president, replacing Gregor Virant who had resigned previously that year. Šturm was a practicing

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and a member of the

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. He died in 2021. In 1965, he authored the book/manual "How to play Go " (Slovenian: "Kako se igra Go").

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

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Interview of Slovenia's former Justice Minister Dr Lovro Sturm
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