President Borut Pahor nominated law professor Janez Kranjc, an associate member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), for a vacancy on the Constitutional Court.
Pahor’s office described Kranjc as a highly esteemed law expert both at home and abroad. A professor at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Maribor, Kranjc has served three times as the dean of the Ljubljana Faculty of Law and chaired the European Law Faculties Association. He has won top state decorations in Slovenia, France and Austria and honorary PhDs from foreign universities.
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