Presentation of the journal
Slovenian Law Review was first published in 2004. The year of its naissance coincided with the accession of Slovenia to the European Union, but the latter should not be seen as the only progenitor of either the review itself or of the inclusion of Slovenian law into the international legal community. Being part of a broader community has always been one of the qualities of the Slovenian law and its protagonists. Until the foundation of a Slovenian university in 1919, Slovenian lawyers studied at different foreign universities – individually or in groups, their names can be found in the matrices of the various European universities, in particular in Central Europe and Italy. When returning home, they brought with them not only legal knowledge but also proficiency in foreign languages and especially a much broader horizon than one could attain in the small country on the sunny side of the Alps.
The territory of the present-day Slovenia has thus never been far from the mainstream European legal developments, and an essential feature of its legal curriculum has always been comparative law. At the same time, however, the Slovenian legal system has also developed and, although shaped and limited by the wider importance of the Slovenian economy or state, having proper insight into the Slovenian legal system and thought is also becoming ever more important for the lawyers abroad.
It is in this dual spirit that Slovenian Law Review has been conceived and launched – to offer its international readers a better insight into the legal development in Slovenia and to promote the tradition of comparative law that has been so central to the Slovenian as well as to the wider international legal community.