Damjan Korošec

Damjan Korošec is a full professor of criminal law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (since 2010); he has also taught criminal law at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor and criminal law terminology for translators and interpreters at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. He has occasionally collaborated in research with the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. At the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, in cooperation with academic prof. dr. dr. h.c. mult. Janez Kranjc as a lecturer, he is developing the course Foreign Legal Terminology - German.

His research interests include the general concept of crime, the system of the special part of substantive criminal law, medical and sexual criminal law, and international criminal law. His work includes extensive elements of comparative law. He has conducted research in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, and lectured and taught in Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Serbia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia. In 2003 and 2004 he was awarded a research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has received several fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany). 

He is the author, co-author or co-editor of numerous monographs, including the co-editor and co-author of the Great Scientific Commentary on the Special Part of the KZ-1 in several editions (Uradni list and the Faculty of Law Publishing House, University of Ljubljana), the author of the textbook Medical Criminal Law (last edition 2016), the main author of the monograph Sexual Criminal Law (2024).

As a student, he received a scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Technology for a two-month research project at the University of Vienna (1992) and the Prešeren Prize of the University of Ljubljana for outstanding research achievements (1993, co-authored with Katja Škrubej). He passed the state bar exam in 1995 and has been a member of the Medical Ethics Commission of the Republic of Slovenia (Komisija za medicinsko etiko Republike Slovenije) since 2005. 

He has been a mentor to two young researchers, several award-winning students (Dr. Uroš Seljak Prize of the University of Ljubljana, Prešeren Prize of the University of Ljubljana, awards and prizes of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana) and several PhD students in the field of substantive criminal law.