Professor Emeritus Ljubo Bavcon, PhD (1924–2021) strongly imprinted our time as a university teacher, a renowned researcher in Slovenia and abroad, a committed public intellectual who responded independently and originally to his time and conditions in it. A man who has always advocated respect for human rights, introduced the concept and meaning of these rights into the Slovenian legal and broader social space and significantly contributed to its implementation. He was a staunch opponent of the death penalty and made this public 50 years ago. Undoubtedly, it is mainly due to him that no death sentences were carried out in Slovenia after 1957.

Key words: obituary, Ljubo Bavcon, criminal law, criminology, death penalty.

Jože Mencinger was a man with a capital letter: prudent, respectful, kind. As a public intellectual, he presented himself in public with firm and clear posi- tions; he could tell the truth as it is in a precise but conciliatory way, always focused on the matter, not the person. His views were professionally impec- cable and entirely honest. Professional or political opportunism was foreign and unacceptable to him. We will miss his weighty words, his gentle irony, his firmness, uprightness and honesty.

Key words: obituary, in memoriam, Jože Mencinger, economy, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law, dean.