Professor Emeritus Ljubo Bavcon, PhD (1924–2021)
Pravnik, Ljubljana 2021, Vol. 76 (138), No. 3-4
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.