Constitutional Court of Slovenia

The Constitutional Court of Slovenia (in Slovene: Ustavno sodišče Republike Slovenije, US RS) is a special court established by the Slovenian Constitution. Since its inception, the Court has been located in the city of Ljubljana.

Seat of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia

Jurisdiction

Most powers of the Constitutional Court are explicitly determined by the Constitution. In accordance with the Constitution, the Constitutional Court decides in particular on the conformity of laws (and other statutory instruments) with the Constitution (and with laws, respectively), on constitutional complaints of violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms by individual acts, on jurisdictional disputes between various state actors, on the unconstitutionality of the acts and activities of political parties, on appeals against a decision of the National Assembly regarding the confirmation of the election of deputies, on the accountability of the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, and ministers, as well as on the conformity of a treaty with the Constitution in the process of ratifying the treaty.

Under the Constitution, other matters may also be vested in the Constitutional Court by law. In accordance with this provision the Constitutional Court decides, inter alia, on appeals against a National Assembly decision on the election of Slovenian members to the European Parliament, on the admissibility of a National Assembly decision not to call a referendum on the confirmation of constitutional amendments, or on a request of the National Assembly to review the constitutionality of possible consequences of the suspension of the implementation of a law or due to a law not being adopted in a referendum.

Procedures

The Constitutional Court has several strictly defined procedures in which cases may be brought before it.

Landmark decisions

• Tito street decision, U-I-109/10 of 3 October 2011.

Judges of the Court

#	Judge		Term			Generation	Nominated by	Other positions	[1]
1		Dr. Janez Šinkovec (1928-2016)	25 June 1991	8 January 1998	6 years, 197 days	1st	President Milan Kučan
2		Dr. Lovro Šturm (1938-)	25 June 1991	19 December 1998	7 years, 177 days	1st		President of the Court (1997-1998)
3		Dr. Peter Jambrek (1940-)	25 June 1991	19 December 1998	7 years, 177 days	1st		President of the Court (1991-1994)
4		Dr. Anton Perenič (1941-)	25 June 1991	30 September 1992	1 year, 97 days	1st
5		Dr. Anton (Tone) Jerovšek (1941-)	25 June 1991	19 December 1998	7 years, 177 days	1st		President of the Court (1994-1997)
6		Matevž Krivic (1942-)	25 June 1991	19 December 1998	7 years, 177 days	1st
7		Janez Snoj (1934-2005)	12 February 1992	31 March 1998	6 years, 47 days	1st
8		Dr. Lojze Ude (1936-)	25 May 1993	24 May 2002	8 years, 364 days	1st
9		Dr. Boštjan M. Zupančič (1947-)	25 May 1993	31 October 1998	7 years, 128 days	1st		Judge of the ECHR
10		Franc Testen (1948-)	25 May 1993	24 May 2002	8 years, 364 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (4) Perenič		President of the Court (1998-2001)
11		Dr. Miroslava Geč-Korošec (1939-2002)	9 January 1998	1 October 2000	7 years, 177 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (1) Šinkovec
12		Dr. Dragica Wedam Lukić (1949-)	1 April 1998	31 March 2007	8 years, 364 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (7) Snoj		President of the Court (2001-2004)
13		Dr. Janez Čebulj (1957-)	31 October 1998	27 March 2008	9 years, 148 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (3) Jambrek		President of the Court (2004-2007)
14		Lojze Janko (1943-)	31 October 1998	31 October 2007	9 years, 0 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (6) Krivic
15		Dr. Mirjam Škrk (1947-)	31 October 1998	27 March 2008	8 years, 364 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (2) Šturm
16		Milojka Modrijan (????-????)	1 November 1998	20 November 2007	8 years, 364 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (9) Zupančič
17		Dr. Zvonko Fišer (1949-)	18 December 1998	27 March 2008	9 years, 100 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (5) Jerovšek
18		Dr. Franc Grad (1948-)	1 April 2007	31 January 2008	305 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (12) Wedam Lukić	President Janez Drnovšek
19		Dr. Ciril Ribičič (1947-)	19 December 2000	18 December 2009	8 years, 364 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (11) Geč-Korošec
20		Jože Tratnik (1941-)	25 May 2002	17 July 2011	9 years, 53 days	2nd Succeeding Judge (8) Ude		President of the Court (2007-2010)
21		Marija Krisper Kramberger (1946-)	25 May 2002	13 September 2010	8 years, 111 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (10) Testen
22		Miroslav Mozetič (1950-)	31 October 2007	30 October 2016	8 years, 365 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (14) Janko		President of the Court (2013-2016)
23		Marta Klampfer (1953-2016)	20 November 2007	19 November 2016	8 years, 365 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (16) Modrijan
24		Dr. Mitja Deisinger (1942-)	27 March 2008	26 March 2017	8 years, 364 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (17) Fišer	President Danilo Türk
25		Jasna Pogačar (1953-)	27 March 2008	26 March 2017	8 years, 364 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (13) Čebulj
26		Jan Zobec (????-)	27 March 2008	26 March 2017	8 years, 364 days	4th Succeeding Judge (18) Grad
27		Dr. Ernest Petrič (1936-)	25 April 2008	24 April 2017	8 years, 364 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (15) Škrk		President of the Court (2010-2013)
28		Dr. Jadranka Sovdat (1960-)	19 December 2009	18 December 2018	8 years, 364 days	4th Succeeding Judge (19) Ribičič		Secretary of the Court (1999-2009) Professor of Law at the University of Ljubljana President of the Court (2016-2018)
29		Dr. Etelka Korpič-Horvat (1948-)	29 September 2010	27 September 2019	9 years, 323 days	4th Succeeding Judge (21) Krisper Kramberger
30		Dr. Dunja Jadek Pensa (1959-)	15 July 2011	Incumbent	9 years, 33 days	3rd Succeeding Judge (20) Tratnik
31		Dr. Špelca Mežnar (1976-)	31 October 2016	Incumbent	3 years, 291 days	4th Succeeding Judge (22) Mozetič	President Borut Pahor
32		Marko Šorli (1946-)	20 November 2016	Incumbent	3 years, 271 days	4th Succeeding Judge (23) Klampfer		Supreme Judge President of the Judicial Council
33		Dr. Marijan Pavčnik (1946-)	27 March 2017	Incumbent	3 years, 143 days	4th Succeeding Judge (24) Deisinger		Professor of Law at the University of Ljubljana Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
34		Dr. Matej Accetto (1974-)	27 March 2017	Incumbent	3 years, 143 days	4th Succeeding Judge (25) Pogačar		Professor of Law at the University of Ljubljana
35		DDr. Klemen Jaklič (1975-)	27 March 2017	Incumbent	3 years, 143 days	5th Succeeding Judge (26) Zobec		Professor of Law at the Harvard University
36		Dr. Rajko Knez (1969-)	27 March 2017	Incumbent	3 years, 143 days	4th Succeeding Judge (27) Petrič		Professor of Law at the University of Maribor President of the Court (2018-)
37		Dr. Katja Šugman Stubbs (1966-)	19 December 2018	Incumbent	1 year, 242 days	5th Succeeding Judge (28) Sovdat		Professor of Law at the University of Ljubljana
38		Dr. Rok Čeferin (1964-)	27 September 2019	Incumbent	325 days	5th Succeeding Judge (29) Korpič-Horvat		Professor of Law at the University of Ljubljana

Timeline

Presidents of the Court

#	Judge		Term
1		Dr. Peter Jambrek	25 June 1991	24 April 1994
2		Dr. Tone Jerovšek	25 April 1994	24 April 1997
3		Dr. Lovro Šturm	25 April 1997	30 October 1998
4		Franc Testen	11 November 1998	10 November 2001
5		Dr. Dragica Wedam Lukić	11 November 2001	10 November 2004
6		Dr. Janez Čebulj	11 November 2004	10 November 2007
7		Jože Tratnik	11 November 2007	10 November 2010
8		Dr. Ernest Petrič	11 November 2010	10 November 2013
9		Miroslav Mozetič	11 November 2013	30 October 2016
10		Dr. Jadranka Sovdat	31 October 2016	18 December 2018
11		Dr. Rajko Knez	18 December 2018	Incumbent

Secretaries-General of the Court

#	Judge		Term
1		Milan Baškovič	25 June 1991	28 February 1993
2		Dr. Janez Čebulj	1 May 1993	30 October 1998
3		Jadranka Sovdat	29 January 1999	18 December 2009
4		Dr. Erik Kerševan	1 February 2010	31 July 2012
5		Dr. Sebastian Nerad	3 October 2012	Incumbent

See also

• Constitution
• Constitutionalism
• Constitutional economics
• Jurisprudence
• Judiciary
• Rule of law
• Rule According to Higher Law

References

1. "Vsi sodniki » us-rs.si". www.us-rs.si. Retrieved 19 December 2018.

External links

• Constitutional Court of Slovenia (official web page)