Curriculum vitae of BOŠTJAN M. ZUPANČIČ PERSONAL DETAILS Nationality: Slovene Sex: male Date of birth: 13 May 1947 Place of birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia Status: Married, four children (31, 29, 9 and 7 years) E-mail: bostjan.zupancic@echr.coe.int Address: Boštjan M. Zupančič European Court of Human Rights F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex France Telephone: +33 (0)3 88 41 35 84 (office) +33 (0)3 88 32 42 08 (home) Fax: +33 (0)3 88 41 27 30 JUDICIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERIENCE Three years as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights Three years as a Member (and Vice-Chair) of the United Nations Committee Against Torture Five years as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia and President of Criminal Law Chamber EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 1981: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts Scientiae Juris Doctor (S.J.D.), Professor R.M. Unger, Mentor Dissertation: Criminal Law: The Conflict and the Rules (published) 1976-77: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts Research Scholar 1973-74: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts S.J.D. Programme 1972-73: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts LL.M (average grade: A-)
1971-72: UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL, École de Criminologie, Montreal, Canada, Research Scholar 1970-71: UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, Faculty of Law followed Master of Laws course Summer 1968: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom extra-mural in law studies 1966-70: UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, Faculty of Law Dipl. iur. (average grade: 9 (out of 10)). Prize scholarships: Boris Kraigher, Boris Kidrič and Dr Prešeren Award (highest available for students) EMPLOYMENT 1 November 1998 to present: JUDGE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, JUDGE 1993-98 JUDGE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SLOVENIA Chair of the Criminal Law Chamber 1995-98 UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE (Geneva), Member, Vice-Chair (1997-98) 1993 China University of Law and Public Policy Visiting Professor 1989-92 University of Ljubljana, First Vice-President (for academic affairs) 1986-98 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law Full Professor of Law in 1989 1982-86 Seton Hall University, Law School, Full Professor of Law in 1985 1983-85 Athens University & Temple University Joint Summer Programmes 1981 Fordham University, School of Law Visiting Professor of Law 1980-81 Seton Hall University, Law School Visiting Professor of Law 1980 Iowa University, College of Law Visiting Professor of Law 1979 Supreme Court of Slovenia Clerking 1977-79 New York Law School Assistant Professor of Law 1975-76 University of Ljubljana, Law School Assistant Professor of Law 1976 Circuit Court of Ljubljana Clerking 1974-75 Army Honorary Discharge, Corporal
1970-74 University of Ljubljana Assistant Professor LANGUAGES [VG = very good; G = good; F = fair] First language: Official Languages: Other Languages: Can follow: Slovene: Reading (VG), Writing (VG), Speaking (VG); English: Reading (VG), Writing (VG), Speaking (VG); French: Reading (VG), Writing (F), Speaking (VG); Serbian and Croatian: Reading (VG), Writing (VG), Speaking (VG); German: Reading (F), Writing (--), Speaking (F) Italian: Reading (F), Writing (--), Speaking (F); Latin: Reading (VG), Writing (--), Speaking (--) Russian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Spanish etc. SHORT LIST OF BOOKS AND TREATISES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH From Combat to Contract: What Does the Constitution Constitute?, 1 European Journal of Law Reform 59-95 (1999), in Czech-language journal Pravnik, 1997. Translation and publication in Portuguese in 2002. The Crown and the Criminal: Towards the General Principles of Criminal Procedure, 9 European Review of Public Law 11-39 (1997). Criminal Law and its Influence upon Normative Integration, LL.M thesis, Harvard Law School, 7 Acta Criminologica (spring 1974), Montreal, Canada. CRIMINAL LAW: THE CONFLICT AND THE RULES (S.J.D. dissertation, Harvard Law School), New York, 1981 (296 pages, published as articles, infra). The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Arizona State Law Journal (1981:1) 1-25. On Legal Formalism: The Principle of Legality in Criminal Law, 27 Loyola Law Review 356-369 (1981) Truth and Impartiality in Criminal Process, 8 Journal of Contemporary Law 39-133 (1982)
CRIMINAL LAW: ITS NATURE AND ITS FUNCTION, New York, 1983, 401 pages (to appear in Chinese in 2001) Criminal Responsibility under Mistake of Law: the Real Reasons, 13 American Journal of Criminal Law 37-66 (1985) CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: A THEORETICAL VADEMECUM, Seton Hall, 1985, 400 pages (textbook) CRIMINAL LAW, Seton Hall, 1986, 358 pages (advanced criminal law textbook) Access to Court, 9(2) Nottingham Law Journal 1-16 (December 2000) CRIMINAL LAW, book 350 pages, Beijing 2001 (in Chinese) DROIT CONSTITUTIONNEL ET JURISPRUDENCE DE LA COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L HOMME, Tentative de synthèse, in 2001 Annuaire de droit constitutionnel p. 14, Marseille, p. 14 ADJUDICATION AND THE RULE OF LAW, book, to appear in 2003 SUMMARY OF PUBLICATIONS IN SLOVENE (1986-99) Books 1. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE TEXTBOOK AND CASEBOOK, five editions: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1994 2. ANALYSIS OF A COURT MARTIAL CRIMINAL PROCESS, 1988 (262 pages) coauthor and editor 3. FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, 1990 (321 pages) co-author and editor 4. CONSTITUTIONAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CASEBOOK (1996) (915 pages); 2nd edition (1100 pages) 1999 ARTICLES: About twenty longer legal treatises, numerous short articles. MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED BODIES Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, Vancouver, Canada Association Internationale de droit Constitutionnel Editorial Board of Dignitas, Ljubljana Editorial Board Revija 2000, Ljubljana International Editorial Board Pravni Vjesnik, Osijek, Croatia Advisory Board, Nottingham Law Journal, United Kingdom
LECTURES Harvard Law School, 1995, 1998 Chong Qing University of Law and Public Policy (future judges, prosecutors and policemen), China, 1994 China University of Law and Public Policy(future judges, prosecutors and policemen), Beijing, 1994 University of Cardiff, Wales, U.K., 1995 Beijing University, Faculty of Law, Beijing 1997 Gong An (Police) University, Beijing, 1997 Central European University, Budapest, 1997 Zagreb University, Faculty of Law, LL.M. Program in Criminal Law (judges, prosecutors and policemen), Zagreb, Croatia 1997 Lectures to Slovene judges and lawyers, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Cyprus Human Rights Association (judges, prosecutors and lawyers), 1999 Lecture to Norvegian Judges, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France 1999 Lecture to École nationale d administration (ENA), European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France 1999 University of Washington, Law School, Seattle, 1999 University of British Columbia and B.C. Bar Associataion, Vancouver, Canada 1999 Université Paris XIII, Faculté de droit, autumn 1999, spring and autumn 2000 Lecture to Association international de droit constitutionnel, Senat, Paris, spring 2001 Amnesty International, Ljubljana, autumn 2000 Lectures to judges, Kiev, Ukraine, spring 2002
Keyspeech to O.S.C.E., Warsaw, spring 2002 College of Criminal Justice (judges, prosecutors and policemen), Ljubljana, Slovenia, spring 2002 Paris I (Sorbonne-Panthéon), Faculté de droit, autumn 2002 University of Idaho, Law School, Idaho, U.S.A. spring 2003