Luka Martin Tomažič
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1988 (age 37–38)
Luka Martin Tomažič | |
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| Born | Luka Martin Tomažič 1988 (age 37–38) |
| Alma mater | University of Maribor, University of London, New New University |
| Occupations | Scholar, lawyer, author |
| Employer | Alma Mater Europaea University |
Luka Martin Tomažič (born 1988) is a Slovenian legal scholar, author and intellectual. He has been formally educated in law, international relations, local history, economics and business.[1][2] He has published scholarly articles and books, especially in energy law and legal philosophy.[3][4][5]
He clerked for Ernest Petrič, the former president and member of the United Nations International Law Commission[2] and was a visiting professor at the University of Zagreb.[6] He is a researcher at Alma Mater Europaea[7] and a member of Rotary Club Maribor.[8]
He has been involved in public discussions in Slovenia and has signed open letters on the topics of rule of law, constitutional court conduct and the educational system.[9][10][11] In 2023, he was named by IusInfo as one of the ten most influential Slovenian lawyers.[12][13][14] Tomažič has published poetry in several Slovenian literary journals.[15][16][17][18]
Luka Martin Tomažič studied law and completed a master's in economics and business at the University of Maribor. He received a Master of Laws degree from University of London and a PhD in law from New University.[1][19] Additionally, he holds an advanced diploma in local history from University of Oxford and a graduate diploma in international relations from University of London with London School of Economics and Political Science as the lead college.[20][2][21]
Career
He started his career as an in-house lawyer and later general counsel for Elektro Maribor Energija plus (now part of HSE Group).[22][23][24] He was a research assistant to the member and former president of International Law Commission and Slovenian constitutional court judge professor Ernest Petrič,[2] and was among the thirty young international lawyers selected as participants at the 51st session of the International Law Seminar at the United Nations Office in Geneva.[25][26] In 2020, he was appointed by the Constitutional Commission of the Slovenian Parliament to the expert group for assessment of simplification of the appointment of government.[27] He later transitioned to academia as a researcher and assistant professor at Alma Mater Europaea university.[7] He has published more than a hundred works, including three scientific monographs, eighteen scientific articles and has acted as a reviewer for international scientific journals, including Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Sustainability and Lex Localis.[3] He was a visiting professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, where he also lectured at the Zagreb Legal Theory Group.[6] In 2023, the IusInfo portal deemed him one of the ten most influential Slovenian lawyers.[12][13][14]
He has been the vice president of the organisational board and a member of the scientific and programme committee of the annual It's About People conference, organised by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Alma Mater Europaea - ECM. These events featured the European Commission vice-presidents and commissioners Maroš Šefčovič, Mariya Gabriel and Dubravka Šuica, economist Jeffrey Sachs, Oxford Faculty of Law dean Mindy Chen-Wishart, Baroness Ruth Deech, Facebook oversight board member András Sajó, Klaus Mainzer, and Felix Unger of EASA, as well as presidents of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor and Nataša Pirc Musar.[28][29][30][31][32]
