Prof Primož GORKIČ

Primož Gorkič graduated in 2002 from the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, where he also received his doctorate in 2009. During his doctoral studies, he passed the state law exam (2004), and after completing his studies he was a visiting researcher at the (then) Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, 2012) and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (2018).

From 2004 to 2010 he worked as a researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and later as an assistant professor (2010) and associate professor (2015). He regularly participated in research projects with the Ljubljana Institute of Criminology. In the years 2007-2009 and 2014-2015, he cooperated as a part-time advisor with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia and the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Slovenia. His research interests include criminal procedural law, law of evidence, and protection of the right to privacy in criminal law. He has participated in several domestic and international research projects. In December 2020, he was elected a judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia.