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gality and legitimacy and legal culture. Author of the monograph Free­ dom of Expression (2007). Member of the Slovenian Constitutional Law 
Association’s managing board. Initiator, co­ founder and managing editor 
of REVUS­ European Constitutionality Review. Author of the Nations 
In Transit Report for Slovenia, 2006, Freedom House. Co­ founder and 
president of the Club Revus –Centre for Studies of European Democra­ cy and Constitutionality. As research associate he is above all responsible 
for the promotion of the legal and policy studies in the field of mental he­ alth and he is the Head of the Centre for Combined Science and Deve­ lopment, with the key purpose to establish and develop one single, combi­ ned, interdisciplinary science.
Danijela Lahe
Asis. mag. Danijela Lahe je zaposlena na Oddelku za sociologijo Filozof­ ske fakultete Univerze v Mariboru. Njeno raziskovalno in strokovno delo 
se nanaša predvsem na preučevanje področja družine in socialne geronto­ logije. Je avtorica in soavtorica strokovnih in znanstvenih prispevkov, ob­ javljenih v domačih in tujih publikacijah. danijela.lahe@um.si
Asis. mag. Danijela Lahe works at the Department od Sociology (Faculty 
of Arts) at the University of Maribor. Her research and professional work 
is mainly focused on examining family and social gerontology. She is an 
author and co­ aurhor of various scientific articles published in national 
and international scientific publications. danijela.lahe@um.si
Jana Goriup
Jana Goriup, red. prof., univerzitetna učiteljica in predavateljica za soci­ ologijo družine in sociologijo vzgoje in izobraževanja ter socialno geron­ tologijo na FF in sociologijo zdravja in bolezni na FZV UM; raziskoval­ ka navedenih področij, soavtorica monografij in avtorica znanstvenih ter 
strokovnih člankov. jana.goriup@guest.um.si
Jana Goriup, university teacher and lecturer  of Sociology of the family, 
and the Sociology of education and Social gerontology and Sociology at 
health and diseases on Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Health Sciences 
University of Maribor;  researcher in listed areas,  co­ author of the mono­ graphs and the author of the scientific and professional articles. jana.gori­ up@guest.um.si
Ana Šmidhofer
Ana Šmidhofer je magistrirala in doktorirala na Oddelku za pedagogiko 
Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Mariboru. Raziskuje vplive nekaterih fi­ lozofskih tokov (personalizma, filozofske antropologije, fenomenologije 
itd.) na slovensko pedagoško misel med obema svetovnima vojnama.

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Ana Šmidhofer was awarded the master’s and doctor’s degree at the De­ partment of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. She 
researches influences of some philosophical streams (personalism, philo­ sophical anthropology, phenomenology, etc.) on the Slovene pedagogical 
thought between the two world wars.
Igor Ž. Žagar
Igor Ž. Žagar je študiral filozofijo, sociologijo in lingvistiko na univerzah 
v Ljubljani, Parizu in Antwerpnu. Doktoriral je iz sociologije kulture na 
Univerzi v Ljubljani. Je redni profesor retorike in argumentacije (Univer­ za na Primorskem in Univerza v Mariboru) ter znanstveni svetnik (pred­ stojnik Centra za diskurzivne študije) na Pedagoškem inštitutu v Ljublja­ ni. Predaval je na univerzah v Belgiji, Združenih državah Amerike, Italiji, 
na Kitajskem, Nizozemskem, v Združenem kraljestvu, Španiji, Rusiji, Ro­ muniji in na Poljskem. Žagar se ukvarja predvsem s pragmatiko (teorija 
govornih dejanj, (kritična) analiza diskurza), filozofijo (jezika), argumen­ tacijo in retoriko. Je (so)avtor in (so)urednik dvanajstih knjig in preko sto 
člankov. igor.zagar@guest.arnes.si, www.igorzagar.net.
Igor Ž. Žagar studied philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Ljubljana, 
Paris, and Antwerp. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology of Cul­ ture from the University of Ljubljana. He is Professor of Rhetoric and Ar­ gumentation (University of Primorska & University of Maribor), and a 
Senior Research Fellow (Head of the Centre for Discourse Studies) at the
Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has lectured in 
Belgium, United States, Italy, China, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, 
Spain, Russia, Romania, Poland, and France. Žagar is especially interested 
in pragmatics (speech act theory, (critical) discourse analysis), the philo­ sophy of language, argumentation and rhetoric. He is the (co)author and
(co)editor of twelve books, and more than a hundred articles. igor.zagar@
guest.arnes.si, www.igorzagar.net.