Peter Čeferin
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| Born |
28 June 1938 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Relations | Aleksander Čeferin (son) |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
| Profession | Attorney |
Peter Čeferin is a Slovenian attorney and the author of articles on issues related to the legal profession (specifically the position and profession of practicing attorneys). He is a father of Aleksander Čeferin, the president of UEFA.
Čeferin was born in 1938 in Ljubljana to Anica Čeferin (born Kačnik) and Emil Čeferin. His father was a lawyer and an expert in cooperative agricultural law and a professor the University of Ljubljana. Čeferin earned his baccalaureate at a classical secondary school (gymnasium) in 1956 and enrolled at the Faculty of law, University of Ljubljana the same year, where he graduated in 1960. Čeferin began his independent practice as an attorney in 1967. In 1986 he completed his Master's degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and successfully defended his doctoral thesis – Odvetnik, njegova neodvisnost nekoč in danes, posebej v Sloveniji [The Attorney, His Independence in the Past and Today, With Particular Regard to Slovenia] – in 1988.
After graduation, Čeferin worked as a journalist, and was also engaged in playwriting. The Ljubljana City Theatre staged two of his satires as part of the literary-satirical cabaret Smeh ni greh [Laughter is not a Sin]: Srečka [The Lottery Ticket] and Pridržanje do iztreznitve [Detained until Sober].
He has worked as an attorney since 1967. In 1993 he founded the Law Firm Čeferin together with his two sons Rok Čeferin and Aleksander Čeferin. He works principally in the domains of criminal law and constitutional law and personal (human) rights law.
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