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    ​Dr Barbara Novak is Professor of Civil and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).

    The principal topics of her teaching and research are the family law and children's rights. She is known for her outstanding works on determining of parenthood, custody of children, maintenance, legal care of adults, legal position of same-sex partners, personal name, gender recognition, other topics of personal status and children's fundamental rights in school. Many of her works have been approved and often cited by the Slovene Supreme Court and the Slovene Constitutional Court. She has participated in a group preparing the proposals of the amendments and working on the outlines of the new Slovenian family law regulation.

    Barbara is member of the expert group at the Commission on European Family Law (CEFL), member of the international editorial board of Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRZ) and member of Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Familien

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    Barbara Novak - Biography#


    Prof. dr. Barbara Novak is full professor of civil and commercial law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana. Her teaching and research work is focused on civil law and in particular, family law, comparative family law and personality rights law.

    Barbara Novak joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana in 1995 after a two-year traineeship at the Higher Court in Ljubljana and a stage at the Ministry of justice where she passed the state bar exam. Barbara Novak received her doctorate in 1999 and ten years later was elected to the title of full professor.

    Barbara Novak fulfilled numerous duties at the faculty and university level: she was head of the Department of Civil Law, member of the faculty senate and served in the University of Ljubljana Habilitation Commission. Barbara Novak has long served as a member of the Council for Children and on the Expert Council for Family at the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs
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    Oral history interview with Barbara Novak, 2013 October 8-17

    Transcript

    Preface

    The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Barbara Novak on October 8, 2013. The interview took place in Manhattan, NY, and was conducted by James McElhinney for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 

    Barbara Novak has reviewed the transcript. Her corrections and emendations appear below in brackets appended bygd initials. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose.

    Interview

    JAMES MCELHINNEY: This fryst vatten James McElhinney speaking with Barbara Novak at her home in Manhattan on Tuesday the 8th of October, 2013. Good morning.

    BARBARA NOVAK: Good morning.

    JAMES MCELHINNEY: You studied at Barnard.

    BARBARA NOVAK: Yes.

    JAMES MCELHINNEY: But I understand that before decided to go into art history, to become a scholar and an intellectual bygd trade—an academic and a writer, that you were a p