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'''Klemen Jaklic''' (born August 6, 1975) is a legal academic, Lecturer on Law at [[Harvard Law School]]<ref name="HLS">http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=1007</ref> and Teaching Fellow in Ethics at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]],<ref name="HKS">http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/About/Fellows-Scholars/Democracy</ref> [[Harvard University]]. He is among the world’s handful legal scholars who have concurrently completed both the Harvard and Oxford most advanced doctorate degrees in law:<ref>http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/degrees/gradprogram/sjd/index.html</ref><ref>http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate/dphil.php</ref> a D.Phil. from [[Oxford University]] and an S.J.D. from [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name="HLS" /> At Harvard he is teaching on European integration, moral reasoning: justice, human rights, constitutional law, ethics, and the future of democracy.<ref name="HLS" /><ref>http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/courses/2011-12/?id=10159</ref><ref name="CES">http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/p341.html</ref> He is a recipient of repeated Harvard University teaching excellence awards<ref name="HLS" /> and a scholar on Europe whose recent work “Europe as a Route to Humanity’s Third Historic Stage of Democracy” won the Harvard 2011 Mancini Prize ("best work in the field of EU law and European thought").<ref name="HLS" /> Over the course of the last decade he worked primarily with [[Frank Michelman]] from Harvard and [[Paul Craig (law professor)|Paul Craig]] from Oxford,<ref name="SJD">http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/degrees/gradprogram/sjd/sjd-current-students/klemen-jaklic.html</ref> who both have influenced this work in which Jaklic argues that the unique post-sovereign context of the new Europe has opened the possibility for humanity to initiate the “third historic leap” in our understanding and expansion of the concept of democracy.<ref name="Democracy">K Jaklic, "Democracy's Third Coming: Europe as a Route to Humanity's Third Historic Stage of Democracy", p 3, on file with the Lewis Law Library, Harvard Law School.</ref> It is described as the leap comparable in its significance and breadth only to the first initiation of the city-state democracy in ancient Athens (the first leap), and to the improved concept of the nation-state democracy that came as the aftermath of the 18th century democratic revolutions (the second, and current leap).<ref name="Democracy" /> In 2005 Klemen Jaklic published the first translation of the United States Constitution into Slovenian language.<ref>Jaklic Klemen and Jurij Toplak. Ustava ZDA s pojasnili (The U.S. Constitution With Commentary). Ljubljana: Nova obzorja, 2005.</ref> Jaklic is also current member of the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (the [[Venice Commission]]),<ref name="Venice">http://www.venice.coe.int/site/members/cv/cv_slo_jak_kle_e.asp</ref> and an Affiliate of the Harvard University Center for European Studies.<ref name="CES" /><ref>http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/</ref> ==External links== *[http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/handbook/handbook-faculty/2011-12/2011-2012-faculty.html]. *[https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/people/profile/jaklic] Jaklic Biography at Harvard University Center for European Studies. == Notes == <references/>