Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije (Supreme Court of Slovenia)

Damjan Orož
President of the Supreme Court

President since: January 2026
Member of the Supreme Court since: 2021

Biography and career

Dr. Damjan Orož was born in 1975. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana in 1998 and received his doctorate in enforcement law in 2019. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was "Objection in enforcement and its impact on the level of legal certainty".

He began his career as a first-instance judge at the District Court in Ljubljana, where he was also the head of the Executive Department of the court and the organisational unit for bankruptcy cases (personal bankruptcy). Until his election as a senior judge, he also served as Vice-President of the District Court in Ljubljana. He was appointed to the position of Senior Judge in September 2011. He served as a senior judge at the Higher Court in Ljubljana in the Executive and Commercial Departments of that court.

He was elected judge of the Supreme Court in December 2021. He sits in the Commercial Division and, as a member of the Senate, in other divisions of the Supreme Court. In recent years, he has been the head of the Department for Monitoring Case Law, and has also been a member of the Personnel Council of the Supreme Court, head of the New Functionalities of the Knowledge Base task force, member of the Commission for the Issuance and Revocation of Authorisation to Perform the Function of an Administrator and a member of the Expert Council of the Centre for Judicial Education. He has also served on several working and task forces at the Supreme Court. He was appointed President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia in November 2025.

He is an active lecturer and writer of professional papers, especially in the field of insolvency law, enforcement law, civil procedural law, property law and law of obligations. As part of his duties within the judiciary, he has also been involved in the drafting of legislation, in particular with regard to the Financial Operations, Insolvency and Compulsory Winding-up Acts, and the Enforcement and Insurance Act, as well as occasionally with regard to other laws and regulations.

He speaks English and German.