Ivan Gašparovič was born on 27 March 1941 in Poltár. From 1959 until 1964 he studied law at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University (“CU”) in Bratislava. Following graduation, from 1965 until 1966 he was an articled clerk at the District Public Prosecution Office in Martin, and he worked for the Public Prosecution Office, Bratislava, from 1966 to 1968. In 1968 he started work as a lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of CU Department of Law. In the period 1966 through to 1989, he also held various positions in sport: he was the Vice-President of the...