The present master's thesis is a critical assessment of the criminal offence of bigamy in the Slovenian Criminal code. The author analyses the legal norm and identifies its weaknesses, both nomotechnical and substantive. He addresses the difficulties in identifying the legal good that the incrimination is supposed to protect, the lack of clarity of the legal text, which is especially evident in situations with a foreign element, and the doubt about the legitimacy of the incrimination. The author presents the various views that emerge in theory regarding the legal good and critically evaluates them. He further focuses on the analysis of theoretical constructs of polygamous marriages with a foreign element, and on this basis puts forward a thesis on the national limitation of the criminal good, which is otherwise not sufficiently evident from the legal text itself. Based on all the above, the author also evaluates the legitimacy of the incrimination using the criteria that have been developed for this purpose in domestic and foreign criminal law theory and case law. The final part of the master's thesis contains the author's concrete proposals for changing the legal norm, which he came to through his findings.
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