Dr. Jaromir Beran was born on March 7, 1909 in Maribor. He graduated from clasical high school in 1927, studien law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and graduduated in 1940. After completing his traineeship he obtaned a position at the Faculty of Law where he worked as librarian until 1952. In the winter term of 1952,after Professor Janko Polec had retired and Professor Josip Žontar had left the faculty, Beran took over the classes on the history of law. As a law history professor he tried to establish a unified program for teaching this subject throughout then Yugoslavia. In 1976 he retired from the Faculty of Law.