On the 1st of October new PhD students started their doctoral studies at the Faculty. Agnė Andrijauskaitė, Eglė Ruzgytė, Lijana Kanarskienė, Klaudijus Širvelis and Tadas Lukošius will write their doctoral thesis about public law; Edvinas Bakanauskas, Sebastjan Okinčic, Olga Shevchenko will devote their thesis for private law; Ieva Marija Ragaišytė and Martynas Dobrovolskis will research criminal law. PhD students were greeted by the Dean of the Faculty prof. Tomas Davulis who wished all of them to exploit all the opportunities for Phd students and be active members of the Faculty.
VU Law Faculty has more than 70 doctoral students at the moment.