Dean of VU Faculty of Law prof. Tomas Davulis has been named a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques) by the French Government. The decoration is given to those who have advanced the cause of French culture, education. The honour acknowledges involvement of Tomas Davulis in the establishment of Read more
Cooperation
VU Faculty of Law will cooperate with Maastricht University scholars
On the 25th of June VU Faculty of Law and Maastricht University Faculty of Law signed a memorandum to collaborate in the fields of education and research. Both parties agreed to work together, and develop their collaborative work with an aim to set-up executive education in Vilnius with a clear objective to reach the entire Read more
Growing the world’s most innovative factories: Finland focuses on cooperation with science
It is well known that the foundation of the Finnish welfare society is the educational system, which offers equal opportunities in education for all, irrespective of their differences in such aspects as economic situation, cultural background, or language. Finland is also known to have a leading environment for and approach to university-business cooperation in Europe. In Read more
Internship at the EUROPEAN COMMISSION – DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AID AND CIVIL PROTECTION – ECHO
Internship at the EUROPEAN COMMISSION – DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AID AND CIVIL PROTECTION – ECHO: Duration: 4 months Timing: 1st September, 2018 to 31st January, 2019 Place: DG ECHO in Brussels (rue d’Arlon 88, 1040 Brussels) Placing: see attached document University relation: Candidates must be students from a NOHA member university (Vilnius University) at the Read more
Spring law school in Kyiv
From 16th till 20th of April spring law school was held at Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The spring school was organised by Faculties of Law of Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Vilnius University and it was devoted to “Impact of European Union law on the national legal systems: experiences of Lithuania and Ukraine”. Read more
Summer School on financial crime, corruption and money laundering
Invitation to participate in Summer School “Recent developments on financial crime, corruption and money laundering: European and international perspectives”. The Summer School will take place in Thessaloniki, 4-12 July 2018. The application deadline is 6 May 2018. INVITATION
Representatives of the Ukrainian commissioner for human rights institution visit Vilnius
On 3rd-5th of April representatives of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) institution visit Vilnius and different Lithuanian institutions. The trip was organised and financed by Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and VU Faculty of Law is responsible for coordinating different meetings in Lithuania. The visit started in Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Read more
Legal Tech Vilnius hackathon
COBALT, ATEA and Vilnius Tech Park are organising the first in its series LegalTech Hackathon in Lithuania. VU Faculty of Law is also a partner of the event. Date: 16 – 17 March, 2018 Time: 16 March, 5PM – 17 March, 7 PM Place: Vilnius Tech Park We believe that technology will change the business of law significantly. Read more
PhD student won 3rd place in 2017 4iP Council Research Awards
Jurgita Randakevičiūtė, PhD student of Public law department, won 3rd place in 2017 4iP Council Research Awards. Her paper was called „Patent ambush: the commitment decision of the European Commission in the Rambus case“. 4iP Council is a European research council dedicated to developing high quality academic insight and empirical evidence on topics related to Read more
VU Faculty of Law professors awarded with Lithuanian notariate medals
On the 2nd of December prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Nekrošius and prof. dr. Jonas Prapiestis were awarded with the commemorative medals of Juozas Vilkutaitis-Keturakis in accordance with the resolution of the Presidium of the Lithuanian Chamber of Notaries. They were nominated for this award considering their valuable contribution towards implementation of principles of Latin notariate Read more