In February this year, the Law Faculty of the Vilnius University received a good news – funding was awarded for the postdoctoral fellowship project “Investigating Gender-Based Discrimination: Unveiling the Underlying Mechanisms (UnveilGBD)”, which will be implemented by Dr. Giulia Lausi (supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilona Michailovič) who is the psychologist and researcher of the University Read more
Last week, the VU Law Fcaulty invited to four events, where various topics were discussed: the achievements of Professor Stasys Vėlyvis, the institute of citizenship, Soviet and Russian crimes in Ukraine, and artificial intelligence assistants. The conference “Professor (HP) Stasys Vėlyvis (1938-2023) and Civil Procedure – Teacher and Disciples” was held at the Lithuanian Read more
Today the Vilnius University Law Faculty was visited by Dovilė Burgienė, Managing Partner of the law firm WALLESS. During the visit, she met with the Dean of the Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haroldas Šinkūnas and signed a cooperation agreement. The signed agreement commits both parties to cooperate in organising events of various kinds. Another Read more
VU Law Faculty has started the spring by lecture “Are Societal Values Reflected in the ECtHR Practice? Examples from the Baltic States” which was held by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Donatas Murauskas on March 1st. At first D. Murauskas presented the discourse of human rights, which, according to him, today is essentially equal to the Read more
Celebrating the Day of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania on February 16th, the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda, presented state awards for merits to Lithuania and for promoting Lithuania’s name worldwide. We warmly congratulate Valentinas Mikelėnas, Professor of the Department of Private Law at the Vilnius University Law Faculty, Read more
International panel of experts which was organized by the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education evaluated the Law Faculty‘s studies and granted accreditation for 7 years. The experts rated all the following areas as very good or excellent at national and international level: the objectives, results and content of the studies; the links Read more
It is 20 years since of Lituania‘s accession to NATO in 2004, and marking this special anniversary was held an international conference “Euro-Atlantic Partnership: 20 Years of Lithuania’s NATO Membership and the Role of the Alliance in Changing International Geopolitical Landscape” where was discussed how to meet the challenges facing the Alliance today and Read more
On 26 January, during the Winter Graduation Ceremony of the Vilnius University Law Faculty, the winners of the Kazimieras Motieka Foundation Prize for the best doctoral dissertation of the academic year, Dr. Justinas Bagdžius and Dr. Alaa Al Dakour Al Aridi, were announced and awarded. This prize (EUR 2,500 for each) was awarded in Read more
Today was held one of the most important celebrations of the Law Faculty of Vilnius University – the winter diploma ceremony, which took place at the St. John’s Church. 61 students successfully have completed their studies and received their Master of Law diplomas, 21 of them studied in the Integral Studies programme, 40 in “International Read more
Today, the Dean of the VU Law Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haroldas Šinkūnas, and the Director of the Lithuanian Probation Service, Romas Ostanavičius, have signed a cooperation agreement. The parties agreed on cooperation between the institutions by informing each other about planned conferences, seminars and introducing students to the activities and specifics of the Read more
