Dean of VU Faculty of Law Prof. Dr. Tomas Davulis and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vigita Vėbraitė visited Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy. Representatives of the law faculties of the universities were met and different ways to promote cooperation between institutions were discussed. It has been agreed that spring Read more
On the 9th November 2017 VU Faculty of Law professor Aurelijus Gutauskas has been appointed by Lithuanian Parliament as a chairman of Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania. We are sending our warmest greetings to the professor!
On 3rd November 2017 international experts group will be visiting VU Faculty of Law and will be evaluating Master’s degree programme „International and European Union Law”. External evaluation group will consist of persons with experience in management higher education institutions, social partner and representative of students. The study programme will be evaluated by analysing different Read more
On the 26th of October Vilnius University Faculty of Law together with Lithuania lawyers association and VU Faculty of Law Alumni society organised a discussion to commemorate 25th anniversary of Lithuania Constitution. Guests from different legal institutions, also students and scholars of the Faculty of Law participated in the event. Prof. Dr. Egidijus Šileikis spoke Read more
On 23rd of October delegation from Azerbaijan led by Matin Karimli Imdad – deputy minister of labour and social protection of population of the Republic of Azerbaijan- visited VU Faculty of Law. The visit was organised in the framework EU Twinning project “Support to the Ministry on Labour and Social Protection of the Population in Read more
On 17th of October Lithuanian Parliament appointed six new judges for Supreme Court of Lithuania. We are proud that four new judges are also scholars of VU Faculty of Law. Associated professors of Private Law Department Danguolė Bublienė and Algirdas Taminskas will start working from November in Civil Division of the Court. Associated professors of Read more
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. Read more
On 28th of September judges from different EU Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Romania) visited VU Faculy of Law. They have been visiting Lithuania for two weeks according to the programme of EU. The judges were interested in the study programmes at VU Faculty of Law, peculiarities of doctoral studies Read more
On 19-22nd of September Assoc. prof. dr. Vigita Vėbraitė participated in summer school “Dispute resolution: a multifaceted approach” organised by Pavia University. Vigita Vėbraitė lectured about legal regulation and popularity of arbitration and mediation in the Baltic States. Professors from Croatia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Russia, also professors and practitioners from different Italian institutions participated Read more
On 18th of September law professor Douglas B.Mckechnie from U.S. Air Force Academy visited VU Faculty of Law and gave lecture on “U.S. Constitution and violent speech”. During the lecture students actively discussed about broad boundaries of freedom of speech in USA and leading cases of U.S. Supreme Court on these issues. Prof. Douglas B.Mckechnie Read more
