On 16 of May Vilnius University honoured professor Otmar Seul from Paris Nanterre University by awarding him with a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. He was awarded for the outstanding work in fields of implementation of new legal education methods, improvement of legal studies programmes, development of an open comparative approach to different legal traditions and cultural diversity, solving the issues of European integration and harmonisation of national law as well as for his close collaboration with Vilnius University.