Paul Varul

Paul Varul ( born December 10, 1952 in Valga ) is an Estonian politician and lawyer.

Life

Paul Varul graduated in 1975 his studies in law at the State University of Tartu (true ) from. From 1976, he worked as a lecturer in law. In 1985, he put in Leningrad be Kandidatexamen (PhD ) from. After regaining independence Estonia Varul initiated in 1991/92 the chair of civil law and civil procedure at the University of Tartu and from 1992 was professor of civil and commercial law.

From April 1995 to March 1997 Varul was in the cabinets of Prime Minister Tiit Vähi Attorney General of the Republic of Estonia. Subsequently, he held the same office by March 1999 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mart Siimann. Varul belonged to the Estonian Coalition Party (Estonian Eesti Koonderakond ).

After the collapse of the Soviet system in Estonia and the restoration of democracy Varul Paul played a key role in the creation of a modern Estonian private law. He worked mainly in the first half of the 1990s in the creation of the Estonian Bankruptcy Act ( Pankrotiseadus, 1992), property law ( Asjaõiguseseadus, 1993), the General Part of the Civil Code ( Tsiviilseadustiku üldosa seadus, 1994) of the Family Code ( Perekonnaseadus, 1994 ) and the Erbgesetzes ( Pärimisseadus, 1996) as well as to other economic laws and reforms.

Since 1999 Varul has worked as a teacher of law and lawyer again. He is a partner in a large law firm in Tallinn and Tartu.

Varul is a founding member of the en: European Law Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the legal research and the improvement of European law is devoted to with the aim to join the European integration in the field of European law constructive.