Law Institute of Lithuania

The Institute of Law ( Lithuanian Teisės institutas ) is a company incorporated on the initiative of the Lithuanian government in 1991, state scientific (research ) facility to coordinate the reform of the legal system and legal institutions in Lithuania, she of the economic and social restructuring country to join. The founder of the Institute, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania. The direction of the Institute of Public Law and Criminology. In 2008 there were 35 employees.

Objectives

The main objectives of the Institute are to contribute to the development of the scientific basis for the reform of the Lithuanian law and the legal system and its individual elements on the basis of national experiences and achievements of European legal development, contributing to the protection of human rights and the to make fundamental freedoms by developing national scientific studies as well as for scientific applied research in the field of law and the legal system through legal action to establish a favorable environment for business. The main research areas of the Institute are as follows: Public Law (focus on issues of constitutional and criminal law ) and Criminology (problems of the child rights protection and youth justice ).

Functions

The Institute performs the following functions:

  • Performs applied scientific research on the legal system;
  • Created the legal and criminological expertise of laws and other legal acts, as well as of their projects;
  • Collects, analyzes, systematic and represents the state institutions before the legal and criminological information;
  • Published research results and methodological publications;
  • Participates in the training of lawyers and the legal form of the company;
  • Participates in the drafting of bills and drafts of other acts.

History

After the restoration of national independence of Lithuania, founded in the Soviet time Teismo ekspertizės mokslinio tyrimo was reorganized institutas (TEI, German Institute for Forensic Research).

On November 23, 1991, I founded Teisės institutas. As of November 30, 1991 was heard in the activities of Valstybinės teisinės informacijos departamentas prie Teisingumo ministerijos. The Institute is founded three specialized departments (one for criminological research, a comparative law as well as one for legal information).

In 1993, the responsibilities of the Department for Legal Information of the newly founded center of the Ministry of Justice ( Teisinės informacijos centras, TIC) were passed. After that, a library was established in the Institute, and gave it four specialized departments (one for private legal research, one for constitutional and international law research, one for criminological research and an information methodical department ).

From 1993, the Institute is the legal trade magazine out " Teisės problemos ". 1995 made ​​it to the collection of the historical sources of law " Lietuvos Valstybės teisės Aktai " (published 1996) and until 2002, the comment of the Lithuanian Constitution (responsible editor Karolis Jovaišas ).

From 2005 to 2008 we conducted 52 studies ( including 38 national and 14 international).

Structure

The Institute is divided into the following departments:

  • Department of International Relations
  • Department of criminological research ( with the Section for Child and Youth Justice )
  • Department of Legal System Research
  • Department of Strafjustizforschun
  • Department of Publishing and General Affairs ( journal " Teisės problemos " dt " legal problems ").

Board of Directors

  • Chairman: Ingrida Mačernytė - Panomariovienė
  • Secretary: Laura Ūselė
  • Other members: Svetlana Justickaja, Algimatas cepas, Aušra Pocienė, Skirmantas Bikelis, Salomeja Zaksaitė and appointed Gytis Andriulionis (Vice-Minister of Justice) and Paulius Griciūnas (officials from the Ministry of Justice) to the decision of the Lithuanian Minister of Justice.

Management

  • Gytis Andrulionis

Employee

  • Prof. Vytautas Andriulis ( b. 1937 ), historian of law
  • Prof. Genovaitė Babachinaitė (* 1944), criminologist
  • Prof. Darijus Beinoravičius ( b. 1974 ), philosopher of law
  • Prof. Aurelijus Gutauskas (born 1972 ), criminal law, judges of the Supreme Court
  • Prof. Raimundas Jurka (born 1978 ), Strafprozessrechtler
  • Prof. Alfonsas Vaišvila ( b. 1942 ), philosopher of law
  • Prof. Justina Žilinskas ( b. 1974 ), head of the Chair of Comparative Law, lawyer poet, writer ( dreamer )
  • Prof. Gintaras Goda (born 1965 ), judge of the Supreme Court
  • Danute Jočienė (born 1970 ), an international judge ( EMRG )
  • Jonas Misiunas ( born 1933), President of the Court sowjetlitauischen
  • Remigijus Šimašius ( b. 1974 ), Minister of Justice, President of the Institute for the free market, the Seimas Member
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