Lithuanian Institute of Law
The Lithuanian Institute of Law ( Lithuanian Lietuvos teisės institutas ) is a state scientific (research) institution founded on the initiative of the Lithuanian government in 1991 to coordinate the reform of the legal system and the judicial institutions in Lithuania , them with the economic and social Restructuring the country to join. The founder of the institute is the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania . The institute's direction is Public Law and Criminology . In 2008 there were 35 employees.
aims
The main objectives of the institute are to contribute to the creation of the scientific basis for the reform of Lithuanian law and the legal system and its individual elements on the basis of national experience and the achievements of European legal development, to contribute to the protection of human rights and the Fundamental freedoms through the development of national scientific studies as well as for scientific applied research in the field of law and the legal system, through legal measures to create favorable framework conditions for the economy. The most important research areas in the institute are as follows: public law (focus: problems of constitutional and criminal law) and criminology (problems of children's rights protection and youth rights).
Functions
The institute performs the following functions:
- conducts applied scientific research on the legal system;
- prepares the legal and criminological opinions of laws and other legal acts as well as their drafts;
- collects, analyzes, systematizes and presents legal and criminological information to state institutions;
- publishes research results and methodological publications;
- participates in the training of lawyers and in the legal education of society;
- participates in the drafting of draft laws and drafts of other legal acts.
history
After Lithuania regained national independence, the Teismo ekspertizės mokslinio tyrimo institutas (TEI, German Institute for Forensic Research ), which was founded in the Soviet era, was reorganized.
On November 23, 1991, Teisės institutas was established . As of November 30, 1991, the activity of the Valstybinės teisinės informacijos departamentas prie Teisingumo ministerijos . Three specialized departments were established in the institute (one for criminological research, one for comparative law and one for legal information).
In 1993, the tasks of the Legal Information Department were transferred to the newly established Center of the Ministry of Justice ( Teisinės informacijos centras , TIC). Then a library was set up in the institute and there were 4 specialized departments (one for private law research, one for constitutional and international law research , one for criminological research and an information methodology department).
From 1993 the institute publishes the legal journal " Teisės problemos ". In 1995 the collection of historical legal sources "Lietuvos valstybės teisės aktai" (published 1996) and the commentary on the Lithuanian Constitution (editor in charge Karolis Jovaišas) were made.
From 2005 to 2008, 52 researches (38 national and 14 international) were carried out.
structure
The institute is divided into the following departments:
- Department for Criminological Research (with the Section for Child and Youth Law )
- Legal System Research Department
- Department of Criminal Justice Research
- International Relations Department
- Department of Publishing and General Affairs (journal " Teisės problemos " dt. "Legal problems").
Board
- Chair: Ingrida Mačernytė-Panomariovienė
- Secretary: Laura Ūselė
- Other members: Svetlana Justickaja, Algimantas Čepas, Aušra Pocienė, Skirmantas Bikelis, Salomėja Zaksaitė and, based on the decision of the Lithuanian Minister of Justice , appointed Gytis Andriulionis (Vice Minister of Justice) and Paulius Griciūnas (official from the Ministry of Justice).
administration
- Directors
- 1991–1992 : Juozas Galginaitis (Vice-Rector of the University of Vilnius )
- 1992 -2002: Antanas DAPSYS
- 2002-2009 : Algimantas Čepas
- 2009–2010: Petras Ragauskas
- July 2010 - 2013: Algimantas Čepas
- 2013: Margarita Dobrynina
- 2013: Algimantas Čepas
- since 2014: Jurgita Paužaitė-Kulvinskienė
Employee
- Former Employees
- Vytautas Andriulis (1937–2017), legal historian, professor
- Genovaitė Babachinaitė (* 1944), criminologist
- Darijus Beinoravičius (* 1974), legal philosopher
- Aurelijus Gutauskas (* 1972), criminal lawyer, judge of the Supreme Court
- Raimundas Jurka (* 1978), criminal procedure lawyer
- Vaida Urmonaitė-Maculevičienė (* 1958), judge
- Alfonsas Vaišvila (* 1942), legal philosopher, professor
- Justinas Žilinskas (* 1974), professor, poet lawyer, writer (dreamer), children's author
- Gintaras Goda (* 1965), constitutional judge
- Danutė Jočienė (* 1970), constitutional judge, EMRG judge
- Jonas Misiūnas (* 1933), President of the Soviet Lithuanian Court of Justice
- Remigijus Šimašius (* 1974), politician, mayor of Vilnius, former Minister of Justice and Seimas member as well as President of the Free Market Institute
- Salomėja Zaksaitė (* 1985), chess player, sports criminal lawyer and criminologist
See also
Web links
- Institute website (English, Lithuanian)
swell
- ↑ Dėl teisingumo ministro 2003 m. balandžio 14 d. įsakymo No. 102 "Dėl Teisės instituto įstatų patvirtinimo" pakeitimo ( LR TM ministro įsakymas)
- ^ LRV nutarimas Dėl Teisės instituto risimo
- ↑ Vytautas Andriulis , Aldona Bentkuvienė. Teisės instituto mokslininkų darbų bibliografija. Teisingumo ministerija , Teisės institutas, 2002, Vilnius. 5-10 psl.
- ↑ "P. Ragauskas pradėjo vadovauti Teisės institutui “ ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. lrytas.lt, January 19, 2009, 11:05 a.m.
- ↑ Čepas pradėjo eiti Teisės instituto direktoriaus pareigas (alfa.lt, July 2, 2010, 3:53 p.m.)
