Paul Varul

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

Life

Paul Varul graduated from Tartu State University (TRÜ) with a degree in law in 1975 . From 1976 he worked there as a law lecturer. In 1985 he passed his candidate examination ( doctorate ) in Leningrad . After Estonian regained independence, Varul headed the Chair of Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law at the University of Tartu in 1991/92 and was Professor of Civil and Commercial Law from 1992 .

From April 1995 to March 1997, Varul was in the cabinet of Prime Minister Tiit Vähi Minister of Justice of the Republic of Estonia. He then held the same office until 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, Paul Varul played an instrumental role in creating modern Estonian private law . In the first half of the 1990s he worked on the creation of the Estonian bankruptcy law ( Pankrotiseadus , 1992), property law ( Asjaõiguseseadus , 1993), the general part of the civil code ( Tsiviilseadustiku üldosa seadus , 1994), the family law ( Perekonnaseadus , 1994) ) and the Inheritance Act ( Pärimisseadus , 1996) as well as other economic laws and reforms.

Since 1999 Varul has been working as a law teacher and lawyer again. He is a co-owner of a large law firm in Tallinn and Tartu .

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

Web links

• Paul Varul Law Office (Estonian, English, German, Russian)
• CV and list of publications (English)
• European Law Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 589