- Egidijus Kūris
Egidijus Kūris (born in 1961
Vilnius ,Lithuania ) is aLithuania nprofessor andPhD inlaw , former President of theConstitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania .Egidijus Kūris graduated from the Faculty of Law in
Vilnius University in 1984, where he continued to work as a lecturer until 1994. Egidijus Kūris defended hisdoctoral thesis in 1988. After Lithuania regained independence, Kūris worked on preparation of theConstitution of Lithuania , adopted in 1992 after thereferendum . During the same year Egidijus Kūris became Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University; he held this position until 1999. From 1993 till 1997 he also worked as an Assistant to the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania. Egidijus Kūris became a Justice of the Constitutional Court in 1999 and the President of the Constitutional Court in 2002; he served in this position till 2008-03-21 and was replaced byKęstutis Lapinskas .Egidijus Kūris father,
Pranas Kūris , serves as Judge ofEuropean Court of Justice andEuropean Court of Human Rights .Recent publications
*Judges as Guardians of the Constitution: "Strict" or "Liberal" Interpretation, in E. Smith (ed.). Old and New Constitutions: The Constitution as Instrument of Change. Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 2003.
*The Constitutional Court of Lithuania and the Death Penalty, in Revue de justice constitutionelle est-européene, 2003, numéro spécial.
*Constitutional Justice in Lithuania. Vilnius: The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, 2003.
*Konstitucijos aiškinimas, konstitucinės teisės šaltiniai ir besikeičianti konstitucinės teisės paradigma, in Teisės problemos, 2003, Nr. 3.
*Limits of the Realization of the Human Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of the *Republic of Lithuania, in G. Harutyunyan (ed.). Constitutional Justice in the New Millennium. Yerevan, 2003.ee also
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Law of Lithuania External links
*en icon [http://www.lrkt.lt/Information1_e.html The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania]
*lt icon [http://www.moteris.lt/98rugsej/vyrai/vyraiapi.htm Interview in 1998]
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