Egidijus Kūris is a Lithuania

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 and PhD

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 in law

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, former President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania

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Egidijus Kūris graduated from the Faculty of Law in Vilnius University

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 in 1984, where he continued to work as a lecturer until 1994. Egidijus Kūris defended his doctoral thesis in 1988. After Lithuania regained independence, Kūris worked on preparation of the Constitution of Lithuania

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, adopted in 1992 after the referendum

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. 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 by Kęstutis Lapinskas

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Egidijus Kūris father, Pranas Kūris

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, serves as Judge of European Court of Justice

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 and European Court of Human Rights

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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.

External links

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania Interview in 1998