Pranas Kuris
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Lithuania
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n lawyer
Lawyer
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. He is the first representative of Lithuania in the European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice
The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of 13 judges, or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sitting are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges...
and European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
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Pranas Kūris has graduated the Law Faculty of Vilnius University
Vilnius University
Vilnius University is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Eastern Europe. It is also the largest university in Lithuania....
in 1961 and has worked as a lecturer in the Department of the International and European Union Law
European Union law
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of the Faculty.
He worked in the field of International public law. He was People's Minister of Justice of Lithuanian SSR
Lithuanian SSR
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Lithuanian SSR, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union...
from 1977 to 1990.
Pranas Kūris was appointed as a judge from Lithuania to the European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice
The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of 13 judges, or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sitting are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges...
in 2004. Pranas Kūris son, Egidijus Kūris
Egidijus Kuris
Egidijus Kūris is a Lithuanian professor and PhD in law, former President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania....
has been the President of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court.
See also
- Law of LithuaniaLaw of LithuaniaLithuanian law is a part of the legal system of Lithuania. It belongs to the civil law legal system, as opposed to the common law legal system.The legal system of Lithuania is based on epitomes of the French and German systems...
- Danutė JočienėDanute JocieneDanutė Jočienė is a Lithuanian lawyer. She is the second representative of Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights to date and the youngest judge in the Court's history .Danutė Jočienė graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius...
- Egidijus KūrisEgidijus KurisEgidijus Kūris is a Lithuanian professor and PhD in law, former President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania....