The Little Diet which makes a significant episode in the history of Lithuanian parliamentarism was established by the Constituent Assembly on 22 October 1920 after the country was exposed to the danger of the Polish ...

Composed in 1917 State Council of Lithuania was a public institution, which neither performed governing functions nor did it undertake the functions of public affairs management. Occupational German government recognised ...

Various inaccuracies, mistakes and debatable opinions concerning the first Constitutional Acts of the Lithuanian State of 1918-1920 are dealt with in the article. The most important shortcomings of this kind the author ...

The article describes the development of law history studies in Lithuania during the period from its very beginning in the 19th century at the Vilnius University, one of the oldest universities in the Eastern Europe, until ...

Referring to unpublished archival material and some other sources, the article describes the circumstances of the foundation and liquidation of The Commission of Legal Advisors of Ministries, its legal standing and the ...

Further to recent investigations into archive materials, this article seeks to update the notion of Lithuanian legal literature, stating that during the period between the two World Wars the constitutional jurisprudence ...

The article analyses the importance of the Coalition of central parties, which was active during the period of drafting the Constitution of 1922, and its influence to the content of the Constitution. This Coalition integrated ...

This article is dedicated for commemoration of the 140 year birth anniversary of the famous Lithuanian lawyer – Professor Antanas Kirščiukaitis. A. Kriščiukaitis (1864-1933) belonged to the old generation of Lithuanian ...

Although short, the three-year membership of M. Romeris in the State Council, a high constitutional institution of Lithuania established in 1928, is often referred to by the biographers as an important page of his life. ...

The Constitution of Lithuania of 1922 has established a state ruling system that guaranteed a clear hegemony of the parliament and the subordination of the executive institutions (the President and the Cabinet of Ministers) ...