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Referring to unpublished archival material and some other sources, the article describes the circumstances of the foundation and liquidation of The Commission of Legal Advisors of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

Due to the situation observed during the inter-war period in Lithuania when the review (adjustment or amendment) of constitution without observing the established rules has become a peculiar miserable tradition, this ...

Lithuanian legal terminology and professional legal language started developing together with the re-establishment of statehood of Lithuania in 1918 meeting the requirements of a national state. In the Great Duchy of ...

This article reveals the tools for realization of the independence by the Lithuanian Council upon declaration of independence of Lithuania in 1918, i.e. the institutionalization of it with a purpose to take over the state ...