During the time when Lithuania was incorporated into Soviet Union there was no opening for objective development of law history science. At the time when academical freedom was abolished, open scientific discussion ...

This article covers the last five years of Professor’s M. Römeris life, coincided with several occupations of Lithuania, which followed one after another during the Second World War. These last five years were marked with ...

The article holds an argument on the matter of constitutional development of reconstituting state of Lithuania in 1918–1920: was the second in row temporary constitutional act of 1919 the new edition of the first act of ...

This article investigates the achievements of the new legal history science and its determining factors during: a) the 1918-1940 independence; b) over fifty years of Soviet times; c) emigration; d) the period of regained ...

The article pictures the professorate and students of Kaunas Vytautas Didysis University that have been transferred to Vilnius University in 1940. Based on certain newly discovered sources, the article describes essential ...

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 ...