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 ...

Referring to unpublished archival material and some other sources, the article describes the circumstances of the foundation and liquidation of The Commission of Legal Advisors of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

The article is devoted to describe the parted, converged and anewed lives and work of famous lawyers and professors of Lithuania, namely A. Kriščiukaitis and P. Leonas. Born in 1864, A. Kriščiukaitis and P. Leonas met each ...

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) ...

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 ...

A temporary law of Courts of Lithuania and their work order promulgated in 1918 determined the three level court system with no cassation, where the decisions of the appeal as the higher court level were considered as ...

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 ...

The formation of national law in the recovered state of Lithuania in 1918 was started by using foreign sources of law that had been implemented by occupants prior to the First World War. The most important object of ...

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 ...

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 ...