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VMU Faculty of Law is one o the most modern and fastest growing academic institutions of legal education in Lithuania. The faculty has around 1000 students, the staff is comprised of the highest quality specialists of law from Lithuania and all over the world. Studies are conducted by using modern interactive methods of education, students reach the excellence in the fluency of legal English. The faculty offers over 50 different courses in legal and interdisciplinary fields, the basic part is taught by the experts of Lithuanian law, while most of the electives – by the foreign specialists of law. The faculty has the cooperation and exchange agreements with many of the foreign academic institutions, students have perfect possibilities to spend part of their studies abroad, international summer schools are organized, students with impeccable behavior during their studies receive the Michigan State University certificate in Transnational Law. The alumni of the VMU Faculty of Law are not only successful in being employed in the basic legal professions in Lithuania, but also are very competitive in the international sphere.

IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION TO LAW: PROCEDURAL LAW FROM A CROSS-BORDER PERSPECTIVE

It is still rather common for procedural law to be enclosed in the framework and tradition of national regulation and law. This field of regulation appears to be the matter of the “vernacular language” of law.

However, the tendencies or even necessities of a more universal approach in this sphere are becoming more and more evident in specific areas of procedural law, for example, in regulations relating to jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters, the development of the new forms of ADR processes, or widening the scope of the jurisdiction of the ICJ. At the European level, the topic of the harmonisation of civil procedure constantly attracts the attention of scholars, politicians and legal practitioners making the creation of a European law of civil procedure a more and more realistic endeavour. Even any given separate national legal system in this field already cannot escape globalisation driven by cross-border influences.

Legal practitioners and scholars conducting research in the field of law as well as in related interdisciplinary fields are invited to present their research and insights on the procedural law influenced by globalisation in the conference Impact of Globalization to Law: Procedural Law from a Cross-Border Perspective to be held on the 25^th of April, 2014.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

GOOD MORALS OF A LAWYER: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

The focus of the conference is not only the special field of the professional responsibility of a lawyer, but also the wider scope of the responsibility related to the facet of good morals. What is the relationship between those two fields – professional responsibility and good morals? What is encompassed by the term “good morals”? Is it necessary to regulate two fields separately, as it is sometimes done in the US (having in mind codes like those of civility besides the codes of professional responsibility), or must both fields be covered by a unified regulation? How should apparently immoral conduct affect the possibilities of a person to participate in a legal profession? These and other theoretical and practical issues related to the concept of good morals of a lawyer are the focus of the upcoming conference.

Legal practitioners and scholars conducting research in the field of law (as well as in related interdisciplinary fields) are invited to participate in the event.

This event is organized in cooperation with the Research Council of Lithuania (contract No. MIP-0202012).

DATES AND VENUE

Date: 8th of May, 2013.

Venue: S. Daukanto str. 28, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Registration of participants: 9.30 – 10.00 a.m.

Opening of the conference: 10.00 a.m.

Closing of the conference: 15.00 p.m.

Conference Program

THE PUBLICATION OF THE BALTIC JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICS HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE GERMAN COMPANY DE GRUYTER

It is a pleasure to announce that, starting from 2012, the scholarly journal Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, jointly owned and edited by the VMU Faculties of Law and Political Science and Diplomacy, is being published by the German academic publishing house De Gruyter (http://www.degruyter.com/) while continuing the cooperation with the Polish company Versita. It is expected that the experience of De Gruyter in the dissemination of the scholarly production and cooperation with the international abstracting and indexing services will have a positive impact on the international accessibility and recognition of the Journal.

NEW BOOK FROM THE VMU FACULTY OF LAW — INTRODUCTION TO LITHUANIAN LAW

VMU Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the publication of a new book — Introduction to Lithuanian Law. It is first publication of this kind in Lithuania and the world, and also a significant achievement and outcome of the long and collective work of the scholarly team of the VMU Faculty of Law.