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Scholars of VU Faculty of Law published book „Legal Developments during 30 Years of Lithuanian Independence”

International publisher “Springer” has published a book written by Vilnius University Faculty of Law scholars „Legal Developments during 30 Years of Lithuanian Independence”.

This book provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990. The respective 4 chapters discuss changes in fields varying from the constitutional framework to criminal law and procedure.

The content highlights four major aspects of the fundamental changes that have affected the entire legal system: the Post-Soviet country’s complex historical heritage; socio-political and other conditions in the process of adopting new (rule of law) standards; international legal influences on the national legal order over the past 30 years; and finally, the search for entirely new national legal models.