Legal education in Lithuania

Katažyna Mikša

doi:10.25167/osap.1229

Legal education in Lithuania

Katažyna Mikša

Faculty of Law, Institute of International and European Union Law, Mykolas Romeris University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1229

Abstract

The paper analyzes the system of legal education in Lithuania. It provides a short historical overview and recent developments in this area. On the one hand, higher education institutions try to implement main goals of the Bologna Process and to provide two-cycle studies in the field of law. On the other hand, there are still very strong ties to the traditional one-stage model of legal studies. Thus, universities try to combine both these models and offer both two-stage and one-stage studies. In such a situation students are given an opportunity to choose the model they prefer. The paper gives an insight into the programs of studies offered by the universities in Lithuania. The last thing discussed in the article is the issue of securing quality of legal studies.

Keywords:

legal education, study programs, Lithuania

References

Lietuvos Respublikos Konstitucija, adopted by the referendum on 25 October in 1992.
Google Scholar

Lietuvos Respublikos Mokslo ir studijø ástatymas, 1991 m. vasario 12 d. Nr. I-1052.
Google Scholar

Lietuvos Respublikos Mokslo ir studijø ástatymas, 2009 balandzio 30 d., Nr. XI-242.
Google Scholar

Government of the Republic of Lithuania Resolution on the approval of the description of the qualification framework of 4 May 2010, No. 535.
Google Scholar

Bilevièiûtë, E., Èizikienë, J., Legal education system in Lithuania: nowadays & new challenges, Social media : challenges and opportunities for education in modern society : research papers = Socialinës medijos : iððûkiai ir galimybës suaugusiøjø ðvietimui. Vilnius : Mykolas Romeris University, Vol. 1, No 1, 2013, P. 19.
Google Scholar

Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education: http://www.skvc.lt/default/en/educationin-lithuania/higher#soviet [retrieved 2016.12.04].
Google Scholar

Descriptors defining levels in The Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher EducationArea https://ec.europa.eu/ploteus/content/descriptors-page. [retrieved 2016.12.07].
Google Scholar

Mykolas Romeris University: http://www.mruni.eu/en/current_students/quality_of_studies/mru_legislation_regulating_internal_system_for_studies_quality_management/ [retrieved 2016.12.07].
Google Scholar

Statistics are provided by the Association of Lithuanian Higher Institutions LAMA BPO: http://www.lamabpo.lt/bendrojo-priemimo-rezultatai/2016#1132 [retrieved 2016.12.04].
Google Scholar

Vilnius university Faculty of Law information: http://www.tf.vu.lt/en/about-the-faculty/history [retrieved 2016.12.04].
Google Scholar

Vilnius University: http://www.vu.lt/studijos/studiju-kokybe; [retrieved 2016.12.07].
Google Scholar

Download

Published

2017-12-10

Cited by

Mikša, K. (2017). Legal education in Lithuania. The Opole Studies in Administration and Law, 15(4), 9–19. https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1229

Authors

Katažyna Mikša

Statistics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

License

Author’s economic rights to published works are held by Opole University (collective works) and individual Authors (individual parts of the collective work, ones that form a separate entity).

The journal Opole Studies in Administration and Law accepts for publication only works which have not been in circulation before.

On the basis of the Regulation (2016/679) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (referred to as General Data Protection Regulation or RODO) Opole University, based at 11a Plac Kopernika, 45-040 Opole, is the personal data controller for all the authors publishing their works in the Opole Studies in Administration and Law.

The articles published in Opole Studies in Administration and Law are available under a licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).