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January 26th, Bachelor‘s and Master‘s diplomas were served to Kazimieras Simonavičius University graduates: 17th Law Masters and 2nd international Business Law Bachelors, 1st Entrepreneurship and management Bachelors, 2nd Creative and Cultural Industries Bachelors, 1st Fashion Industry Bachelors, 1st Entertainment and tourism industries Bachelors, 1st Political Communication and journalism Bachelors.
The graduates were congratulated by KSU Rector Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, Law Faculty Dean Dr. Aida Kišūnaitė, Business School lecturer Dr. Austė Kiškienė, Creative Society and Economy Institute director Assoc. Prof. Dr. Remigijus Venckus, Head of Economic Linguistics Cathedral Prof. Dr. Elena Jolanta Zabarskaitė and Creative and Cultural Industries graduate Olesia Kazoit.
On December 1st the international workshop “Achieving Progress in Children’s Welfare: Interdisciplinary and Multilevel Governance Perspectives” took place at Vilnius City Municipality. The workshop was organized by Kazimieras Simonavičius University Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Children Rights and Children’s day centre “Navininkai”.
This workshop aimed to address the question of an interdisciplinary approach in children’s rights related policies and their implementation in order to promote the idea and the role of inter-institutional cooperation for children’s welfare at all levels of governance.
More than 100 specialists from various public institutions and NGOs participated in the workshop. The presentations were made by Ombudsperson for Children’s Rights of the Republic of Lithuania Dr. Edita Žiobienė and 12 scholars and practitioners from Lithuania and foreign countries:
Presenting the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Children Rights which was established on July, Dr. Aida Kišūnaitė said: “It is important for us, scholars of Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Children Rights, to be heard by legislature and executive institutions because we seek to encourage the complex attitude to children’s rights not only between the members of scholar’s community but also to foster forming researched based politics in the field of children’s rights. The main goal of the international workshop is to attract the attention of society and practitioners towards the implementation of interdisciplinary approach in the field of children’s welfare and to encourage the cooperation between the separate sectors such as social, health, education and legal”.
We kindly invite you to watch the online broadcast of the international conference “Legal regulation of alternative dispute resolution between consumers and businesses: experience of EU and Lithuania” from Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. To watch the broadcast, please press Tiesioginė transliacija anglų kalba.
The conference is organized by Kazimieras Simonavičius University‘s Law Faculty, National Consumer Confederation and Committee of Legal Affairs of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
You can download the programme of the international conference here.
Dr. Marcin Białecki
On November 7th at 12 noon the open lecture of advocate dr. Marcin Białecki (Poland) “Mediation in civil cases. Recent developments in Polish Civil Procedure from theoretical and practical perspective” will be held at Kazimieras Simonavičius University (15 auditorium). Lecture language – English. We kindly invite you to participate!
Some information about the lecturer:
Kazimieras Simonavičius University‘s Law Faculty, National Consumer Confederation and Committee of Legal Affairs of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania organize the international conference “Legal regulation of alternative dispute resolution between consumers and businesses: experience of EU and Lithuania”. The conference will be held on 4th of November at Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (Gedimino av. 53, Constitution Hall – 1st building, Vilnius).
The aim of the conference is to develop international scientific cooperation in the field of legal regulation of alternative dispute resolution between consumers and businesses.
The theory and practice of legal regulation of alternative dispute resolution between consumers and businesses of European Union and Lithuania will be discussed in the conference. Law scholars from foreign countries (United Kingdom, Spain and Poland) will speak in the conference.
You can download the programme of the international conference here.
We kindly invite you to participate in the conference.
Registration:
Registration will be closed on 31st of October at 10 a.m. When registering, please write your name, surname, institution and contact information to jolita.malinauskaite@ksu.lt . We kindly ask you to write also if you would like to get the participation certificate.
NOTE: Please don’t forget to have your ID card or passport with you.
For more information, please call +370 686 25661.
Dean of Law Faculty dr. Aida KišūnaitėDr. Aida Kišūnaitė has been appointed as a new Dean of KSU Law Faculty. Congratulations!
Previously dr. Aida Kišūnaitė was a KSU Law Faculty Vice-dean for studies and research.
Dr. A. Kišūnaitė’s research interests are children’s rights, European Union Law, social and health policies and legal regulations of non-governmental organizations activities.
Dr. A. Kišūnaitė was awarded PhD in “Political systems and institutional change” from IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) in 2012, European Studies Master’s degree from Hamburg University (Germany) in 2010 and the Master of Laws from Vilnius University (Lithuania) in 2006.
As a scientist dr. Aida Kišūnaitė has participated in the research and working groups in the various European institutions.
Publications:
Kišūnaitė A. and Pūras, D., Toward holistic approach to children’s rights. Case study – Lithuanian mental health policy, Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Vol. 18(2), 2016, p. 40-47.
Kišūnaitė, A. Establishing National Human Rights Institution in Lithuania: Theoretical and Practical Lessons, In The Mediterranean Human Rights Review, Issue 2016.
Kišūnaitė, A. Future Perspectives: The Emergence of Postnational Citizenship in Latin America, Alter/nativas, Latin American Cultural Studies Journal (forthcoming).
Pūras, D. and Kišūnaitė, A. Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice in Lithuania: Historical and Critical Review In Adolescent Psychiatry Reviews, Bentham Science Publishers, Vol. 4, 2014, p. 284-292.
Kišūnaitė, A. Participation of social civil society organizations in the Open Method of Coordination: How does it affect European governance and civil society organizations themselves? Case studies: European networks and Lithuanian civil society organizations, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, 2014.
Research:
Favorable environment for children: challenges and opportunities (original title: Palanki aplinka vaikams: iššūkiai ir galimybės) (2013).
Participation of social CSOs in the OMC inclusion: How does it affect European governance and CSOs themselves. Lithuanian case study (2009-2013).
Education as an integration tool of second-generation migrants in the EU. Case study: France and Germany), (2007-2008).
Enlargement as a social policy problem? The pressure on harmonisation of social systems stemming from increased labour and capital mobility within the EU), (2007-2008).
In 2016 KSU has launched two international LL.M degree programmes, which are also open to the legal practitioners who wish to attend just several courses and obtain the post qualification training certificate.
Post qualification training certificate can be obtained within the framework of these Master programmes:
The courses in both LL.M programmes are practice-oriented and cover latest developments, main actual problems and proposed solutions in certain field, and are taught by legal expertise from prestigious European universities such as:
Each course in the programme is taught 4 hours/day and consists of 20 hours (6 ECTS). KSU Law faculty organizes post qualification courses using the module system meaning that each course is taught within one week.
The participant who is interested in obtaining a post qualification certificate can choose to attend one or more courses and is free to choose whether or not he/she will participate in the final exam. In the case the participant chooses to take the final exam, he will be provided with final certificate, which includes the number of earned ECTS (6 ECTS/course) that are recognized at the university level.
Meanwhile if the participant chooses just to attend the course(s)– he/she will be provided with final attendance certificate without ECTS, which is also recognized as post qualification training.
PRICE OF POST QUALIFIKATION TRAINING:
400 EUR per course (attendance of the course and post qualification training certificate).
300 EUR final exam (exam and post qualification training certificate with 6 ECTS).
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 01.09.2016
COURSES FOR POST QUALIFICATION TRAINING
Fall semester 2016
| Courses | LL.M programme | Professor |
| International trade law
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LL.M. IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE AND BUSINESS LAW |
Prof. dr. Makane Mbengue, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| International investment law
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| International contract law
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Prof. dr. Leonila Guglya, Business school Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Alternative dispute resolution
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| Competition Law of the EU |
LL.M IN EUROPEAN UNION LAW AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES |
Prof. dr. Jacques Bourgeois Gent university/College of Europe, Belgium |
| Legal aspects of Europe’s Integration into the Global Economy | Prof. dr. Thomas Bruha, University of Hamburg, Germany | |
| Legal reasoning in the EU law | Dr. Gerard Conway, Brunel law school, Brunel University London, UK |
Prof. dr. Makane Moïse Mbengue is Associate Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. Prof. Mbengue is also a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris (School of Law). He holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the University. He acts as a professor for courses in international law organized by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) and by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Prof. Mbengue acts as counsel in disputes before international courts and tribunals.
Dr. Guglya holds SJD degree, in International Business Law from Central European University (CEU), as well as three graduate level degrees in law, all – with a certain extent of concentration on international commercial law and international dispute settlement issues – from (chronologically) the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine); Central European University (Hungary) and University of Geneva Law School and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland). Dr. Guglya has worked with several international law firms in Ukraine, Belgium and France and carried out a major interdisciplinary international investment arbitration research project at the University of Geneva Law School. Being currently in charge of law and dispute settlement in several academic institutions in Switzerland, Dr. Guglya is an author of a number of publications on international law and dispute settlement topics.
Prof. Dr. Jacques Bourgeois is a counsel in the law firm WilmerHale where he advises on all aspects European Union law, specifically in relation to EU competition matters and international trade law. Mr. Bourgeois has been appointed Chairman of the Competition Commission advising the Belgian government. Mr. Bourgeois is Professor of the College of Europe (Bruges), guest professor at the University of Gent.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bruha is Emeritus professor for European law at the University of Hamburg and the Director of European Integration Foundation of Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. He is one of the leading German legal experts of economic and legal aspects of Europe’s Integration into the world economy.
Prof. Dr. Gerard Conway lectures at Brunel law school and specializes in European constitutional law (European Union and comparative), especially the role and legal reasoning of the European Court of Justice and held a number of visiting positions, most recently iCourts Centre in the Law Faculty of the University of Copenhagen (2015), University of Buckingham, as leader for the course Systems Analysis in International Law (in 2009), and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal law, Freiburg, Germany (2011).
For more information, please contact:
Dr. AidaKišūnaitė
Vice-Dean for Research and Studies,
Law faculty, Kazimieras Simonavičius university
Tel./fax +370 5 213 5172,
E-mail: aida.kisunaite@ksu.lt
KSU’s Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that KSU’s Interdisciplinary Research Center for Children Rights has become a member of The European Network of Masters in Children’s Rights, which brings together universities and other organizations involved in the promotion of the Rights of the Child, through the training of professionals working in the field of childhood.
Dr. Aida KišūnaitėThe Network of Masters in Children’s Rights was founded in September 2004 in Berlin – the initiativee to create ENMCR came from the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean of Save the Children Sweden (SCS) and individuals in Europe devoted to the promotion and realization of children’s rights.
Dr. Aida Kišūnaite, Head of IRCCR, notes that becoming a member of ENMCR, is an important step in IRCCR’s activities and has mutual benefits. IRCCR along with its academic staff and research experience, will contribute to the network by providing the training courses for local professionals working in the field of children’s rights. In addition to that IRCCR will participate in sharing the experiences and knowledge in preparing international research projects, and also in establishing joint courses/modules in children’s rights for the BA and MA students at KSU.