Dr. Ilona Šaltė
Attorney at Law
Dr. Ilona Šaltė has more than 15 years of legal experience in law firms. For the past 13 years, she has specialized in international and European Union law, with a particular focus on human rights, migration and asylum law. She has achieved important successes while representing clients at the European Court of Human Rights (T. K. and others v. Lithuania No. 55978/20 and L. B. v. Lithuania No. 38121/20), the Supreme Court of Lithuania (criminal case No. 2K-217-628/2021), where the courts have developed significant practice on asylum law issues. Attorney Ilona Šaltė was also part of the international expert team that represented the applicants in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. C.O.C.G and Others v. Lithuania No. 17764/22, which addresses the extremely important issue of migrant return. In addition to the aforementioned cases in the field of migration law, Ilona Šaltė has gained extensive experience in representing clients in various other legal matters during her long-term work practice: family law, labor law, inheritance law, contract law, etc.
In addition to legal practice, Ilona Šaltė is engaged in scientific activities. She teaches public international law, international human rights law, migration and refugee law at the Institute of International and European Union Law of the Lithuanian University of Law. In the field of international migration law, she has defended her dissertation on the topic "Problems of legal regulation of the return of illegally staying foreigners: non-refoulement principle and the return of foreigners". For the best 2022/2023 dissertation in the field of law, she was awarded the Kazimieras Motiekas Foundation scholarship. Ilona Šaltė also participates in various international and national research in the fields of migration and human rights, and conducts training both in Lithuania and abroad.
Languages:
- Lithuanian
- English
- Migration law
- Asylum law
- International protection of human rights
- Naturalization and citizenship
- Labor law
- Administrative law
- Inheritance law
- Contract law
- Family law
Education:
- 2010 Mykolas Romeris University, Law Program, Bachelor of Laws degree
- 2012 Mykolas Romeris University, European Union Law Program, Master of Laws degree
- 2023 Mykolas Romeris University, Doctoral Degree in Law
Publications:
▪ „Substitute impact assessment: Proposal for a regulation addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum”. Sergio Carrera, Davide Colombi, Giuseppe Campesi, Matteo Gori, Danilo Bianchini, Raphael Joshua Lorenter, Iker Barbero, Maria Cristina Risoli, Tihomir Bezlov, Laurynas Bieksa, Alexandra Geraki Trimi, Marta Gorczynska, Eleni Karageorgiou, Atanas Rusev, Ilona Salte, Malgorzata Szuleka, Brussels: European Parliamentary Research Service, 2023. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)753156
▪ „Problems of legal regulation of the return of illegally staying aliens: the principle of non-refoulement and the return of aliens”, Ilona Šaltė. Doctoral dissertation, Vilnius: Mykolas Romeris University, 2023. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)753156
▪ Lithuanian Constitutional Law Textbook, Chapter IX "Legal status of foreigners in the Republic of Lithuania", Inga Daukšienė and Ilona Šaltė. Lithuanian Constitutional Law, authors' collective 301-328. Vilnius: Mykolas Romeris University, 2022. https://cris.mruni.eu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f02bf373-50a9-4e91-b79c-a07232fa142c/content
▪ „Lithuania's reaction to the influx of asylum seekers in the context of international and European Union law", Laurynas Biekša and Ilona Ivašauskaitė. Lithuanian Law 2021: Fundamental Changes (2021):156-167. https://cris.mruni.eu/server/api/core/bitstreams/c267dbaa-e4f5-4631-b2e4-d67cdaa73f78/content
▪ „Searching for country of origin information and its use in asylum cases”, Laurynas Biekša, Ilona Ivašauskaitė and Eglė Samuchovaitė. Jurisprudence 25, 1 (2018): 115-132. https://cris.mruni.eu/server/api/core/bitstreams/1bece561-49cf-42f0-8be7-2c88a08f3a1d/content
▪ „Evaluation of the implementation of the integration policy for foreigners granted asylum and monitoring of integration processes”, Laurynas Biekša, Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Ilona Ivašauskaitė, Vilana Pilinkaitė, Egdūnas Račius, Karolis Žibas. Research report, LSTC Institute of Ethnic Research, 2018.
▪ „Strategic Document on the Integration Policy for Foreigners Granted Asylum“, Laurynas Biekša, Ilona Ivašauskaitė, Vilana Pilinkaitė, Karolis Žibas. Report, Institute for Ethnic Studies of LSRC, 2016.
▪ „Study on Return and Removal of Third-Country Nationals“, Laurynas Biekša, Ilona Ivašauskaitė ir Eglė Samuchovaitė. National Report, Lithuanian Red Cross, Vilnius, 2015.
TEAM:
Dr. Laurynas Biekša
Attorney at Law
Jelena Cvirko
Attorney at Law
Rita Balsevičė
Attorney at Law
Valdas Kavaliauskas
Associate