Dr. Laurynas Biekša
Attorney at Law
Dr. Laurynas Biekša has been a practicing lawyer for over 20 years, his main specialization is asylum law, migration and European Convention on Human Rights cases. As a lawyer, he has achieved important successes in the Constitutional Court, the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is also a legal scholar, associate professor at the Institute of International and European Union Law of Mykolas Romeris University, and has written a number of scientific publications, especially in the field of asylum law. Laurynas is a former judge of the Court of Honor of the Bar Association and a member of the Revision Commission of the Bar Association, and co-author of the book "Law of the Bar Association".
Laurynas Biekša also participates in various international and national research in the fields of migration and human rights, lectures and conducts trainings both in Lithuania and abroad. Laurynas himself defended his dissertation on the problematics of applying the concept of refugee, and he also supervised the dissertation research of Aistė Račkauskaitė-Burneikienė “Linguistic guarantees of persons belonging to national minorities: implementation of international standards in the Republic of Lithuania” and the dissertation research of Ilona Šaltė “Problems of legal regulation of the return of illegally staying foreigners: non-refoulement principle and the return of foreigners” and is supervising Monika Dumbrytė-Ožiūnienė’s dissertation research “The Right to a Fair Trial in Administrative Proceedings: Issues of the Application of Standards Enshrined in International Human Rights Documents in the Administrative Proceedings of the Republic of Lithuania”.
Languages:
- Lithuanian
- English
- Russian
- Asylum law
- Migration law
- European Convention on Human Rights cases
- Citizenship issues
- Civil disputes
- Labor law
- Family law
- Contract law
Education:
- 2000 Vilnius University, Faculty of Law, Law specialization degree
- 2001 Riga Graduate School of Law, Master of Laws degree in International and European Union Law
- 2008 Mykolas Romeris University, Doctor of Laws
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