As of 6 January 2026, the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (LCSS) will be led by Dr Dovilė Pūraitė-Andrikienė, who was selected for the position of Deputy Director of the LCSS and Head of the Law Institute following a competitive selection process concluded at the end of 2025.
Dr Pūraitė-Andrikienė has been working as a researcher at the Lithuanian Law Institute, and subsequently at the LCSS Institute of Law, since 2018. Her main research interests include Lithuanian and comparative constitutional law, constitutional justice, human rights, legal protection of vulnerable groups, and European Union law. She has published more than 35 academic works (monographs, research studies, journal articles). A significant number of her publications has appeared in journals indexed in the Web of Science and/or Scopus databases and have been released by internationally recognized publishers. She has also served as the scientific editor of several collective volumes. In addition, Dovilė is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University and, since 2022, a member of the Young Academy of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. From 2023 to 2025, she served as a Science and Innovation Adviser of the Research Council of Lithuania at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania. We warmly congratulate our colleague Dovilė and wish her every success and inspiration in leading the team of legal scholars, as well as in continuing and further developing the Institute’s research activities.
We also express our sincere gratitude to Dr Ingrida Mačernytė-Panomariovienė, who led the LCSS Institute of Law from early 2021. During her tenure, the Institute’s researchers actively conducted research, published articles in international journals, as well as book chapters and monographs with prestigious academic publishers, and participated in national and international projects. We wish Ingrida continued success in her academic pursuits, many inspiring ideas, and meaningful future research endeavours.