We are pleased to invite you to the annual international conference “Trends and Challenges in European and National Criminal Policy”, which will take place on 17 April 2026. The conference is organized by the Law Institute of the LCSS together with the Faculties of Law of three Lithuanian universities – Vytautas Magnus University, Mykolas Romeris University, and Vilnius University. The main focus of the event will be on current issues of criminal policy and its contemporary trends in the European Union and Lithuania.

Conference Date – 17 April 2026 (Friday), preliminarily from 9:00 to 16:30.

Conference Venue – The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania, Gedimino ave. 30, Vilnius (Conference Hall, 4th floor).

Event Programme. Conference languages: English (Session 1) and Lithuanian (Sessions 2–3).

Participant registration is available online. If you have registered but are unable to attend, please let us know. Registered participants will have the opportunity to receive participant certificates.

For more information: karolina.vysockyte@teise.org

Organizing committee of the conference:

• Dr Skirmantas Bikelis (Chair), Law Institute of the Lithuanian Social Research Centre (e-mail: skirmantas.bikelis@teise.org);
• Prof. Dr Edita Gruodytė, Faculty of Law, Vytautas Magnus University;
• Prof. Dr Jolanta Zajančkauskienė, Law School, Mykolas Romeris University;
• Assoc. Prof. Dr Ilona Michailovič, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University.