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After the LCSS Institute of Law won the Lithuanian Research Council's competitive PhD studentship, Vilnius University and the Institute of Law have agreed to jointly conduct doctoral studies of social sciences in the field of law (01S).
The topic of the dissertation is "Facial recognition technologies in the activities of state public institutions and human rights in the European Union".
Doctoral supervisor - Dr Monika Žalnieriūtė
Doctoral student - Monika Šukytė
We are happy to welcome a new PhD student at the Institute of Law!
More information about the PhD course.
Photo by T.Hermans (unsplash)
The Lithuanian Science Prize Commission announces the submissions for the 2023 Lithuanian Science Prize competition, including Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis series of works „Modern Measures of Confiscation of Criminal Assets“.
The accumulation of wealth by organised and other criminals gives them power, and the imumunity of wealth encourages crime. At the end of the 20th century, there was a growing realisation in Europe that new and more effective means had to be found to make crime unprofitable and to undermine the power of organised criminals. Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis, a researcher at the Institute of Law of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, has also been involved in this search for modern confiscation measures with his series of papers on „Modern Measures of Confiscation of Criminal Assets“. Since 2012, the researcher has published the results of his research in two monographs, a scientific study and eleven articles. Systematic research on confiscation strategies is not limited to criminal law, but also includes civil and tax law, S. Bikelis also researches instruments of a mixed nature. Bikelis research has contributed significantly to the theoretical basis, drafting and adoption in 2020 of the Civil Confiscation of Assets Act, on the basis of which proceedings are already underway for the confiscation of high-value assets obtained through criminal means.
We are proud of our colleague!
More information on Lithuanian Science Prize competition.
This summer on 18-20 August DEMISTIFY – Criminology Festival took place. The researchers from LCSS Law of Institute attended the festival. One of them, Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis, presented the topic "How much truth is there in the legend that the Lithuanian Criminal Code was prepared by using German Criminal Code?" and debunked myths.
The audience, which was seated on hay cubes and gathered around Dr. Bikelis, was presented with a number of issues that are fundamentally different in Lithuanian and German criminal law (which disproves the legend): the regulation of fines, the liability for endangerment, theft, drug distribution and a completely different approach to the discretion of judges.
Photos by DEMISTIFY.
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Two researchers from the LCSS Institute of Law attended the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology in Florence. EUROCRIM'23 was attended by Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis and Dr. Simonas Nikartas.
In his presentation, Dr. Nikartas discussed aspects of the commercialisation of sentences through electronic monitoring of offenders. As an example of the mass application of electronic monitoring, the presentation examined the case of Lithuania, where, following the adoption of amendments to the Criminal Code in 2019, intensive supervision with electronic monitoring is mandatory for all probationers and a large proportion of those convicted of other community sanctions as a sentence of restriction of liberty.
Dr. Bikelis in his presentation „Prosecution of Money Laundering in Lithuania: The Purpose and The Reality“ presented the initial results of the Lithuanian Academic Council funded research group project LEKOSTRA. The results unfortunately show that the aspirations and the reality of prosecuting asset laundering are very different.
Nuotraukos autorius - prof. Aleksandras Dobryninas.
LCSS Institute of Law researcher Dr Mindaugas Lankauskas together with his colleague Matas Tamošaitis, have launched a podcast „Criminology Album” on LRT Radio. Every Friday, criminologists will discuss relevant issues and raise interesting questions. We invite you to listen to the discussion of the first podcast.
We are happy and proud of our criminologists!
Dr Agnė Limantė, Chief Researcher at the Legal System Research Department of the Law Institute of the LCSS, has been selected by the Research Council of Lithuania as a member of the Committee of Experts in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities for a 5-year term of office. Congratulations to our colleague!
More information about the committee: https://www.lmt.lt/lt/apie-taryba/kontaktai/86/humanitariniu-ir-socialiniu-mokslu-komitetas/d3
On May 29 "Emerging law enforcement technologies and society" conference was held. During the conference, two projects were presented - DARLENE and project of LCSS researchers team Faces-AI.
The conference was attended by law enforcement institutions, representatives of the academic community, IT specialists, human rights and protection organizations.
We share moments from the conference (Photos taken by Lithuanian Police).
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A book chapter written by Dr Agnė Limante, Senior Research Fellow at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, and Kristina Pranevičienė, lecturer at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University, has been published in the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law published by the prestigious publishing house "Springer".
The chapter "Division of Property Between Spouses in Lithuania: From Substantive to Private International Law" focuses on the division of matrimonial property between spouses in national and private international law of Lithuania. Analysing the case law, the authors discuss the peculiarities of property division between spouses in Lithuania and disclose the challenging application of national private international law in more complicated cross-border situations.
For more info see: Pranevičienė, K., Limantė, A. (2023). Division of Property Between Spouses in Lithuania: From Substantive to Private International Law. In: Kunda, I., Meškić, Z., Omerović, E., Popović, D.V. (eds) Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law 2022. Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law, vol 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29432-7_3.
The European Society of Criminology's Community Sanctions and Measures (CSM) Working Group Research Conference was held from April 20-21, 2023. The conference was organized by the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (LCSS), with Dr. Simonas Nikartas serving as project leader, as well as the CSM working group and the Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University.
Researchers from the working group and Lithuanian criminologists presented their latest studies related to community punishment sanctions and measures. The CSM Working Group members also discussed their future plans and cooperation in future research projects.
The conference was funded by the Research Council of Lithuania and aimed to promote the dissemination of Lithuanian criminological science and strengthen international relations among Lithuanian criminologists.
Few moments:
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