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Author: Eglė KAVOLIŪNAITĖ-RAGAUSKIENĖ
Topic category: Matrimonial and Family Law
Decisions in public policy are not an end in themselves: in general, they are intended to regulate society, i.e. members of society are submitted with particular rights, obligations, possibilities, restrictions, etc. However, in order to know which decisions will reach their addressees best and will allow attaining the result sought, it is necessary for policy makers to know how the society and particular addressees are ready to accept them. Especially this is acute in the field of family policy: here, the decision on family policy instruments is important and may be effective only when it is accepted by families/individuals (especially speaking about instruments aimed at increase of fertility).
Author: Eglė KAVOLIŪNAITĖ-RAGAUSKIENĖ
Topic category: Matrimonial and Family Law
Despite development in medical sciences, the need of legal system coherence (e.g. the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania contains a reference to a special Law on Assisted Reproduction) and the importance to a great part of the society (in preliminary calculation this problem affects about 15 percent of population), Lithuania has not adopted a law on assisted reproduction yet. Currently, some issues relating the assisted reproduction procedure are regulated by the Order of the Minister of Health of 1999. Six draft laws on this issue with a wide range of proposals on the procedures, accessibility, conditions and provisions relating protection of embryo were prepared by working groups, Parliament committees, the Ministry of Health, etc., however, none of these were adopted due to failure to find a compromise on ethically sensitive issues.
Author: Eglė KAVOLIŪNAITĖ-RAGAUSKIENĖ
Topic category: Matrimonial and Family Law
The article provides a descriptive and systematic approach towards restraints exerted on national family policy by European provisions. The analysis covers two levels (legal acts of European Union and European Convention of Human Rights (the level of Council of Europe). Legal acts are analysed in the following fields: the purpose and context of provisions relating families in accordance with global development of legal family policy, the content of provisions relating families, and the specifics of implementation of the mentioned provisions in the national level.
Author: Gintautas ŠULIJA
Topic category: International Law
This article elucidates the concept of freedom of contract and its application in large international business transactions.
Author: Justinas Žilinskas
Topic category: International Law
The article deals with the classical questions of Hague Law of War, namely but not limited: classic combatant concept, Marten‘s clause and classic understanding of occupatio bellica. The content of these concepts is revealed by looking at travaux preparatoire of the Hague Peace Conferences (1899 and 1907) as well as at normative texts and their subsequent interpretation in legal writings.
Author: Petras RAGAUSKAS
Topic category: Theory of Law, International Law
This article deals with some aspects of amicus curiae, phenomenon which is almost unknown in Lithuanian positive law and its jurisprudence. The article presents the spread of this legal phenomenon (at this stage mostly indirectly by giving examples on its various aspects) and its basic elements in legal systems of different foreign countries as well as in international law.