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Galginaitis / heaven / Vrubliauskaite: Introduction to the Lithuanian law

Juozas Galginaitis, Antje kingdom of heaven, Ruta Vrubliauskaité (ed.): Introduction to the Lithuanian law. BWV Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2010, 318 pages, ISBN 978-3-8305-1776-4 . 39.00 €

Publisher Info.
Since Lithuania's accession to the European Union on 1.5.2004 are already more than five years have passed. In the "old Europe" have many long accustomed to the new conditions, so that the difficult Transformation processes that Lithuania had to go through, have come from the perspective of the Western neighbors already in the background. A deeper examination of the Lithuanian legal system, however, shows that it is characterized by very different traditions and simultaneously part of many modern development currents. For example, deserves, given the discussion of the further harmonization of European civil law, the recodification of the Lithuanian civil law after the turn of the century interest. With all the problems remain of profound social and economic transformation process further, tangible.
The initiative for the present work was under the program "Law in the Baltic Sea Region", which the Law Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service conducted in 2002/2003. Under this program, several guest lecturers were invited to lecture in Kiel, so also the co-editor of this volume, Prof. Dr. Juozas Galginaitis. From these humble beginnings, the project of this volume, who worked on the next Lithuanian several German authors.
The book gives a comprehensive insight into the Lithuanian law. It contains, preceded by an overview of the basics of the Lithuanian Law, information on key areas of private law, public law and criminal law of Lithuania. Focus on the business law and the international implications of the legal system of Lithuania. The band wants to open a German-speaking readers access to the law of Lithuania. It is aimed at anyone interested in the development of law in Lithuania or are involved in practice with the law of Lithuania.

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