Questionnaire TASK FORCE 2
Regarding Graduate Programmes
Lithuania
Dr. Tomas Berkmanas
The information required here relates to graduate law degree programmes offered in your
state. However, we also welcome any information you may be aware of about non-law
graduate degree programmes in your state that offer courses covering legal issues.
Section I: State of Regulation
(Information in this section is required by 15 April 2010)
1.1 Legislation and institutions entitled to issue graduate degrees in law
Please provide the name of the legislation and/or regulatory body(s), and a brief description of
the authority over graduate law degree programmes contained in the legislation or held by the
regulatory authority.
Regulatory Body: Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (Parliament)
Brief Description: Regulates the sphere of higher education at the very general level. On the
30th of April, 2009, it adopted new Law on Higher Education and Research (previous act was
called Law on Higher Education and was in force from 2000 until 2009). What concerns
graduate degree programs, articles 46, 47 and 48 (parts 2 and 3) are important. Here graduate
programs are called “the second cycle”/“master’s degree” studies. Relevant extracts of the
Law are provided below:
Article 46. Structure of a system of studies
1. ***. There shall be two types of study programmes: university and college.
2. Studies may be of three cycles:
1) the first cycle – professional bachelor’s, bachelor’s degree studies;
2) the second cycle – master’s degree studies;
3) the third cycle – doctoral studies.
3. ... . Study programmes awarding a degree of the second cycle may be carried out by universities. ...
....
Article 47. Academic years and forms, volume of study programmes
1. Academic years shall be divided into semesters and vacation periods. The senate (academic council) of a higher education institution
shall fix the beginning and end of academic years, semesters, and vacation periods. In summer, students must be provided with continuous
vacations of at least one month’s duration.
2. Studies shall be of continual and extended forms. The description of continual and extended forms of studies shall be approved by the
Minister of Education and Science. Having completed study programmes of different study forms, the acquired education shall be
equivalent.
3. The regular volume of studies of a continual form shall be 60 credits, but not less than 45 credits. The volume of studies of an extended
form for one year must not exceed 45 credits and the total duration of studies of this form must not last one and a half times longer than
studies of a continual form to which a norm of 60 credits is applied.
...
6. The volume of a master’ degree study programme shall constitute not less than 90 credits, but not more than 120 credits.
...
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Article 48. Requirements for study programmes awarding a degree and doctoral studies
...
2. Master’s degree study programmes shall be designed for preparation for independent research (artistic) work or any other work the
performance of which requires scientific knowledge and analytical competence. Master’s degree studies shall be conducted in universities in
which research (artistic) activities corresponding to the study field are carried out. On completion of Master’s degree study programmes
persons shall be awarded a Master’s degree of an appropriate study field. ...
3. The Ministry of Education and Science shall approve general and special requirements (descriptions of a study field, a set of study fields
or a study area) for a study programme of the first cycle, an integrated study programme and a Master’s degree study programme.
Regulatory body: The Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Brief description: on the 4th of October, 2002, this institution has adopted The Qualification
Requirements Of Higher Education In Law For The Persons Who Wish To Hold, Under
Procedure Established By Laws, The Position Of A Judge. This act, besides other things,
provides for the general education requirements for the person who wishes to hold the
position of a judge. They provide that the completion of only graduate legal studies is not
enough to hold the position of a judge; i.e. either both – undergraduate/bachelor and
graduate/master – studies must be completed or the so-called integrated studies must be
completed (see below). Today this requirement is also applied to the position of a prosecutor
and an attorney (for the latter, de facto).
Regulatory body: The Ministry of Education and Science
Brief description: it is the main institution, which regulates or should regulate the sphere of
legal education in a rather specific form (see above, Art. 48, section 3 of the Law on Higher
Education and Research). However, up till now the regulation is done only at the general
level (not related to the specifically legal studies at the graduate level). In 2005, it adopted
The Description of the General Requirements for a Master Study Programs, but it was done
in accordance to Law on Higher Education, valid at that time, but not in force as of today
(however, this Description remains valid today). This act regulates the general requirements
for the graduate studies, divides graduate programmes into two sorts – knowledge-deepening
and knowledge-extending, provides for the credit amounts of the graduate studies, the
quantitative amounts (in percentages) of some general parts of the studies, etc. The new
description, which should be adopted in accordance to the new Law on Higher Education and
Research (in force as of 2009) is still not adopted and even not given for consideration in a
draft format (in contrast, The Description of the General Requirements for a Degree
Awarding Study Programs of the First Cycle [i.e. undergraduate/bachelor] and Integrated
Studies is already given for consideration in a draft format).
The Ministry of Education and Science should adopt the Description of the Study Field of
Law, but it still circulates in a draft version and is not officially adopted. In the last draft
version this Description shall be applicable only to the first circle (undergraduate/bachelor) or
the integrated studies (see below), and shall not regulate graduate studies, leaving it at the
complete discretion of the academic institutions having those programs (only one of this kind
of institutions – Mykolas Romeris University – provides for the purely graduate programs of
legal education).
Regulatory body: The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania
Brief Description: On the 20th of February, 2008, this Court adopted the Ruling ON THE
COMPLIANCE OF THE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN LAW FOR
THE PERSONS WHO WISH TO HOLD, UNDER PROCEDURE ESTABLISHED BY LAWS, THE
POSITION OF A JUDGE APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
RESOLUTION NO. 1568 “ON APPROVING THE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION IN LAW FOR THE PERSONS WHO WISH TO HOLD, UNDER PROCEDURE
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ESTABLISHED BY LAWS, THE POSITION OF A JUDGE” OF 4 OCTOBER 2002 WITH PARAGRAPH 1
(WORDINGS OF 24 JANUARY 2002, 18 MAY 2004, 1 JUNE 2006) OF ARTICLE 51 OF THE REPUBLIC
OF LITHUANIA LAW ON COURTS AND PARAGRAPH 1 OF ARTICLE 5 OF THE REPUBLIC OF
LITHUANIA LAW ON THE ENTRY INTO FORCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW ON
AMENDING THE LAW ON COURTS, which contains rather firm statements of the required
contents (by necessary subjects) of legal studies and the general models of legal studies in
order for the graduate to be eligible to work as a judge (those rules where later applied to the
professions of a prosecutor and an attorney). The 8, 9 and 10 sections and the following
subsections of the ruling are the most relevant here. Two models of legal studies, which may
be conducted only by universities, are fixed as possible in Lithuania for this purpose – first
and second circle (i.e. bachelor + master studies, both are necessary) (further – first model;
this model in the ruling is called “two-stage studies” model and thoroughly discussed in
section 9 and following subsections), or, so-called, integrated studies (where first and second
circle are not separated), after which master’s degree is awarded (further – second model;
this model in the ruling is called “one-stage (integrated) studies” model and thoroughly
discussed in section 8 and the following subsections). In this context it should be bared in
mind that, in Lithuania, completion of only graduate studies is insufficient for the graduate to
be eligible to work as a judge/attorney/prosecutor; accordingly, only after the graduation of
the university (not college) studies of those two models person may work as a
judge/prosecutor/attorney. There are three universities in the country offering legal studies
(i.e. university study programs in law), and two of them offer second model of legal education
(Vilniaus University and Vytautas Magnus University) and one offers first model of legal
education (Mykolas Romeris University).
It is notable that in this ruling the Court relies on the Law on Higher Education, which is not
in force as of today. It has been replaced by the aforementioned Law on Higher Education
and Research in 2009.
What concerns the specific regulation of the graduate/master studies, the Court here regulates
three distinct aspects/forms of those studies. First aspect/form is when graduate studies are the
part of the first model, i.e. when student, studying at this level, has the
bachelor/undergraduate education in law. Essentially court recognises rather wide
variety/possibility of the contents of graduate studies in this model: at this – graduate – level
students may either deepen or extend their knowledge/skills, acquired during undergraduate
studies:
Some programmes of master studies of the trend of law are specialised, designed for extending the knowledge of the persons,
who acquired the qualification degree of bachelor of law, in a certain area of law. For example, master study programmes of
labour and social maintenance law, expertise research, information technology law, European Union law, and administrative
law have been registered and are fulfilled; the persons who finished studies according to these programmes are awarded the
qualification degree of master of law. This is completely in line with the concept of master studies and the qualification
degree of master, which is consolidated in the Law on Higher Education ...
However, the Court explicitly states that some subjects, related to the theoretical bases of the
profession and forming of the fundamental professional skills, are to be studied only at the
undergraduate level, but not delayed for the graduate level:
If one opts for the model of two-stage studies of the trend of law, the discussed subjects which compose the
core of university studies in law and which are in line with the concept of full-fledged university higher
education in law, are to be studied in the first stage according to the programme of university bachelor studies
of the trend of law …. … . master studies are not intended for rendering the theoretical bases of the
profession and forming the professional skills necessary for independent work; thus, master studies of the
trend of law cannot be intended for hearing such subjects of studies of the trend of law, and accounting for
namely for such subjects without learning which the qualification of a lawyer could not be reasonably
recognised to the person (namely, such subjects as legal theory, history of law, constitutional law,
administrative law and administrative procedure law, finance law, criminal law and criminal procedure law,
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civil law and civil procedure law, labour law, international public law, European Union law and similar
fundamental subjects)
The second aspect/form of graduate studies, discusses by the Court, is when graduate studies,
which generally are the part of the first model, are studied by the students, having
undergraduate education in the field other than law (essentially this is aimed at the studies in
Mykolas Romeris University, which gradually increased the practice of accepting the students
to its graduate studies from other fields of undergraduate education, usually coming from
other universities in Lithuania). For some time, the status of the graduates of those studies
was rather unclear with respect to their possibilities to hold the positions of a
judge/prosecutor/attorney, but the Court here rather firmly disqualifies them as insufficient for
this purpose, because they are not in the line with the concept of master studies if used for this
purpose and because they could provide with the graduate/master education only of the
narrower area of law:
It has also been mentioned that one of the changes which occurred in Lithuania with regard to the model of preparation of
lawyers—higher studies of the trend of law—is that sometimes also persons, who have not acquired the degree of bachelor
of law, can acquire the qualification degree of master of law.
It is completely obvious that is not in line with the concept of master studies and the qualification degree of master, which
is consolidated in the Law on Higher Education, .... As mentioned, the programme of undergraduate studies, upon
completing which persons are awarded the qualification degree of bachelor, is intended to provide the theoretical basis to a
profession and to form professional skills necessary for independent work, while master studies and the qualification
degree of master are related with acquisition of higher professional qualification and preparedness for independent research
or artistic activities or activities for which deeper scientific knowledge and stronger abilities are required. It was also
mentioned that only such student of law can pursue “higher professional qualification”, who has theoretical bases of the
legal profession and the professional skills necessary for independent work; that only such student of law can pursue
“deeper scientific knowledge and stronger abilities” who has the basic scientific knowledge and abilities necessary in the
corresponding area of law, also, that under the Law on Higher Education ... master studies are not intended for rendering
the theoretical bases of the profession and forming the professional skills necessary for independent work; thus, master
studies of the trend of law cannot be intended for hearing such subjects of studies of the trend of law, and accounting for
namely for such subjects without learning which the qualification of a lawyer could not be reasonably recognised to the
person (namely, such subjects as legal theory, history of law, constitutional law, administrative law and administrative
procedure law, finance law, criminal law and criminal procedure law, civil law and civil procedure law, labour law,
international public law, European Union law and similar fundamental subjects). Therefore, the master studies of such
trend of law, to which the persons who have not finished bachelor studies of the trend of law and who do not have the
qualification degree of bachelor of law can be admitted, may be justified (thus, their programmes may be registered under
established procedure) only in the case when the persons who have the qualification degree of bachelor of another trend of
studies, but not that of bachelor of law, are awarded not the degree of master of law in general, but that of master of
corresponding narrower area of law.
The Court here admits that for those persons, who have finished undergraduate studies not in
the field of law, the so-called “levelling”/additional studies might be organised with the intent
to compensate the lack of their knowledge/skills that should have been acquired during the
undergraduate studies in law, but afterwards it states that:
in itself it does not mean that such knowledge could be sufficient for such master studies of the trend of law, which are not
of narrow specialisation and which are oriented to a rather broad area (branch) of law, to several areas (branches) of law, let
alone to the entire legal system. Therefore, it needs to be emphasised once again that the persons who have not finished
bachelor studies of the trend of law and who do not have the qualification degree of bachelor of law, after they finish the
said master studies of the trend of law, are to be awarded not the qualification degree of master of law in general, but of
corresponding narrower area of law.
Finally, the Court also speaks of the third aspect/form of legal studies – the American model –
where the lawyers are prepared exclusively at the second stage/undergraduate level, and
which was attempted to implement in Vytautas Magnus University. As Court states:
It needs to be emphasised that in general also such model of university studies of the trend of law, where lawyers are
prepared only at the second stage of the studies—master studies of the trend of law—is not impossible. Such model of
preparation of lawyers is consolidated in the systems of higher education in law of some foreign states, inter alia the United
States of America.
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However, the Court completely disqualifies this model either on the same grounds, which
were met in the discussion of the second form (i.e. that only the undergraduate studies are
intended to provide the theoretical basis to a profession and to form fundamental professional
skills, while the graduate studies could only be intended to deepen this knowledge/skills or
extend the knowledge into other sphere; but if taken alone – without legal education at the
undergraduate level – they are either absolutely incoherent or insufficient for the preparation
to the fundamental legal professions), or on the grounds, which are very arguable and based
on legal norms, which were outdated (not in force/changed) at that time or interpreted very
generally. For example, see:
In this case the problem is not about the fact that such, far from impossible, model of preparation of lawyers
for certain reasons could not be provided for in laws of the Republic of Lithuania, but about the fact that
explicit and imperative provisions of laws of the Republic of Lithuania consolidate only two models of
university studies of the trend of law (and not only of the trend of law): the model of university one-stage
(integrated) studies of the trend of law, or such model of university two-stage studies of the trend of law,
where lawyers are prepared both in the first and the second stage of studies, besides, the subjects which
compose the core of university studies in law and which are in line with the concept of full-fledged university
higher education in law, are to be studied in the first stage according to the programme of university bachelor
studies of the trend of law. The problem is that the discussed model of preparation of lawyers, according to
which lawyers are prepared only at the second stage of studies—master studies of the trend of law—is
grounded on such a concept of master studies of the trend of law and of the qualification degree of master of
law, which does not stem from laws of the Republic of Lithuania. While the master studies of the trend of law
and of the qualification degree of master of law, which stems from laws of the Republic of Lithuania, directly
denies the possibility of the discussed model of preparation of lawyers, according to which lawyers are
prepared only at the second stage of studies.
The last two regulations, i.e. of the second and the third aspect/form of legal studies at the
graduate/master level, could be considered as a substantial legal constraint, as of today, to the
reform and changes in graduate law degree programmes.
1.2 What degree of autonomy is entrusted to each academic institution to determine the
scope of graduate degrees in law.
 Is the curriculum for all graduate law degrees in your jurisdiction is determined by a
central authority (such as the national department for education)?
or
 Are academic institutions or law faculties themselves are able to determine the
specific courses offered in graduate law degree programmes?
The curriculum of graduate legal studies is very generally determined by central authority
(which, in this case, is the Constitutional Court), essentially only by excluding those subjects
that must be taught only at the undergraduate level (see above). According to the Law on
Higher Education, the more specific regulation should be done by the Ministry of Education
and Science by adopting a certain Descriptions, but it is not done yet.
It should also be bared in mind that only one academic institution in Lithuania – Mykolas
Romeris University – conducts the pure/separate graduate studies in law, and offer
various different specialized programmes at this level (for example, European Union Law,
European Business Law, Information Technology Law, International Law, etc.; see
http://www.mruni.eu/en/norintiems_studijuoti/degree_programmes/). The courses, offered in
these graduate programmes, are determined completely by the University itself. This situation
might not be triggered by the adoption of the aforementioned Description of the Study Field
of Law (by the Ministry of Education and Science), if it is adopted in the last draft-format, as
it should be applicable only to the undergraduate and integrated studies (see above), but not to
the graduate studies. Also, as stated above, in 2005, Ministry of Education and Science
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adopted The Description of the General Requirements for a Master Study Programs, but it
was done in accordance to Law on Higher Education, valid at that time, but not in force as of
today (however, this Description remains valid today). This act regulates the general
requirements for the graduate studies, divides graduate programmes into two sorts –
knowledge-deepening and knowledge-extending, provides for the credit amounts of the
graduate studies, the quantitative amounts (in percentages) of some general parts of the
studies, etc. The new description, which should be adopted in accordance to the new Law on
Higher Education and Research (in force as of 2009) is still not adopted and even not given
for consideration in a draft format. This uncertainty leaves rather wide discretion for Mykolas
Romeris University in framing their graduate legal studies.
It should be also bared in mind that graduate/master law degree is also awarded after the
completion of the integrated legal studies (second model; see above). The part (smaller) of the
subjects in those studies is to be considered as being of the second/graduate level. As
mentioned above, the Ministry of Education and Science already considers the draft version
of the The Description of the General Requirements for a Degree Awarding Study Programs
of the First Cycle and Integrated Studies, which, if adopted, should regulate all integrated
legal studies (i.e. from the beginning to the end of those studies) at the very general level.
Also, if the aforementioned Description of the Study Field of Law will be adopted by the
Ministry of Education and Science (see above), it shall be applicable to all the
contents/curriculum of the integrated studies, accordingly, also to the subjects that are
attributable to the second/graduate level.
1.3 Legal constraints/barriers to reform and changes in graduate law degree
programmes
Which are, if any, the formal legal constraints/barriers to reform or change graduate law
degree programmes in your Country?
(If you know of any, we also welcome any information about any informal/non-legal
constraints/barriers to reform or change to graduate law degree programmes.)
The main legal constraints/barriers to change graduate legal studies are made, as of today, by
the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, by disqualifying the American (only
graduate) model of legal education and diminishing the other form of only-graduate legal
education (i.e. without undergraduate legal education) to the level of the provision with the
graduate/master education only of the narrower area of law, and, as a consequence, making it
insufficient to work in a certain main legal professions (see above).
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Section II: Disciplinary Contents
(This information is not required by the first data reporting deadline of 15 April 2010, but
any national contributors who would like to provide any of this information at this time
should feel free to do so).
2.1 How many types of graduate law degrees are offered in your Country?
Please indicate the different types of graduate law degrees available (i.e., LLM, MA, others?)
MA
LLM (program on International Law by Mykolas Romeris University jointly with the
University of Ghent)
2.2. For each type of graduate law degree, please indicate the scope for learning in
purely legal subjects.
The scope of courses at the graduate level is not determined. Pure graduate level studies in
Lithuania is conducted only by one university – Mykolas Romeris University (otherwise they
are integrated studies), and it is totally flexible. Usually master level programs have some
kind of specialization. For example, by Mykolas Romeris University, in the field of Law,
such master programs are offered: Law and Management, Administrative Law, EU Law,
Boilaw, Business Law, etc. (see:
http://www.mruni.eu/en/padaliniai/centrai/akademiniu_reikalu_centras/studiju_programos/ma
gistranturos_studiju_programos/magistranturos_studiju_programu_ir_kvalifikaciju_aprasai/in
dex.php).
2.3 For each type of graduate law degree, please indicate the scope for learning in
interdisciplinary and non-legal subjects. So for each type of graduate law degree please
state:
(a) Whether learning involves disciplines that are outside the scope of purely legal subjects?
Yes.
(b) If yes, please indicate what other disciplines are taught. For example, courses in (please
tick the appropriate box, specifying if mandatory or not):
Political Sciences
Economics
Anthropology
Foreign languages
Medicine
Research methods
Psychology
History
Philosophy and ethics
Communications
Environmental policy
Statistics
Mandatory
+
+
O
O
+
O
+
O
+
+
O
O
Non-mandatory
O
O
+
+
O
+
O
+
O
O
+
+
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Others _______________________________________________________________
Usually courses are very specific. The examples are as follows:
Management Psychology
Development of Civil Society
Comparative Analysis of Public Administration
Strategic Development of the State
Public Sector Economics
Labour Market in the European Union
Human Resource Management
Tax Administration Comparative Analysis
European Community Internal Market Freedoms
Demographic Process Management
Social Conflict Theory
International Organizations
Biomedical Ethics
International Commercial Transactions
Political Campaigns
Customs Monitoring of Logistics
Logistics of Transport
Electronic Commerce
Etc.
(c) Please indicate whether the percentage* of inter-disciplinary credits that students are
allowed to take is limited, and if so what that credit limit is.
(by inter-disciplinary, we mean courses that combine another discipline with law, such as
Law and Economics)
There is no such kind of a limit.
(d) Please indicate whether the percentage* of non-legal credits that students are allowed to
take is limited, and if so what that credit limit is.
(by non-legal we mean courses that do not specifically include law, such as an Economics
course in Game Theory)
There is no such kind of a limit.
(e) Please indicate if any practical experience in the legal/judicial field is mandatory for
students taking graduate law degrees in your jurisdiction.
(by practical experience in the legal/judicial field we mean, for instance, internships, moot
courts, student law review work)
At the pure graduate level, practical experience (as internship) is not mandatory and usually it
is not provided at all. In the integrated (first+second circle) studies, the internship is
mandatory and it should have not less than 18 ECTS credits.
(f) Please indicate if any practical experience in the legal/judicial field is optional (i.e.,
offered but not mandatory) for students taking graduate law degrees in your jurisdiction.
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No, as it is stated, in almost all Mykolas Romeris University programs internship is not
planned. However, for example, in the Forensic Examination MA program, although there is
no internship practice planned, during studies there is lots of attention paid to formation of the
practical skills of an expert. Part of the exercises takes place in criminal institutions.
(g) Please indicate if a dissertation is mandatory.
All MA degree giving programs (either pure or integrated) are concluded with the Master
Thesis (writing and defence). It is not equivalent to the PhD dissertation.
If percentages vary from university to university, it is up to each national reporter to decide
how to address this issue: for instance, either by providing a short sample of universities or
by providing a general comment on the extent to which these types of courses are offered at
universities in your jurisdiction.
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Section III: Innovative experiences
(This information is not required by the first data reporting deadline of 15 April 2010, but
any national contributors who would like to provide any of this information at this time
should feel free to do so).
There may be a large degree of overlap between the information in Part 2 and this Part if there
is a large degree of inter-disciplinary and non-legal study in graduate law degrees in your
jurisdiction (especially in answering question 3.2 below). If so, please feel free to direct us to
the information you provided in Part 2 in answering the following questions.
3.1 Please indicate whether any innovative teaching methods are used in graduate law
degree programmes in your jurisdiction.
(For instance, in graduate law degree programmes in your jurisdiction, are judges involved in
teaching, are students taught using hands-on practice in legal and judicial decision-making, or
using recordings of actual legal proceedings?)
Judges might be involved in teaching (for example, in Vytautas Magnus Universtity the part
of the course on Criminal Law is taught by the Judge from the Regional/Appellate Court).
Also it is rather common for the attorneys or prosecutors to be involved in teaching. Also see
answer to 2.3(f).
On other innovative learning/teaching methods: multimedia in class now is almost universally
used; observation/visit in court is also rather usual occasion; the dictation-style
learning/teaching method is more and more rare; discussions, debates, forums, and,
especially, Socratic method of learning are more and more dominating methods of
learning/teaching; the distance learning/teaching methodology, especially by the use of
Moodle program, is started to be rather commonly used in various courses in one or another
way, from very minimal usage (just to give home assignments or the like) to the very
elaborate usage.
3.2 Please indicate whether any innovative teaching contents are used in graduate law
degree programmes in your jurisdiction.
In pure graduate (master) level studies in Mykolas Romeris university there is a lot of rather
innovative interdisciplinary contents, i.e. many unique or inter-disciplinary courses offered
(as an example, see the list at the end of the answer to 2.3(b)).
Also see the data in the links for the Faculty of Law in the webpage:
http://www.mruni.eu/en/padaliniai/centrai/akademiniu_reikalu_centras/studiju_programos/ma
gistranturos_studiju_programos/magistranturos_studiju_programu_ir_kvalifikaciju_aprasai/in
dex.php.
3.3 Please indicate whether graduate law degree programmes in your jurisdiction
include any specific international components.
(For instance, is it either compulsory or optional in a graduate law degree programme in your
jurisdiction to spend time studying in another country, or are courses in EU law mandatory.
If so, can you please provide some details about this)
In most pure graduate programs in Mykolas Romeris University spending time in another
country is optional, usually implemented by the use of Erasmus program. However, in the
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LLM program, offered jointly by Mykolas Romeris University and the University of Ghent in
Belgium, the studying in the University of Ghent for one semester is obligatory.
Many courses on EU law are mandatory in the European Union Law MA program (see
http://www.mruni.eu/mru_lt_dokumentai/direkcijos/studiju_direkcija/Programos_anglu_kalb
a/Mast_European_Union_Law.pdf). But also in other MA programs in Mykolas Romeris
University various international-kind courses are offered and, usually, are the obligatory part
of the program (for example, see
http://www.mruni.eu/mru_lt_dokumentai/direkcijos/studiju_direkcija/Programos_anglu_kalb
a/Mast_International_Law.pdf;
http://www.mruni.eu/mru_lt_dokumentai/direkcijos/studiju_direkcija/Programos_anglu_kalb
a/Mast_International_Protect_Human.pdf;
http://www.mruni.eu/mru_lt_dokumentai/direkcijos/studiju_direkcija/Programos_anglu_kalb
a/Mast_Labour_Social_Secur.pdf;
etc. Generally, see the links for the Faculty of Law in the webpage:
http://www.mruni.eu/en/padaliniai/centrai/akademiniu_reikalu_centras/studiju_programos/ma
gistranturos_studiju_programos/magistranturos_studiju_programu_ir_kvalifikaciju_aprasai/in
dex.php).
For further information or clarification on these questions please contact the Task Force
2 Coordinators:
Tomas Berkmanas: [email protected]
Cheryl Thomas: [email protected]
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