Pranas Kūris
Lithuanian legal scholar
Pranas Kūris (born August 20, 1938 in Šeduva, Radviliškis District Municipality) – lawyer, political figure of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Lithuanian SSR, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania, Minister of Justice of the LSSR, the only minister of the occupational Soviet government to become a member of the first Lithuanian Government after the restoration of Independence (first Minister of Justice), professor at Vilnius University (VU), lecturer at the Faculty of Law, judge of international courts, legal scholar and internationalist, diplomat, ambassador, honorary doctor of the Mykolas Romeris University.
His son is Egidijus Kūris (born 1961) – lecturer in constitutional law, professor at Vilnius University, head of the Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of VU, former chairman of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania, lecturer at the VU Institute of International Relations and Political Science.
Education, pedagogical, scientific activities
Pranas Kūris graduated from the Faculty of Law of VU, where he was awarded the qualification of a lawyer (1961). Later, he continued his studies in postgraduate studies (1963–1965), defended his dissertation of the candidate of legal sciences “The status of a free city in international law” at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University (March 15, 1965), candidate of legal sciences, on October 26, 1973 – his dissertation on the topic “The concept and foundations of legal liability in modern international law”, Doctor of Laws (nostrified by the Lithuanian Research Council into the degrees of Doctor of Law in the field of social sciences and habilitated doctor, respectively). He deepened his knowledge at the Institute of Advanced International Studies of the University of Paris (internship supervisor – Professor Ch. Rousseau), and at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Taught law subjects at the Faculty of Law of VU (public international law, etc.) and held administrative functions at Vilnius University (1961–1990). Lecturer, associate professor, dean of the Faculty of Law of VU. Since 1974, Professor at Vilnius University, corresponding member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (since 1990), academician of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (1996).
Pranas Kūris' main area of research is international law and the liability of states for violations of international law. He has published more than 70 works on this topic, including 5 books.
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