Latvijas Republikas Augstākā tiesa (Supreme Court of Latvia)

Aigars Strupišs
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Chief Justice since: 16 June 2020
Member of the Supreme Court since: 2014

Biography and career

Born on 29 March 1967, Viļāni, Latvia

Education
1992–1993    Visiting researcher at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

1991        Traineeship at the University of Aarhus in Denmark 
1990         University of Latvia, qualification of a lawyer equivalent to a Master’s Degree

Career
2018–2020    Chair of the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court 
2014–2018    Judge of the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court 
2000–2014    Head of the Law Office of A. Strupišs, Ltd 
1998–2000    Leading expert in several European Union PHARE projects 
1993–2013    Lecturer at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory and History 
1994–1998    Executive director at the “Latvija” Institute of Socio-economic Research 
1992–    Lecturer at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory and History 
1990        Lecturer at Riga School of Commerce.