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The Republic of Latvia

Latvijas Republikas Augstākā tiesa

 

Mr. Aigars Strupišs, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

 

President since: June 16, 2020

Justice of the Supreme Court since: 2014

 

career before being justice of the Supreme Court:

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 Institute of Socio-economic Research “Latvija” 

1992-present  Lecturer at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory and History 

1990  Lecturer at Riga School of Commerce 

 

Personal data 

Born: March 29, 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 that of Master’s Degree