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Lauris Liepa

Lecturer

Mg. iur. Lauris Liepa

lauris.liepa@lu.lv

Courses: Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Consultation times available here.

Research interests:

Legal Ethics and Professional Regulation; Academical Responsibility; 

Professional experience and achievements:

  • Managing partner, sworn advocate at the Law Firm COBALT
  • Head of the Disciplinary Commission of the Latvian Bar Association.
  • Member of the Constitutional Law Commission of the Latvian President (from 2007 till 2013).
  • Memeber of the Arbitration Coucil of the Latvian Chamber of Trade and Industry.
  • Member of the International Bar Association.
  • Forenig member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, USA.
  • Member of the CCBE Working group in establishing the unified Code of Ethics for European Attorneys.
  • Member of the Editiorial council of Rīgas Laiks magazine, Latvia.

Publications:

  • Liepa L. (co-author) Legal framework for expedited Out of Court corporate recovery and restructuring. Legal Protection Process in Latvia. (0.5 a.l.). Expedited corporate debt restructuring procedures in the EU. Oxford University Press, Edited by Prof. Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal. Oxford University Press, 2015, (ISBN-10: 0198706502, ISBN-13: 9780198706502).
  • Liepa L., (co-author). Article Latvija ir neatkarīga demokrātiska republika [Latvia is an independent democratic Republic]. Issue: Latvijas Republikas Satversmes komentāri. Ievads. Vispārējie noteikumi. Latvijas Vēstnesis, Rīgā, 2014.
  • Liepa L. co-author) Komercsabiedrību reorganizācijas regulējums un prakse Latvijā [Regulation and practice of reorganization of commercial companies in Latvia]. Issue: Latvijas Republikas Uzņēmumu reģistra tiesību piemērošanas prakse. Komerctiesības, biedrošanās tiesības un publiskie reģistri. (ISBN: 978-9934-0-3480-0)  Zvaigzne, Rīgā, 2013.
  • Liepa, L. (co-author) "Par Latvijas valsts konstitucionālajiem pamatiem un neaizskaramo Satversmes kodolu'' [About the constitutional foundations of the Latvian state and the inviolable core of the Satversme]. Konstitucionālo tiesību komisija. Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2012.
  • Liepa, L. (co-author) Valsts prezidenta Konstitucionālo tiesību komisijas viedokļu krājums: Valsts prezidenta Konstitucionālo tiesību komisija. Viedokļi: 2008–2011 [Collection of opinions of the Constitutional Rights Commission of the State President: Constitutional Rights Commission of the State President. Opinions: 2008-2011]. Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2011
  • Liepa, L. (co-author) The Modern Dillemma of Legal Profession: Client Secrecy or Duty to Notify? Developing the Rule of Law in Latvia. Reflections in the Fields of Legal History, Legal Philosophy and Legal Sociology. Ed. Osipova, S., 2008, Sonderpunkt Verl., Muenster, pp.28. - 55.
  • Liepa, L. Vadoņa mīts Latvijā: tiesiskā dimensija [The myth of the leader in Latvia: the legal dimension]. LU Akadēmiskā Dzīve, 48 Edition 2011/2012. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais Apgāds (101-110.lpp);
  • Liepa, L. (co-author) Section "Accountability in the Legal Professions" Issue "Latvia. Human Development Report” 2008./2009. Accountability", University of Latvia, 2010.