Pranas Kūris

Article summary

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.

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1938-08-20 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1961 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325754077