Justinas Žilinskas

Justinas Žilinskas is born in 1974, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

He studied law at Vilnius University (Criminal Law specialization) (1997) and holds a Ph.D degree from Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius) (2001). He currently serves as professor at the Department of International and EU Law at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius where he has taught the following courses: International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, and Introduction to Comparative Law. He is member of the National IHL Implementation Commission under the Ministry of Defense since 2003. He is Member or acting as an expert for various Government-level working groups on International Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights Law as well as European Court of Human Rights matters. Dr. Žilinskas is a lecturer at the Baltic Summer Academy of International Humanitarian Law (from 2003). From 2001 to 2005 he acted as a Senior Advisor and the Head of the International Law and EU Law Section at the Legal Department of the Office of the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania. From 2007 to 2009 he was Head of International Relations Department, Senior Research Fellow at Law Institute of Lithuania. Dr Žilinskas is an acting expert for the Lithuanian Academy of Science (from 2011). Since 2011, he is a member of the Lithuanian National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (Hague) and the member of InterantionalHumanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) (from 2012). Justinas Žilinskas is also known in Lithuania as young adult fiction writer and free-lance publicist.