“The Minister of Foreign Affairs will engage experts in a discussion on the topics of international and European law related to Latvia’s long-term foreign policy goals and current geopolitical developments,” said a release from the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The Chair of the Council is Māris Lejnieks, lecturer at the Department of International and European Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia and the members of the Council are Dr. Mārtiņš Paparinskis (member of the International Law Commission and Professor at University College London); Eva Kalniņa (independent arbitrator at the Arbitration Chambers association); Dr. Arina Melse (Legal Director/Member of the Board at the Baltic Human Rights Society and guest lecturer at Riga Graduate School of Law); Ingrīda Kariņa-Bērziņa (lecturer at Riga Graduate School of Law and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga); Dr. Irēna Barkāne (researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia); Viktorija Soņeca (lecturer at Riga Graduate School of Law and Legal Research Counsel to the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court); and Dr. Edmunds Broks (Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia).
The Council of Independent Experts on International and European Law was established to ensure an in-depth study of the international legal framework on current issues, to formulate the national position in foreign policy informed by a high-quality analysis of legal and political aspects, to make foreign policy decisions on specific issues, as well as strengthening and developing the analysis of the international legal system in Latvia.
The experts work on the council on a voluntary basis and without remuneration.
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