Born on 26 October 1961, in Vilnius, Lithuania

• M.A. in law, Vilnius University, 1984
• PhD in law, Moscow State University, 1988
• Habilitation, Vilnius University, 2008
• Assistant lecturer (1984-1985, 1988-1991), Senior Lecturer (1991-1992), Associate professor (1992-1994), Professor and Head (2008-2009), Department of Theory and History of State and Law; Professor and Head (2009-2013), Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University
• Advisor, State Re-Establishment Committee, Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, 1990-1991
• Member, legal professionals’ group for drafting the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, 1992
• Associate Professor (1992-2002), Professor (2002-2013) and Director (1992-1999), Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
• Assistant to the President, Constitutional Court of Lithuania, 1993-1997
• President, Lithuanian Political Science Association, 1995-1998
• Justice (1999-2008) and President (2002-2008), Constitutional Court of Lithuania
• President (as president of the constitutional court presiding at the Conference), Conference of the European Constitutional Courts, 2005-2008
• President of the Council, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2005-2009
• Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law, since 2012
• Member, Permanent Commission for the Assessment of Activities of Judges (Lithuania), 2012-2013
• Member, Advisory Board, Ministry of Health (Lithuania), 2013
• External Advisor to the Minister of Justice (Lithuania), 2013
• Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 2013.