Zenonas Petrauskas (22 June 1950 – 18 January 2009) was a Lithuanian lawyer and deputy foreign minister of
Lithuania
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(2004–2006). He worked as an associate professor of
international law. He was born in
Čekiškė
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(
Kaunas district municipality
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).
Biography
After graduation from a
secondary school
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in
Ariogala, Petrauskas continued his studies at the Law Faculty of
Vilnius University and graduated in 1975. In 1982 he obtained his doctorate from the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Petrauskas worked with several European universities: the Institute for Ostrecht of the
University of Cologne in
Germany (1991), the Institute for Political Sciences of the
University of Umea
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in
Sweden
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(1994), the
University of Aarhus in
Denmark (1995), and the
Université Libre de Bruxelles in
Belgium (1997).
From 1991 until September 2005, he was head of the Department of International Law and
EU Law of the Law Faculty of Vilnius University. Petrauskas was the author of several monographs on
diplomatic law and
consular law. He died in
Vilnius in January 2009.
Publications
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References
Biographyfrom Portal „Infolex“.
Biographyfrom Vilnius University website
International law scholars
21st-century Lithuanian politicians
1950 births
2009 deaths
Lithuanian legal scholars
Vilnius University alumni
Academic staff of Vilnius University
People from Ariogala
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