About me
Ms. Lyra Jakulevičienė is an international legal scholar specialising in international and European Union law, human rights law in particular, for more than two decades. She is a Professor and the Dean of the Law School of Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania. She has extensive human rights experience, including in strategic litigation, legal counselling, developing legal aid systems, and has worked with governments, business organisations and other stakeholders on better enforcement of human rights standards. Since 2005, she has pioneered on business engagement in human rights issues in the Central and Eastern European region, fostered development of business networks and guidance and advised on development of national actions plans in this area, and co-initiated social labelling initiatives.
Ms. Jakulevičienė has served as a member of the Management and Executive Boards of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, and a co-arbitrator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. From 1997 to 2013, Ms. Jakulevičienė worked in United Nations organisations, including UNHCR and UNDP in Lithuania, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine. She has contributed to legislative and policy developments, trained legal professionals, including judges, officials and civil society members throughout 20 years at European and national level, and designed European training modules. Her experience with judicial systems involved running projects on reform of judicial processes, and serving in national commissions for evaluation of performance of judges and examination of candidates to judges in Lithuania. Ms. Jakulevičienė is a member of the European Law Institute and Odysseus Legal Academic Network, and has been a long-serving national reporter at the Observatory on Free Movement of Workers in Europe. She is also a co-founder of human rights non-governmental organizations. Ms. Jakulevičienė has authored over 50 scholarly publications, published and edited several books, led numerous research projects in human rights, migration, asylum and related themes. Among her recent scientific interests are human rights and technologies, and climate change litigation.
