Gintautas Šulija

Gintautas Šulija (born 2 August 1978 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian business lawyer and legal scholar. He holds a Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.), PhD with post-graduation (LL.M.) and the title of associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Kazimieras Simonavičius University. He is a co-author of the commentary of the Lithuanian Criminal Code and co-founder and managing partner of Šulija Partners Law Firm Vilnius.

Education In 2001 Gintautas Šulija graduated from Vilnius University, the Faculty of Law. As from 2001 he was enrolled as a doctoral student and obtained a PhD in social sciences, for the thesis in criminal law.

In 2004 Šulija was awarded an LL.M. (magna cum laude) from Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Between 2006 and 2007 Gintautas Šulija studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College and graduated with an LL.M.

Having received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he worked on the dissertation Standard Contract Terms in Cross-Border Business Transactions under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marina Wellenhofer. Šulija was awarded a summa cum laude degree (Dr. jur.) from the Faculty of Law of Goethe University Frankfurt in 2010.

His research interests are aviation law, trade law, European private law, and financial law.

Gintautas Šulija attended Gustav Stresemann Institute, Jean Monnet regional center in Bonn and several European universities — University of Kiel in Germany, University of Lund in Sweden, Institute of Human Rights of Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

Law science and pedagogy

From 1999 to 2002 Gintautas Šulija was a specialist at Law Institute of Lithuania in Vilnius. From 2008 he was a tutor and lecturer in commercial law at universities and colleges (ISM, TTVAM, etc.) for Lithuanian and foreign students in Lithuania. Šulija is an associate professor, member of the Faculty Council and a social partner of the Faculty of Law of Kazimieras Simonavičius University.

From 2012 to 2013 Šulija was a research fellow of the legal system department of the Law Institute of Lithuania. In 2013 he was a chairman of the commission "My Europe. My Rights" for law students in Lithuania. He is an honorary member of Law Students society "Kriterijus" of Kazimieras Simonavičius University.

Šulija was a co-author of commentary of the Criminal code of the Republic of Lithuania (with professors Vladas Pavilonis and Jonas Prapiestis, Gintaras Švedas and others). He compiled and published a number of articles in Lithuanian law reviews and legal journals: Teisė (Vilnius University), Teisės problemos (Law Institute of Lithuania), Jurisprudencija (Mykolas Romeris University).

He has cooperated with other publishers (Peter Lang International Academic, Oxford University Press, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy).

Law practice

From 2002 to 2004 Gintautas Šulija worked at the law firm Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiūnas ir partneriai, since September 2003 as a qualified attorney at law. In 2007 and 2008 he worked as a contract attorney for the international law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (London office).

In October 2008 Šulija founded a law firm — Šulija & Partners (currently "Šulija Partners Law Firm Vilnius") — that specialised in aviation finance, business and corporate law. Currently he heads corporate and mergers and acquisitions and commercial practices of the firm. He is recommended by the Who is Who Legal 100 (editions 2014, 2015, 2016) Aviation Finance, The Legal 500 EMEA 2016 and other legal directories. In 2016, he was listed as a leading Lithuanian lawyer in the shipping and transport area of EMEA Legal 500.

Šulija is a lecturer of legal seminars by business consulting organisations and companies ("Mokesčių srautas", "Teisės ir valdymo institutas" etc.). He provides comments to the Lithuanian press and newspapers (Lietuvos rytas etc.). On 25 October 2016 Šulija participated in the panel discussion of the International Aviation Forum as an aviation law expert and delivered a speech on the topic "Doing Aviation Business in Lithuania: Challenges and Pitfalls."