Doc. dr. J.Machovenko habilitacijos procedūrai pateiktoje mokslo darbų apžvalgoje „XIII-XX a. Lietuvos teisinės sistemos istorija“ apibendrinami 1999-2009 m. VU Teisės fakultete atliktų tyrimų rezultatai, paskelbti 2 mokslo monografijose ir 20 mokslo straipsnių. Šių tyrimų metodologinis pagrindas yra sociologinė teisės samprata, leidžianti į teisę žvelgti ne tik kaip į pozityviosios teisės normų visumą, bet ir kaip į kur kas platesnį socialinį reiškinį - teisinę visuomenės sistemą. Autorius laiko teisinę sistemą autonomine visuomenės, kaip savavaldės sistemos, subsistema, gebančia savarankiškai nustatyti savo vidinę raidą, kad galėtų tinkamai atlikti jai aukštesnės sistemos priskirtas funkcijas. Pagrindinėmis funkcinėmis teisinės sistemos subsistemomis autorius laiko teisėkūros (institucijų ir procedūrų, teisės normų ir jų šaltinių), jurisdikcijos (teisės taikymo) ir jurisprudencijos (teisės pažinimo bei mokymo) subsistemą. Apžvelgiami darbai apima visų trijų Lietuvos teisinės sistemos subsistemų problematiką. Remdamasis gausiais istorijos šaltiniais, Lietuvoje ir užsienyje paskelbtais mokslo darbais, autorius kompleksiškai nagrinėja nesulaukusius atidesnio teisės istorikų dėmesio klausimus. Lietuvos teisinės sistemos elementai tiriami Vakarų teisės tradicijos, kurioje susiformavo ir plėtojasi Lietuvos teisinė sistema, istorijos kontekstu. Autorius supranta teisės istoriją kaip tam tikriems dėsningumams pavaldų kryptingą įprasmintą teisės „įkopimą“ į kokybiškai vis aukštesnį... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the present work the author reviews the two scientific monographs and twenty scientific articles in which the history of the Lithuanian legal system is investigated. The author aspires to elucidate how did the main subsystems of the Lithuanian legal system – legislation, jurisdiction and jurisprudence – appeared and developed up to the end of the 20th century in the context of evolution of the Western legal tradition. The basic methods of research used in the works are historical, comparative and teleological. The main theses of the reviewed scientific monographs and articles are these: The law of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) was created by the Government on the basis of the national Lithuanian law and some elements of the custom Slav law. Substitution of the custom Slav law for the Lithuanian public and private law took place in those provinces in the 14th-16th centuries. The custom Slav law hampered forming of the system of law of the GDL. It was created finally in the middle of the 16th century. The law of the GDL was a medieval estate law. Estate is a legal phenomenon and law determines signs and features of any estate. Main sign of any estate is rights leaved to him by law and protected by state. Estate system, that is an organization of society into classes rigidly divided for political purposes and defined primarily by law, is based on a legal inequality of estates. Any estate is a stable order closed to outsiders. In order to belong to estate any person must... [to full text]

This final paper of a Master of Science deals with the insight into the course of procedures of Lithuanian parliament. The beginning was in 1918-1919 in the form of the Council of the State. The action of regulation were the fundamental laws and statutes of the Provisional Constitution of Lithuania. The Council of the State was formed differently. Due to historical circumstances it was formed not by the way of general election and couldn’t be considered as the Seimas. But at that time it was the only institution in power having the function of the parliament and legislature. Thus the starting point of the research into the parliament procedures could be justified. The paper deals only with the main parliamentary procedures: 1) The status of the member of the parliament (the rights, duties and the responsibilities) regulating the legal status, 2) procedures related to the control of the Government and 3) the legislation. The norms of the procedure are brought into action in 2 legal laws. The search was based on two of them: the Constitution and the Statute of the Seimas. The analysis was done applying the historical, comparative, classification and generalization methods and as an auxiliary method a descriptive method enabling to produce the selected data for the analysis because during the period from 1918 to 1940. According to the reflection of parliament procedures and political events of this period, how the State developed its democracy, three courses of parliamentary... [to full text]