AIGARS STRUPIŠS
President of the Supreme Court
Personal data
Date of birth: March 29, 1967, Viļāni, Latvia
Education
1992-1993 – visiting researcher at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
1991 – traineeship at the University of Aarhus in Denmark
1990 – graduated from the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law
Career
2020-present – President of the Supreme Court of Latvia and Chair of the Judicial Council
2018-2020 – Chair of the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court
2014-2018 – Judge of the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court
2000-2014 – Head of the Law Office of A. Strupišs, Ltd
1998-2000 – leading expert in several European Union PHARE projects
1993-2013 – Lecturer at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory and History
1994-1998 – Executive director at the Institute of Socio-economic Research “Latvija”
1992-present – Lecturer at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory and History
1990 – Lecturer at Riga School of Commerce
Additional duties
Member of the Judicial Council since 2018
Member of the Disciplinary Court in 2014–2018, Chair of the Disciplinary Court in 2015–2018
Aigars Strupišs has led the working group for elaboration of the Commercial Law, participated in developing of the Group of Companies Law, Law on Commercial Pledge, Insolvency Law, Associations and Foundations Law.