About RGSL

People

Our faculty and administration

RGSL is home to a resident faculty as well as a large international faculty that comes to Riga to teach selected courses. Our faculty represents both academic excellence and extensive practical experience, offering an education that is highly relevant for career development.  

Faculty 10

Laura RatniecePhD
Rector
Legal Research Methods. Legal Interpretation
Aleksandrs FillersPhD
Associate Professor
Introduction to Civil Law. Contract Law. Law on Obligations. Property Law
Aleksandrs Potaičuks PhD
Bachelor Programme Director. Assistant Professor
Administrative Law, Procedure and Fair Trial. Privacy and EU Data Protection. European Union Law
Anastasija KaplaneLL.M
Lecturer
Introduction to Public International Law. International Human Rights Law Law of State Responsibility. Legal Aspects of the External Relations of the European Union
George UlrichPhD
Leading Researcher. Board Member
International Human Rights Law. Human Rights and Business
Ieva MiļūnaLL.M
Lecturer
International Humanitarian Law. Introduction to Public International Law. International Human Rights Law. Law of International Organisations
Ilze RūseDr.phil.
Professor
EU Decision Making - Institutional Law
Ineta ZiemelePhD
Professor
International Law. Litigation at the European Court of Human Rights
Nataļja TočelovskaPhD
Assistant professor
Finance. Business Accounting. Financial Accounting. Financial Economics
Waleed GumaaMBA
Masters Programme Director. Lecturer
Project Management. Business Strategy. Applied Business Strategy. Introduction to Business

Visiting professors and visiting lecturers 62

Adam CzarnotaPhD
Visiting Professor
Law and Social Theory
Agnese GerhardeLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Contracts and ICT
Alessio BartolacelliPhD
Visiting Associate Professor
European Company Law
Alina NidagundiMA
Visiting Lecturer
Spanish Language
Carlos LlorentePhD
Visiting Professor
International Commercial Law. Comparative Contract & Commercial Law
Dennis-Kenji Kipker PhD
Visiting Professor
European and International IT Security and Data Protection Law
Didzis Kļaviņš(Dr.sc.pol.)
Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to Diplomacy
Edina HarbinjaPhD
Visiting Professor
Privacy and Data Protection
Edvijs ZandarsLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Legal Skills
Filip CyuńczykPhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
Constitutional Law; Interdisciplinary Research: Law and Politics
Fin-Jasper LangmackPhD
Visiting Lecturer
International Humanitarian Law
Francesco Luigi GattaPhD
Visiting Professor
European Union Law
Gints JegermanisMA, Ambassador (ret.)
Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to diplomacy
Gunda ReireDr.sc.pol.
Visiting Lecturer
Crisis Management in International Politics
Ieva RācenājaMBA, MSc
Director. Visiting Lecturer
Human Resource Management
Ilona GorņevaDr. Philol.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Latin for Lawyers
Inga JēkabsonePhD
Visiting Lecturer
Legal Research Methods. Data Analytics for Business. Mathematics and Statistics for Social Sciences
Inga ReineMA
Visiting Lecturer
EU Institutional Law and Decision Making. Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Ivars IndānsDr.demogr.
Visiting Lecturer
Analysis of Russian Politics
Ivo KlotiņšLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Jānis IkstensDr.sc.pol.
Visiting Professor
Introduction to Politics
Jānis PriedePhD
Visiting Professor
Microeconomics. Research Methods for Business Studies
Jaroslaw BeldowskiPhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
ESG; Banking & Financial Markets Law
Jelena VladimirskaPhD
Visiting Professor
French Language
Julia HanschDr.
Visiting Professor
Applied Business Strategy
Jūlija JerņevaLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Competition and State Aid Law. Internal Market Law
Jūlija SaušaMag.iur.
Visiting Lecturer
International Tax Law
Juris BurlakovsPhD
Visiting Professor
Environmental Science and Sustainability
Katrīna Marija SitnieceMSSc
Visiting Lecturer
International Security
Krista Paula PetereLL.M
Legal Research Adviser. Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to Civil Law. Contract Law
Kristaps Tamužs LL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Constitutional Law. Litigation at the European Court of Human Rights
Kristīne RāviņaLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Laura ValtereLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Intellectual Property Law
León Castellanos-JankiewiczPhD
Visiting Lecturer
International Humanitarian Law and Responsibility. Advanced Public International Law. International Human Rights Institutions, Procedures and Mechanisms
Ligita GjortlereM.Sci.Soc.
Head of the Library. Visiting Lecturer
Legal Research
Linda ApsePhD
Visiting Docent
Formal Logic and Critical Thinking
Marika Laizāne-JurkāneDr.sc.pol.
Visiting Docent
Law of International Organizations. Political Negotiations Strategy and Tactics. Argumentation: Theory and Practice. Research Methods
Mark LeiserPhD
Visiting Professor
Digital Regulation. Disruptive Technology
Mārtiņš DanusēvičsM.Soc.Sc.
Visiting Lecturer
Mathematics and Statistics for Social Sciences
Mārtiņš HiršsPhD
Visiting lecturer
Contemporary World History. International Security
Momchil Milanov LL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to Public International Law
Monica MigliarottiLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Legal English, Legal Writing
Paolo PaesaniPhD
Visiting Professor
Monetary Policy. Macrooeconomics. International Economics
Rainers SvoksLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to Law
Régis LanneauPhD
Visiting Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Research: Law and Economics
Robert LanePhD
Visiting Associate Professor
Competition Law
Sara AddamoPhD
Visiting Lecturer
Company Law
Silvija AndernovicsMA TEFL
Visiting Lecturer
Academic English
Stefania Di StefanoMA
Visiting Lecturer
Legal Philosophy
Tjaco T. van den HoutLL.M
Visiting Professorial Fellow
International Adjudication. European Legal History and Roman Law. Geo-economics: the Geopolitics of Energy
Tomasz KramerLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Legal Aspects of External Relations of the EU
Uldis KrastiņšLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Legal Theory. Proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union
Ulla Zumente-SteeleMSW
Erasmus Institutional Coordinator. Visiting Lecturer
Mediation
Valentija LiholajaDr.iur.
Visiting Professor
Criminal Law
Valters KažeDr.oec.
Visiting Associate Professor
Marketing
Valts NeretsLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
International Sales Law
Varis KlotiņšLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Criminal Process
Vasileios KaragiannopoulosPhD
Visiting Professor
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Viktorija SoņecaLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to Law. European Union Law
Vineta KlotiņaLL.M
Visiting Lecturer
Employment Law
Vita MatissPhD
Visiting Professor
Global Approaches to Public Diplomacy
Žaneta MikosaPhD
Visiting Researcher
EU Environmental Law

Honorary professors 2

Egils LevitsAss. iur.
Hon. Professor at RGSL. President of Latvia
Human Rights Law, European Law, Public Law
Eleanor SharpstonLL.D
Hon. Professor at RGSL. Former Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Union

Administration 11

Laura RatniecePhD
Rector
Legal Research Methods. Legal Interpretation
Ieva RācenājaMBA, MSc
Director. Visiting Lecturer
Human Resource Management
Aleksandrs Potaičuks PhD
Bachelor Programme Director. Assistant Professor
Administrative Law, Procedure and Fair Trial. Privacy and EU Data Protection. European Union Law
Waleed GumaaMBA
Masters Programme Director. Lecturer
Project Management. Business Strategy. Applied Business Strategy. Introduction to Business
Katrīna Daugule
Head of the Study Department
Inga Ugaine
Chief Accountant
Ligita GjortlereM.Sci.Soc.
Head of the Library. Visiting Lecturer
Legal Research
Monika JansoneLL.M
Bachelor Study Programme Administrator
Daina Račinska
Masters Study Programme Administrator
Krista Paula PetereLL.M
Legal Research Adviser. Visiting Lecturer
Introduction to Civil Law. Contract Law
Ulla Zumente-SteeleMSW
Erasmus Institutional Coordinator. Visiting Lecturer
Mediation

Board 4

Ieva Morica
Board member. Executive director of Foundation for an Open Society DOTS
George UlrichPhD
Leading Researcher. Board Member
International Human Rights Law. Human Rights and Business
Inga Kačevska
Board Member
Andis Geižāns
Board Member