Aug. 26th, 2022, Law doctoral student Leda Žilinskienė successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Problems of Legal Regulation of Municipal Waste Management."

Research Supervisor:

MRU Law Prof. Algimantas Urmonas (S 001).

Defense Council:
Chairman – Prof. Dr. Birutė Pranevičienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Social sciences, Law, S 001).

Members:
Prof. Dr. Eglė Bilevičiūtė (Mykolas Romeris University, Social Sciences, Law, S 001);
Prof. Dr. Ieva Deviatnikovaitė (Mykolas Romeris University, Social sciences, Law, S 001);
Prof. Dr. Jānis Načisčionis (Turiba University, Republic of Latvia, Social sciences, Law, S 001);
Prof. Dr. Audronė Telešienė (Kaunas University of Technology, Social sciences, Sociology, S 005).

The PhD dissertation systematically analyzed the legal regulation of waste management and institutional system peculiarities and features. The research allowed to answer why waste management is unusual in the respect that a specific legal regulation regime is applied and why circular economy implementation begins from stricter waste management requirements.