Professor, rector and the creator of Lithuanian constitutional law, Mykolas Romeris was born in 1880, in Bagdoniškės (Rokiškis region)

An offspring of noblemen, M. Romeris graduated from the St. Petersburg Imperial School of Law. Later, he studied history in the Philosophy faculty at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the Paris School of Political Science.

After his long studies, he settled down in Vilnius. Here, he participated in social and public activities and became an active preserver of Lithuanian nationality.

During the interwar period, M. Romeris worked as a lawyer for the Lithuanian Tribunal and later was appointed a member of the state council. He represented Lithuania at the International Hague Tribunal of Justice. M. Romeris contributed to Lithuania’s victory in a case concerning the destiny of the Klaipėda region.

M. Romeris also carried out scientific pedagogical work at the Lithuanian Faculty of Law. He prepared and published many monographs and works.

M. Romeris scholarly interests included administrative, crown, international and other branches of law and the problems of historical science, but most broadly, he analyzed constitutional law. Even today, he is universally accepted as an authority in this area.

M. Romeris was the first to lecture on constitutional law for Lithuanian students; the creators of the Constitution of Independent Lithuania cited his works.