Faculty, Administration

Aleksandrs Potaičuks PhD

Bachelor Programme Director. Assistant Professor
Administrative Law, Procedure and Fair Trial. Privacy and EU Data Protection. European Union Law
Office
Wallenberg Building, 5th floor

Doctor of Laws (University of Latvia, 2020)
Doctoral Erasmus+ exchange (Lund University in Sweden, 2019)
Master of Laws (University of Latvia, 2014)

Significant Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor (Docent), Riga Graduate School of Law, 2023 - Present
  • Judicial Counsellor, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia, 2021-2024
  • Visiting Lecturer, Visiting Docent, Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018–2023
  • Judicial Counsellor, Supreme Court, the Department of Civil Cases, 2020-2021
  • Liaison officer, Supreme Court of Latvia – Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the EU, 2014-2021
  • Judicial Counsellor, Supreme Court, the Analytical Unit of the Supreme Court, 2016-2020
  • Judge's Assistant, Supreme Court, the Department of the Administrative Cases, 2014-2016
  • Consultant, Supreme Court, the Department of the Administrative Cases, 2012-2014
  • Internship at University of Eastern Finland; Supreme Court of the Czech Republic; Supreme Court of Lithuania; Lund University, 2014-2020

Current research

  • Nord-Baltic cooperation
  • Court Administration and Fair Trial
  • Recognition of Foreign Administrative acts and Qualifications 
  • European Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure
  • Data Protection and Privacy  

Main publications

  • Kaplane, Anastasija, Aleksandrs Potaičuks. "Latvia". In: Public Digitalisation in a legal perspective: Status, challenges and opportunities for Nordic-Baltic cooperation.  Copenhagen: Nordisk Ministerråd, 2024. ISSN 0908-6692
  • Doctoral dissertation: Foreign Administrative Acts in Latvia and the European Union
  • Co-author of the book: Article 105 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia: Right to property. Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Riga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2023. ISBN 978-9934-621-15-4
  • Co-author of the book: Medical law. Second edition. Riga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2022. ISBN 978-9934-621-01-7
  • Co-author of the book: Article 91 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia: the principle of legal equality. Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Riga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2022. ISBN 978-9934-508-99-8
  • Co-author of the EU Law Textbook: European Union Law. Part II. Substantial Law. Riga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2016. 978-9934-508-30-1
  • Co-author of the EU Law Textbook: European Union Law. Part I. Institutional Law. Riga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2014. ISBN 978-9934-508-16-5.

International and national training programmes

  • Since 2016: lecturer at the Latvian Judicial Training Center
  • 2023: Lecturer in the intensive program of the Riga Graduate School of Law in European law and economics for the partner countries of the Eastern Partnership
  • 2019: Latvian expert in the European Union project strengthening the institutional capacity of the Supreme Court of Ukraine in the field of human rights protection

Additional training

  • 2023: Linköping University and Swedish Institute intensive course: Sustainable e-Governance for Resilient and Innovative Democratic Public Administration
  • 2022: Lund University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Swedish Institute intensive course: Perspectives on Multi-level Governance, Decentralisation and Human Rights
  • 2020 – 2021: Academy of European Law (ERA) courses in EU State Aid Litigation; Applying the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; Cross-border inheritance in the EU; Digital forensics; European Tax Law with a Special Focus on Value Added Tax; European Company Law and Trade Secrets