Agris Bitāns

Agris Bitāns is lector at the Faculty of Law at the University of Latvia. His area of expertise is the law of obligations, with a focus on contract law and civil liability, tort law, intellectual property law and Roman law. He is a co-author of the commentaries on the Latvian Civil Code, the book ‘Problems of Contract Law and Tort Law in European Union and Latvia’ and co-author of the commentaries on Section 2 and 8 of the Latvian Constitution. He is the author of the book ‘Civil liability and its kinds’ and of many articles relating to law issues. He is Attorney at Law and a member of the Latvian Bar, International Bar Association and AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property).

My fields of legal research include civil liability (contract and tort law), personality law, medical law, non-pecuniary loss and media law, as well intellectual property law.