Sources of administrative law in Lithuania and Latvia

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ENThe aim of this article is to present a historically comparative background of the development of legal doctrine and legal norms about the sources of administrative law in two Baltic countries – Lithuania and Latvia. The authors analyse points of view and legal regulation on the sources of administrative law in Rome, France, Lithuania and Latvia. The research done can be of major importance for the improvement theory of administrative law, as well as in the practice of law appliers how to use the sources of administrative law. The authors outline the common understanding of the sources of administrative law in the legal environment of the European Union and the differences in constitutional regulation in Lithuania and Latvia for the hierarchy of legal acts, where in the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia there is no legal norm on legal acts as it is done in Article 7 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania. The article conveys the opinion that the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia should have regulations on legal acts and their force. [From the publication]