Egils Levits
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Egils Levits is a Latvian judge, legal expert, and politician born in 1955 who has held significant positions in his country's legal and political systems. He matters because he represents Latvia's leadership in the judiciary and governance during a key period in the country's modern history.
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- 1955-06-30
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- Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research
· 2017 · cited 2,197x
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· 2011 · cited 1,634x
- Creation and analysis of biochemical constraint-based models using the COBRA Toolbox v.3.0
· 2019 · cited 1,149x
- Darolutamide in Nonmetastatic, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
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Egils Levits (born 30 June 1955) is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist, and jurist who served as the tenth president of Latvia from 2019 to 2023. He was a member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019.
During the late Soviet-era, he was a member of the Popular Front of Latvia and contributed to the declaration of restored Latvian independence in 1990. He was vice-prime minister and minister for justice of Latvia from 1993 to 1994 and ambassador to Hungary, Austria and Switzerland from 1994 to 1995. He was then appointed a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, a position he held until 2004. He finished second in the indirect election for the president of Latvia in 2015, behind Raimonds Vējonis. Although an Independent, he was the candidate of the National Alliance. In 2018, Levits was reappointed a judge of the European Court of Justice, having first been appointed in 2004. He is married and has two children: a son, Linards, and daughter, Indra. He published a book of memoirs in 2019.
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