Practices
Katrine Plavina, Mag.iur.
Associate
Katrine assists clients in drafting tenderers' complaints regarding public procurement awards and has advised one of the Latvia's mobile network operators in a licensing dispute.
Katrine Plavina is also an experienced administrative law practitioner. Katrine’s excellent research skills and sharp mind have contributed to her litigation capability.
As part of the University of Latvia's team, she has won the Telder’s International Moot Court Competition Max Huber Award for the Best Overall Score in 2008 and the Baltic Cup in Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition in 2009. Katrine assists clients in the areas of public procurement, administrative and commercial law on a daily basis. In 2010 Katrine won weekly magazine's Jurista Vārds award for the best research paper and was nominated the "Lawyer of the week".
Career
2011 to date Associate, Law Firm VARUL
2010-2011 Associate, Varul Vilgerts Smaliukas
2010 Short-term Consultant, World Bank's Public Sector Group (PREM PS) on Public Accountability Mechanisms (PAM) initiative
2010 Trainee, European Court of Human Rights, Legal division
2007 President, Student Union of Latvia
2007 Judges Assistant, Administrative Regional Court
2006 National Legal Assistant, OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission of the 2006 Latvian Saeima elections
Education
2011 University of Latvia, LL.M.
2009 Utrecht University, studies within the framework of Erasmus/Lifelong Learning program
Languages
Latvian
Russian
English
Publications
- Transforming norms of international and European Union law into the Latvian legal system// Jurista Vārds, 25.01.2011, No.4.
- How to solve collisions of Latvian, international and EU law// Jurista Vārds, 17.05.2011, No.20.
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