The use of personal data is inevitable in any human activity, and, even more so, in educational, didactic activity. The teacher-student relationship subscribes not only to rules on education but also to compliance with national and European regulations. This is the main relationship established in education, but education is an equation with many factors and even more unknowns. The entry into force and implementation of the General Regu...

The commission of a crime obliges the state to take measures to establish the circumstances that determined it and to identify the perpetrator, in order to finally order, if it is necessary, to engage his criminal liability and apply a penalty provided by the law. The conviction of the defendant for committing a crime may be ordered, according to art. 103 para. (2) C. pr. pen., only if the judicial bodies prove, beyond any reason...

Soon after the end of the state of emergency determined by the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, the Constitutional Court ruled on the provisions that would have allowed the Minister of Health to impose the involuntary hospitalization in the case of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2. The declaration of unconstitutionality of article 25 (2) the second thesis of Law no. 95/2006 on health care reform led to the enactment of the Law no. 136 of 16...

The general data protection regulation is the culmination of much tougher legislation in this area. Most of the companies established according to Law no. 31/1990 does not have to take special measures to comply with this legislation, but all companies must be diligent in their dealings with data subjects and the national supervisory authority. More needs to be done to raise awareness of the obligations in this area, involving authoriti...

The article discusses the possibility for the third party to recover his own legal costs from the losing party, in the case of admissible accessory requests for voluntary intervention. The author notes that in practice this problem has been solved differently, a reason for which he argues in favour of the need to bring an appeal in the interest of the law to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, in order to ensure the correct and con...

The regulation by means of rules of matters that depend on circumstances, such as freedom of expression, is atypical and contraindicated. It involves difficulties for most jurists who have been trained in the spirit of faithfulness toward the text of the rules. The author distinguishes between legislation through rules and legislation through principles, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of these methods in a particular sit...

Emphasizing the importance of complying with the legislative procedure, as a premise for ensuring quality legislation and as a guarantee of legal certainty, the article presents situations in which the Constitutional Court has found, through the systematic interpretation of the rules which ensure the constitutional framework in the field, the unconstitutionality of some laws/ legal provisions on grounds related to the legislative proce...

Considered to be the most important decision up to now of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in the field of environmental law, the decisions of April 29th, 2021, by which certain provisions of the law regarding climate protection of 2019 have been declared unconstitutional, is a continuation of the previous European precedents (especially the Dutch experience – the „Urgenda” case, and the French “Affaire du siècle”), enriches ...

Some of the more or less recent evolutions of the political philosophy can be interpreted as an attempt to overcome the modernity. According to them, the western countries that have been conceived as modern states should enter into a new phase of evolution, the postmodern one. This would suppose a new kind of state, the postmodern state, whose constitutional law would be different from that of a modern liberal state. The evolution is on...

The issuance of administrative acts aimed at reducing salaries for past periods is based on the breach of the obligation of good administration and the principles of protection of legitimate expectations, legal certainty, non-retroactivity and recognition of acquired rights, as well as excess of power, all corroborated with error communis facit ius. The retroactive application of such administrative acts means, in our view, an intolerab...