Using the author’s own experience throughout twenty of the thirty years of post-1989 Romanian legislation, this article analyses the ways in which those entitled to initiate draft normative acts, learn to do so by drafting and substantiating them, so that, after their entry into force, they can achieve their initial purpose. The examples used, highlight the not only the multitude and unpredictability of the rules, which lead to legal uncertai...

The insolvency always represented one of the issues of the economic and social life which have constantly concerned the legislator, from the period prior to the year 1989, when it did not benefit from autonomous norms, until the current regulation of the prevention of the insolvency and insolvency proceedings, when we can speak about a real insolvency law. The freedom of trade, the dinamism of the commercial relations more and more comp...

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 Regulation ...

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 reasonable do...

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 July 2...

I intend to describe the „meeting with the law” from the perspective of any given individual. For her or him, „the meeting with the law” means experiencing the consequences of the law, at the end of a chain of human interactions, with variable length and complexity. The legal literature maps only one segment or few segments of this chain of human interactions. ...

Legal research can be surprising: as explicit and adapted are some provisions for the recipients needs, as reglementations of other areas may be difficult and even absurd. Keywords: legal research, franchise, regulation...

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 situation:...

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 procedure.

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 their m...