Directive (EU) no. 2023/2673 regarding distance financial services contracts (NDCD) significantly modernizes the European regulations on distance financial services contracts. The NDCD extends its scope to a wide range of financial services, including innovative ones, by providing a minimum level of consumer protection. The Directive imposes increased transparency requirements for pre-contractual information, strengthens the right of withdrawal...

The adoption and implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/1760, known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), represent a major legal innovation at the European Union level. This directive institutionalizes a due diligence obligation for corporate sustainability, transitioning from soft law principles to binding legal norms. By integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into corporate responsibi...

The protection of minors is a fundamental objective of society and the state must ensure appropriate legal measures in this regard. Moreover, the contemporary reality demonstrates a significant increase in the incidence of domestic violence, which deeply affects children. Thus, there is a multiplication of forms of physical, sexual, psychological, emotional violence, directed at children in the context of family relations, which generates ser...

This article aims to analyze what would be the legal framework for the offense of a defendant to consume alcohol or psychoactive substances after a traffic accident, resulting in property damage or (and) with the killing or injury of a person, given that several legislative changes have occurred in this regard. This crime was re-criminalized as such by Law no. 200/2023 through the provisions of art. 3361 of the Criminal Code, but even aft...

The study presents in the following a systemic analysis of the tax provisions in the case presented in terms of taking over tax obligations according to art. 23 of the Fiscal Procedure Code. The normative act regulates the procedures on the one hand but also the rights and obligations of the parties in legal relations, the state and taxpayers. The role and obligation of the state to take all due care to achieve and fulfill the legal obli...

The practice trend in the area of expropriation converges in the way that the atypical forms of expropriation including the situation of regulating the use of the good require appropriate remedies when the owner has lost the benefit of the possibility of using one of the attributes of the property right, but also the chance, the opportunity to develop the investment. Remedies must be granted when the owner can no longer exercise the attribute ...

This article provides a detailed analysis of the procedure of recognition and enforcement (exequatur) of foreign commercial arbitral awards in Romania. In Section I, the analysis starts with the determination of the conditions for the recognition and enforcement of a foreign arbitral award in Romania, based on the applicable legislation, i.e. the 1958 New York Convention and Art. 1124-1133 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Then, on the bas...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in many ways in the work process. The literature indicates that the impact of AI on human work is reduced to the use of computational methods that rely on the collection and processing of data to take specificactions. Nowadays, we see the increasing importance of algorithmic management in labor relations using AI mechanisms to plan or evaluate the work of employees. Psychosocial risks in the workplace ca...

The article is a plea for the individualization of a distinct legal science, victimology, especially in the current social context when the interest and concerns regarding the victim issue, the short-term and long-term impact that the criminal act has on it, have increased. The delimitation of victimology from criminology as an independent science, with a specific object of study, functions, appropriate analysis methods and techniques ...

The concerns about the fitness for purpose of the present British constitutional arrangements are exaggerated. The leadership shown by the courts, especially the UK Supreme Court, shows that a written constitution is not needed. Governmental action is always subject to review in the courts and whatever strategy a government may choose for the purpose of avoiding fundamental rights or other basic constitutional principles, the courts always hav...