The criminal trial represents the activity through which the facts that constitute crimes are ascertained in a timely and concrete manner, thus making it possible to establish the criminal liability of the guilty person on a procedural path that includes the criminal investigation, the preliminary chamber, the trial and the execution of the criminal court decisions. Each procedural stage regulates a distinct phase of examining or solvin...

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...

The political parties have developed at a spectacular pace, managing in less than a century and a half since their appearance to spread throughout the entire world and to become indispensable political and legal institutions for the functioning of democratic regimes. Considered a „necessary evil”, today, political parties represent valuable tools available to the governors and, equally, a bond between them and the governed. This present article...

The Romanian Constitution uses a simple and efficient procedure for regulating the restriction of the exercise of certain rights and freedoms (common circumstances), through the provisions of a single article. The provisions of art. 53 allow the restriction of the exercise of some fundamental rights and freedoms, but only conditionally. The issue of interpretation and application of the provisions of art. 53 presents a special complexity becau...

The pervasive assertion and emergence of evolved forms of AI offer tremendous opportunities for innovation and growth, but at the same time they also generate dangers, unprecedented in nature and scope for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Governing the multiple challenges thus generated requires the intervention of regulation, by establishing and complying with voluntary ethical and legal norms. An instrument for regulating human...

In this article, aspects related to the abusive exercise of the „right to access the Internet” are analyzed from the perspective of committing crimes that affect the mental freedom of the person. Thus, the offense of harassment is studied in the mitigating version, regulated by art. 208 paragraph. 2 C. pen., being brought to light a series of interesting aspects regarding the need to amend the criminal legislation in order to align the legal t...

This study aims to approach some aspects specific to the legal proceedings in which the partial nullity of a legal act / contract is requested, mainly those related to establishing the essential or determining character of the clause allegedly affected by nullity, a determining character that must exist a priori, at the time of the conclusion of the act, for both contracting parties, not just for one of them, in order to prevent partial nullit...

In the context of last year’s amendments to Law 85/2014 on Insolvency and Insolvency Prevention Proceedings and Other Legislation („Insolvency Law”), inter alia, new instruments have been introduced providing companies in financial distress but viable with the opportunity to have access to effective preventive restructuring frameworks that enable them to operate in full or in part via measures such as adjusting the business, the asset and liab...

The court’s disposition to return the forced execution, following the abolition of the enforceable title or the enforcement itself, leads to the creation of a new paradigm, in which the creditor of the forced execution, whose patrimony has increased, becomes the debtor of the obligation of restitution, to the debtor of the forced execution, who becomes – in turn – the creditor of the restitution obligation. The natural consequence o...