Is it good or not good to introduce into human consumption genetically modified foods or partially containing ingredients derived from genetic modifications? This article outlines both the advantages, risks, and disadvantages of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The conclusion reached is that, in the long term, the invasion of GMOs into human food is not recommended, given the possible existing risks and some of them scientifically proven...

In this article, base d on an examination of Romanian neoliberal reforms on‘housing’, I debunk several posts 1989 myths related to private, individual property. In the senses famously articulated by David Harvey, I argue that the post 1989 Romanian radical neoliberal project in law (and economy) is at once a political practice and a utopia. At the utopian level, this project creates a fictional socialist era legal reality that it purports...

The article analyzes the judicial system of the European Union and the categories of legal actions that are subject to the analysis of the European courts. This judicial system, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court, are intended to defend citizens’ rights, restoring the rule of law, through various types of actions, aimed at ensuring compliance with EU law and its uniform enforcement, to delimit competences between...

The litteris contracts appeared in an era in which we see the transition from the excessive formalism, specific to the old ius civile, to the specific consensualism to classical Roman Law. In the ancient era of Roman Law, legal acts were concluded only with the observance of strict formal conditions, to the detriment of the real will of the parties. Along with the evolution of legal ideas, the Romans understood the role that the agreement of wi...

The idea of the study started from the fact that the exception to the principle regarding the matrimonial age concerns the marriage of a natural person who, in the Romanian legal system, has the legal status of a child, a status that entails the corresponding incidence of both the legal provisions that enshrine this exception and those regarding the protection and promotion of children’s rights. From the second category, we mainly consider th...

During the last decade, we are living under the influence of technology. Our activities are becoming more and more digitalized, and activities in the justice sector are no exception to this. However, compared to other fields, the representatives of the judiciary, being more conservative by nature of their occupation, often hesitate to accept or promote the use of technology. Thus, this article comes to support the effort to technol...

Printre semnalele tot mai insistente perceptibile în analizele privind starea și evoluţiile (posibile) ale juridicului unul devine din ce în ce mai insistent și generează deopotrivă interogaţii și preocupări: ne îndreptăm spre o „lume fără drept” dar supusă „drepturilor”, adică unei game heteroclite de revendicări emanate de la indivizi sau grupuri cu motivaţii și interese diverse, schimbătoare, contradictorii, imprecise? Punându-și și încercând să răspundă unei atari chestiuni, deopotrivă, atât de crucială și de actuală, profesorul de drept public al economiei, Stéphane Braconnier, președintele U...

The rule of law has been a long-standing priority for the European Union andrespect for this value has been a major concern for the European Commission. In this respect, several preventive and punitive legal means have been promoted over the years which should help to guarantee and protect the values of the European Union, including the rule of law. This article provides an overview of these mechanisms, of how they have been implemented a...

The article analyzes how the precautionary principle is applied in the field of public procurement. In this sense, in order to ensure the legality and transparency of the award, as well as the legal and appropriate execution of the object of the investment, the contracting authority is bound by the precautionary principle, which imposes the obligation to investigate, if not in the case of all bidders, in the evaluation stage of technical propos...

There are many cases in which the criminal action is initiated ex officio, for crimes in which there are no injured individuals. Some cases are finalized through acquittal solutions, after which the state would be obliged to answer patrimonially for the damages caused by judicial errors, according to the constitutional provisions. Part of these damages consist of legal expenses, which include attorney’s fees, travel and accommodation expenses...