The terrible War in Ukraine calls into question something that many have long regretted: Europe’s historical acceptance of a secondary role on the world geostrategic map. The fatal context only promoted the word sovereignty, which continued to gain prominence until it became perhaps the most cited word in any meeting about the future of the continent. At first it seems clear that sovereignty comes from the people, but this questio...

This essay represents an attempt to highlight, from a legal and philosophical perspective, the most significant contradictions that can affect justice during a period of social crisis, namely the era of postmodernism. The object of our analysis is: normativism and legal formalism, the ideology of globalization, the contradiction between the consecration and guarantee of citizen rights and the restriction of their exercise through excess...

Although the application of the specific mechanisms of restorative justice to conflict situations would present indisputable advantages, we will have to note that restorative justice is not a priority for the national legislator, an extended regulation can bring multiple advantages, including at the level of the judicial system. Constantly, at the level of all contemporary legal systems, clear efforts have been made to improve t...

The article pleads for compliance with the principle of legality, considering that the law has a certain degree of relativity, determined by its very interpretable character. Noticing this vulnerability of the law, the courts, in particular, experience the subtle limit between interpretation and legal creation, attempting to embrace the role of legislative authority. Often, ignoring the first side of the principle of legality – complianc...

Modern economies rely heavily on private undertakings to decide what goods to produce and trade, what kind of projects to invest in, and where all these activities should take place. As a rule, competition between undertakings spurs investment and innovation, which theoretically benefits the population. Nevertheless, governments often interfere in markets through their regulatory power, pursuing goals that have nothing to do with econom...

Property, approached from an economic standpoint, preceded its legal regulation, which means that it is not law that creates property, but rather the role of the legislature is to protect, to create the legal conditions for its exercise, for observing the prerogatives belonging to the owner with regard to his property. There is an indissoluble link between legal rules and economic and social reality, in the sense that law must co...

Ensuring a legal framework necessary to purchase goods, services and works in conditions of economic and social efficiency based on principles of good practice has seen a continuous debate from the regulation of the way of public procurement, the procedures for awarding public procurement contracts and organization of solution contests, the specific tools and techniques that can be used for awarding public procurement contracts, as wel...

During the works, we analyzed the role of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the evolution of the right to a healthy environment, starting from the interpretation and application of the already famous article 8 paragraph 1 of the European Convention, according to the way „any person has the right to respect” his private and family life, his domicile and correspondence”. The jurisprudence developed ...

The first part of the analysis focuses on the concept of „terrorism” and „organized crime” as seen through a series of international documents, works and governmental institutions dedicated to the prevention and fighting of terrorism. Next, the national and international juridical frameworks which incriminate terrorism and organized crime are being presented and studied. In the end, the work shows the contribution of foren...

With respect to the damages caused by breaching industrial property rights, the extent to which the provisions of article 14 of OUG no. 100/2005 are also applicable when the deed is committed with fault, represent the object of a series of analysis in the legal literature and case law. The High Court of Cassation and Justice has answered this question in the affirmative. Given the complexity of the analysed problem, we deem it useful to...