This study reveals two issues: a perspective on the common legislation of Romanian private international law after 1989 and the constitutional base of Romanian private international law, by reference to the Romanian Constitution of 1991. The original idea of the study is that it shows a new conception of relevant constitutional terms in respect of the alien and the citizen, from a perspective of private international law.

The article emphasizes the characteristics of the post-89 legislative process, and especially the role of the Constitution in the national law system: is the Constitution part of the legislative system? Can judges apply the Constitution in the litigations they decide on? Can the Constitution be the only legal basis for a judgment? The author proposes a change of perspective: instead of defining legislation as the positive law of...

This paper analyses the right to education, as it is provided for in European documents (Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and Article 14 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) as well as in national documents (Constitution of Romania, Article 32 „Right to education”), from the point of view of the interpretation given to it by th...