January 2015 - june 2015

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2 January 2015 – June 2015

SCIENTIFIC LIFE

JANUARY 2015 – JUNE 2015

On February 10th, 2015, the Legal Research Institute “Acad. Andrei Rdulescu”

of the Romanian Academy, in collaboration with the Union of Jurists of Romania,

has commemorated prof. Constatin Bosianu (1815 -1882), founding personality of

the Romanian legal culture, high legal education and science of law.

Held in the Aula of the Academy, the event gathered high representatives of

all legal professions and fields of law, including academics, law enforcement and

public authorities. As a scope of research and action of C. Bosianu extends from the

practice of law, as attorney, to law professor and creator of law – being one of the

main authors of the Romanian Civil code of 1864 – he is considered to be, along

with other prominent individuals of his generation, one of the founders of the

modern Romanian state.

On April 12th, 2015, the Legal Research Institute “Acad. Andrei Rdulescu” of

the Romanian Academy, the “Titu Maiorescu” University of Bucharest and the

Union of Jurists of Romania, have launched, the national research program

Enciclopedia Juridic Român – Romanian Legal Encyclopedia. Proposed as a joint effort

of all professional, scientific and academic bodies in the field of law, this

encyclopedia is both an alphabetically ordered dictionary of legal terms, but also a

statement of the Romanian legal culture and doctrine, as consolidated in the past

150 years.

According to the initiators of this project, Romanian law find itself today in a

vital turning point, generated mostly by the adoption of the new codes – civil and

civil procedure, criminal and criminal procedure – the legal doctrine needs new

scientific landmarks in its development. Therefore, a systematization of a

centuries-old scientific and pragmatic tradition can prove to be a most useful tool

to the creation and establishment of a new legal order, from the European

perspective and the current globalization phenomenon.

By reuniting legal specialists, both academics and practitioners, this national

effort of offering a structured vision of Romanian law is to be qualified also as a

tribute to the 100 years that have passed since the Unification of all Romanian

territories in one state – 1918.

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On April 24th, 2015, the Romanian Parliament served as host to the national

conference debate “Justice’s Role in the System of State Powers”, organized by the

Association of Romanina Magistrates, the Legal, Discipline and Immunities

Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, the Union of Justice of Romanian –

“Dreptul” Publishing and the Legal Research Institute “Acad. Andrei Rdulescu of

the Romanian Academy”. The scientific event focused mainly on the manners in

which justice functions according to the principle of separation and balance of

powers in the state, in the context of a democratic constitutional system.

Apart from the chairman of the conference, Prof. univ. dr. Ovidiu Predescu,

director of the “Dreptul” Publishings, the other speakers, all judges of different

grades of jurisdiction, were namely: Andreea Ciuc, Florin Encescu, Amelia

Farmathy, Elena Hach, Alina Macavei, Dan Constantin Mâ, Aida Rodica Popa,

and German judge Dieter Schlafen, honorary member of the Association of

Romanian Magistrates.