The Bremen and others v. Zapata Off-Shore Co. case could be contemplated as a purely foreign trade case and not as international trade one. This article focuses on the idea that foreign trade and international trade are two different areas.Their interplay, if any, amounts to another idea; that is to sustain that the Bremen and others v. Zapata Off-Shore Co. case can be regarded as a particular stance of the transnationa...

The present study takes into account the recent case law of EU courts and the practice of the Commission and of the Romanian Competition Council with regards to the concepts of party to the agreement and „facilitator” of the agreement, by puting forward arguments in the sense that for the responsability of an undertaking for its involvement in an anticompetitive agreement to be established it is not neccessary for the said undertaking to be a...

In the concern to define the acquittal behavior of the public notary – a provider of legal advice – the author insists on the prior obligation of investigation that the notary must fulfill before providing the required service; the rule is deduced from the general concept of legal guarantee that he (the notary) must offer; the rule is adapted accordingly to the procedures for authentication of sales and real estate mortgages; the task of verif...

The financial system has a key role to play in transforming the economy into a more efficient and sustainable one, by reorienting private capital towards sustainable investment and encouraging more transparency. The consideration of sustainability factors in the decision-making process and investment advisory process can realise superior benefits. This can increase the resilience of the real economy and the stability of the financial system. T...

The study bases the model of correct behavior of the consultant providing legal services – exonerating behavior of civil liability – on the idea of intellectual enterprise; it is argued that the contract for services regulations are common law in matters of legal advice; two specific professional obligations are deduced from this concept: the efficiency obligation to the legal act performed (proposed) and the obligation of loyal advice; the pr...

The point is to show that a text never says just one thing, as we were taught in our law schools, in the fi rst year, that meaning is something that is constructed, that the very texts we are reading and under whose power we live are and always have been battlefields, that behind them there are long histories of battles and conflicts, briefly, that legal interpretation is produced in a „field of pain and death”.

I try (…) with variable success, to write by maintaining a necessary balance, inevitably fragile, between positive law and constitutional history/theory/sociology. Keywords: reflexive interdisciplinarity, branches of...

A study of private law should be written with the conviction, even with the wrong conviction, that it can change the way the legal literature and the case-law see that topic. What I want to underline is that the psycological state of the one who tries to demonstrate an idea counts as much as his or her intellectual capacity or the bibliography that he or she consulted. This state, which I would dare to call „of grace”, could be decisive for or...

Because I want to communicate my ideas as briefly and clearly as possible, writing is laborious. Some problems are difficult or difficult to grasp, and in such cases I insist on them as long as it is necessary. I don’t lose patience and I don’t skip them superficially just to gain time.

[F]or whom do we motivate the arbitral awards? To explain to the claimant why he won? To explain to the respondent why he lost? To protect the arbitral award against the risk of being annulled or not being enforced, by considering the mentality of the judges in front of which it will be brought? To create doctrine of private international law or international commercial law? To write good legal literature, with which to be associated over the...