I belong to those who believe that all words, said or written, trigger the moral responsibility of the author. The words come from our inner writing and are meant to be printed in the mind of the reader. (…) The conclusion belongs to the reader, but exposing the reasoning is in the hands of the author.

Writing is easy. What’s actually difficult is to prepare for it. This preliminary stage consists, in fact, in reading. If you don’t have the time to read, you will not have the time – and more importantly, the tools – to write. One’s writing style is the reflection of one’s readings. The power of literature (legal, but especially non-legal) is slowly leaving its mark on us and, over time, stimulates us to write better.

Writing is as important for the discipline of an academic profession as is reading.But they are stages radically different, if not even opposed within the rhythm of academic life. A day that starts with going through bibliography, with checking sources or looking for the texts referred to by sources, or with reading texts which inevitably catch your attention, is a day which is lost for writing. Receptivity towards something new and cur...

Regardless whether you write for practitioners or for the academic environment, it is an exercise of great responsibility to review the text before publishing it. This is writing hygiene. It gives one the chance to detect not only spelling errors, but also judgment errors. (…) I am not always successful with this, precisely because writing rather gets me tired than attracts me. However, happily the safety net works because there was always so...

By its very function and training, the notary is a man of legal „express”, of explicit formulations. (…) A seeker of the causal relation, who will never be able to detach from it. Although abstraction could help him, he ignores it, and prefers to look, confused, for the validity of the causal relation underlying the document he is drafting. He is easily afraid and take exaggerate precautions. His anatomy impedes creativity, so he prefers well...

The article represents an analysis of the legal nature and validity of the futures contract with negative price, where the seller pays a sum of money to the acquirer, as well as of the particularities and legal regime of this type of contract. The starting point of the analysis was the fall of the oil price below zero dollars per barrel on the US futures market, for the first time in history. This decrease was caused by the imminence of high s...

Towards the end of 2019, certain amendments have been brought to the regulation of franchising in Romania. Without representing a paradigm change – otherwise impossible, considering the European franchising regulation, as an exception from the restrictions set out by the competition legislation (although softened throughout the years) – the changes must be taken into account. Setting out certain obligations which did not exist, or existed in u...

In the context of the compulsory insurances against civil liability for the damages caused to third parties by vehicle and tram accidents (RCA), the direct compensation service represents an alternative method available to the injured person for obtaining the payment of the damage, involving the assessment of the damage claim by the injured person’s own RCA insurer and a subsequent settlement between this insurer and the RCA insurer of the pe...

With the purpose of ensuring a unique internal market for all Member States of the European Union, governed by the free movement of persons and judgments principle, the European legislator has adopted numerous regulations on private international law, which attempt to solve, in a uniform manner, the conflict of laws arising out of private legal relations with foreign elements. In this article, we will examine the uniform rules for solving con...

The European Data Protection Board („EDPB”), the European Union’s independent body mandated to ensure the consistent application of Regulation no. 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data („GDPR”), issued, in May 2020, new specific guidelines for the interpretation and application of the GDPR provisions on consent for processing personal data. This articl...