This paper examines the adoption of blockchain technology in the public sector of Georgia, focusing particularly on its application within the land registry system, and offers a comparative perspective with Russia as a representative BRICS country. Georgia’s pioneering initiative to integrate blockchain into real estate registration – developed in collaboration with the Bitfury Group and the National Agency of Public Registry – has posi...

The issue of compatibility between insolvency law and other branches of law is a complex one and necessarily requires complex solutions, the identification of such solutions often requiring an in-depth analysis. The study analyzes the interferences between criminal law and criminal procedure law, on the one hand, and insolvency procedure, on the other hand, with regard to precautionary measures, taking into account doctrinal disputes, no...

Artificial Intelligence is not the future of justice, but its discreet present. It is being adopted within legal systems, promising greater efficiency, cost reduction, and improved access to justice. Algorithms are already used for contract analysis, decision prediction and the assessment of recidivism risk. However, this technological transformation raises fundamental ethical challenges: bias, discrimination, technical opacity and uncertainty ...

The On Air Media Professionals and Different Media judgments bring to the forefront, with the finesse of a reflection on meaning and justice, the fragile balance between legal expressions and the legitimate trust of those who rely upon it. Both cases originated from an apparently minor translation error in the Romanian version of Commission Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014 (the General Block Exemption Regulation – GBER), where th...

The law of political economy can be assessed as a genuine framework of conflict of laws. The purpose of this paper is to show how this framework works, with particular focus on the conflict of laws in the field of contracts concluded by consumers and professionals. The quasi-federal nature of the European Union law has encouraged this approach mainly by reference to the Rome I Regulation.In addition, the concept of “social market economy”...

The pre-pack procedure constitutes one of the innovations introduced under the Proposal for a Directive on the harmonisation of insolvency law. Positioned at the intersection between restructuring and bankruptcy, and strongly shaped by the time-sensitive nature of distressed situations, the pre-pack procedure seeks to regulate an area that has traditionally remained in the penumbra of formal insolvency proceedings, being exposed to the risk of...

The study provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the bank guarantee letter as an autonomous personal security under Romanian civil law, widely used in commercial transactions and public procurement. The author emphasizes its defining features – autonomy, irrevocability, and unconditionality – which fundamentally distinguish it from suretyship and other accessory guarantees. The paper examines the contractual and legal framework governing b...

The article analyzes the issue of personal data confidentiality concerning the managers of legal entities, situated at the intersection between the fundamental right to privacy and the increasingly stringent demands of economic and administrative transparency. In the context of the digitalization of public registers and the development of data-processing technologies, the disclosure of personal information belonging to administrators, director...