The interpretation and application of the European Union law, including the caselaw of the Court of Justice of the European Union, by the arbitral tribunals is a subject which is little approached. This is due on the one hand as a result of the confidentiality of the arbitration awards and on the other hand to the specificity of the legal order of the European Union and of the International commercial arbitration. This article aims to illustra...

This study, part of a broader project aiming to analyze the content of the rights of the artists and their status, render an overview of the patrimonial rights of the Romanian artists: the use right and the resale right. Keywords:

The purpose of the study is to analyze the answer of the judiciary practice to the issue of sanctioning a less ”orthodox” manner of defrauding the unsecured creditors – by allotting and grouping the ”undesirable” creditors to a certain entity resulted from a division, followed by a collective procedure. This ”modus operandi” is more frequently used whereas the unsecured creditors lack the effective procedures – oposition to division –...

The General meeting of shareholders is one of the most important events in the life of a joint-stock company, during which the most important decisions for the functioning of the company are taken. These decisions represent the collective will expressed by the vote of shareholders given directly, by mail or through a proxy. ...

Withdrawal and expulsion have effects not only over one’s position as a member of a company, by ceasing the membership, but also over the net assets of the issuer of the respective shares, own by the withdrawn or expelled member. These are acquired by the issuer, which either cancel them, either keep them as treasury.Due to the fact that members’corporate claims are satisfied over the very issuer, the question raised is the protection o...

The study critically analyzes the text of art. 207, para. (1) of Law no. 71/2011 for the implementation of Law no. 287/2009 on the Civil Code, according to which the new rules of conflict will immediately apply in all cases when the submission of the claim in front of the court or other competent authority was registered after the date of entry into force of the new Civil Code (1 October 2011). The legislator does not refer to the date when th...

The institution of legal set off suffered several modifications during the transition from the old Civil Code to the new Civil Code. Some alterations were foreseeable and understandable; others were the illustration of a sinuous legislative dynamics.The combination between national legislative “mutations”, bankruptcy rules related to compensation, and European rules regarding set off will generate “the recipe for success”. The issue is w...

The purpose of this paper is to identify and investigate the current status of arbitral institutions’ and arbitration courts’ authority to sanction violations of unethical lawyers in cases of conflicts of interest. The parties have a fundamental right to choose their lawyer and also an independent and impartial tribunal, therefore the power source of the arbitral tribunal to exclude/disqualify a lawyer requires clarifications, since lately it h...

Brussels I Regulation establishes a system for recognition and enforcement of judgments coming from courts of the Member States within the European Union in civil and commercial matters. Following article 73 of the Regulation, its applicability was analyzed after a period of fi ve years from its entry into force. In general, it facilitated cross-border litigation, but its applicability has been criticized, among others, in relation to exclusiv...

In 2010 the European Commission prepared a Report on the application of Brussels I Regulation as it was required by article 73 of the same Regulation. In its Report the Commission proposed several changes to be brought to the Regulation in order to improve its applicability and achieve its objectives, those of avoiding parallel proceedings and irreconcilable judgments within the courts of the Member States and providing an area of free movemen...