We have been taught to assess international law as being the exclusive ’product’ of the nation-States. In the 21st century, international law became the ‘product’ of the private actors also. At least in the area of commercial life, the concept of ‘transnational law’ encourages such private actors to issue specific rules applicable beyond and not between the territories of the nations-States. The idea of legal pluralism nourishes the identity ...

The study aims to address an issue that is specifi cally related to the Romanian private international law, being borderline regulated by EU law regarding de jure recognition of judgements passed in another member state, and also the issue of acknowledging by means of a judicial procedure the inexistence of a case for the refusal to recognise such a judgement. To this end, the study offers possible remedies for the Romanian national judge to ...

The popularity of the factoring means that the atypical contract can no longer be called just a marginal financial service, but a significant element of the short-term financing instruments.It can be compared to several types of regulated contracts or can be considered as related legal institution: sale, lending, forfeting, but first of all, it’s separation from the debt assignment agreements is the most relevant.The factoring cont...

Whenever a prosecutor decides not to prosecute an offence on the reason that it has not been committed with the guilt specifi ed by law, the judicial body should carefully examine the author’s subjective position and the factual elements on which this position is construed. In this article I will discuss the merits of such a solution in a case of a crime of falsifying private documents, from a real-life caselaw, in which both the prosecutor a...

The choice of a certain style of legal writing is not only ad professionis one, but one that depends much on our fundamental view towards the relation between rules and freedom. Therefore, I believe that a legal writing in a cultural environment oriented predominantly towards efficiency of rules reveals a certain lack of interest for the individual freedom, a statism concealed as pragmatism. The positivism, which is a lack of philoso...

For the most part, added value comes from a new perspective, most often identifiable in other systems of law or even in other fi elds of study. However much we might wish otherwise, it is exceptionally rare that we can claim paternity over a question of law. Almost always, in its substance, the researched problem will have been formulated before, perhaps in other words, in other times, in a different place or with a different starting point. C...

„… I mostly rewrite. Unlike in high school or during law school, when it was a sacrilege to cut even a single word I had written, now I am merciless in eliminating pages, if they don’t fi t the message I wish to send. (I notice that the LLM students have the same problem: they do not wish to cut certain parts of their thesis if I suggest them to do so). I often replace words, phrases, paragraphs, pages.”

The title of your topic may or not generate curiosity to read a text. There is an American joke saying that „Before writing a book, sell it!”. The same thing happens when you write a text. In order to get the attention of the reader you need to offer her or him an inciting topic, able to make her or him hope that will obtain useful information. ...

When I write, I always want to imprint, especially in course materials, monographs and treatises, the “ghost of the author”, that sondergut, as the Germans call it, that is the part of the book that belongs to the author beyond a doubt, original without discussion, not inspired from intellectual readings or intersections with other authors. ...

Writing can be like running. You must practice every day if you want to run a marathon; if you want to write well, you must read enormously. When you are writing, you should always consider the reader. If writing is like running, remember to run along with your reader!