Every idea, every article is an experience, an exploration; you start without confidence or perhaps not much interest, as in every beginning, and once you realise that you are able to say something relevant, your written product takes shape; there are those moments, maybe minutes, which seem like small cracks or nuances in relation to which you might have a small contribution.

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...

When you manage to get closer different fields, the outcome is exponentially more valuable that bigot loyalty to a single style. Keywords: judge, judicial decision, case-law, review.

I read legal writings that are works of art, if you allow such a comparison. Buttoo few people read them if they do not solve a practical problem. Those whoapply the criteria I mentioned, and probably some other, they write, probably, for eternity. But I believe nothing is eternal (…) It is true thay there are long lasting principles and institutions that need to be know because we cannot build without foundation. But these n...

I write not only about law but in writing about law I also write about myself (a self who knows that in writing about law she also writes about herself). As such, my text will almost always be doubly marked by identity. Keywords:

What is the image of an ideal article? I wrote here about article and not books because the article is like a short story. The precision and the consistency, the intelligence and the exuberance can be better seen in articles than in books. (…) The title must be so good that you make it into the searches in the data basis and search engines. It must be sophisticated also. How can you make it simple and sophisticated? By knowin...