Tag: Elena Simina Tănăsescu

Late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, id est “notorious RBG” for her fans, wrote in an opinion for The New York Times in the summer of 2016: “When a judge is of the firm view that the majority got it wrong she is free to say so in dissent.” In its obituary The Economist of September 2020 granted her the moniker “diva dissenter”. She was reputed to clearly express her views, even when these were quite different from those of the majority…. Citește mai multOn separate opinions and their impact on constitutional courts

2007 constituie un reper important în istoria recentă a Bulgariei şi României. Cetățeanul şi juristul care sunt conștientizează pe deplin impactul avut de acest eveniment inclusiv asupra vieții sale de zi cu zi. Această contribuţie ar fi putut aborda multe tematici din multe perspective. Am ales să prezint pe scurt o evoluție legislativă şi jurisprudențială produsă în acești 10 ani în România, ce ilustrează modul conversațional şi entuziast în care s-a dezvoltat interacțiunea dintre autoritățile statului român şi instituțiile europene… Citește mai multAniversarea a 10 ani de la aderarea României la Uniunea Europeană

Teaching constitutional law in the multilaterally developed socialist Romania could be done solely according to the only admitted methodological approach, namely “dialectical materialism”. Since the state and its legal system were nothing more than instruments in the hands of society’s ruling class, the branch of law which concerned precisely the power of this state appeared as a condensation of this vision. Thus, legal interpretation was synonym of method and the objectivity of the analysis was transfigured into an empty and… Citește mai multEpistemology of constitutional law