Regardless of any particular historical timeframe, the usage of legal arguments has represented an efficient means of shaping a national consciousness and of tuning to the European trends within the Transylvanian School. The representatives of this current have succeeded in imposing themselves...

Ladislau Vajda (1780 - 1834), is the descendent of a family that came from the Old Kingdom in Transylvania. He graduated Philosophy and Law at Cluj, and worked there as a public servant. Beginning with 1817 he was a Professor of Criminal Law at Cluj. His writings are considered a sequel of the...

In this paper the authors have tried to capture some of the main ideas of the work of one of the most appreciated Transylvanian jurists – Vaida Ladislau – mainly those ideas that have correspondent in actuality. Thus, Ladislau Vaida’s ideas and theories about the nation, its foundation,...

The role of political parties is important in the functioning of public authorities and at a first glance it is positioned above the citizens will expressed through voting. This paper describes such an interference of politics in the functioning of public authorities, in this case the Local...

Romania's EU membership implies for the national authorities the obligation to find means and methods for modernizing the state. This obligation implies, mainly, the harmonization of national legislation with the terms and conditions provided by international treaties, in order to realize public...

The definition and enlargement of the concept of nation are ideas that can be found in the work of Vaida Ladislau. The evolution of the concept is realized in stages, from the feudal concept of “nation” as the whole of the privileged ones, gifted with the right to take part in the governance...

If we can speak of state’s evolution reflected also from culture’s perspective, we certainly can talk about law’s evolution reflected in law books. The main issue of each evolution is represented by the sender, the one that makes evolution known and represents the link between...

The paper approaches the capacity of legal entities to conclude treaties. Besides well known international actors i.e. states, this paper deals with the capacity to conclude treaties of some rather controversial entities.

The work titled “Short theoretical and practical considerations with substance in the system of private international law” contains relative opinions about the field of contractual obligations, which tie the parts of judicial relationships that has foreign element. There are analyzed on the...