The article examines the complex and strained relations between politics, the State and the Constitution, both by means of the famous debate over democracy and constitutionalism, and by means of the paradoxes of the legal formalism associated with the constitutional law, the political law par...

Starting from the description of how the fundamental law of Romania had been revised in 2003, so that its texts be in accordance with the fundamental principles that govern the European legislation, the author promotes several critical ideas, regarding the manner in which the revision of the...

In the contemporary world, the distinction between the state of peace and the state of war has been progressively blurred, the debate over national security has included new threats and new responses, and a large share of the military activities of constitutional democracies consists of...

In Romania, issues such as the civil procedure code or the constitutionality of a government request for a vote of confidence have generated fruitful debates on the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. In this respect, the author argues that its decisions can reflect an indirect dialogue...

Since March 1, 2010, administrative and judiciary judges are essential actors of the new process of a posteriori constitutional review. The ordinary judge is in the heart of a device based on a filtering system towards the Constitutional Council, which preserves the monopoly on the...

The right to life is an inherent right of every human being and it is a prerequisite for ensuring all other rights throughout the architecture of protecting the human rights. The defence of human life by any means, including through criminal law, is one of the main duties of any state....

The right to private and family life is one of the fundamental human rights enshrined in Article 8 of European Convention on Human Rights, generically called „right to respect privacy and family life”, protecting a wide range of interests of personal nature. The essential foundation of these...

In the contemporary society, ethical issues raise more and more controversial debates. This has also emerged regarding the concept of euthanasia, given that it involves the decision of the patient who is facing the last phase of his life. Since this issue raises more and more debates, we...

Human dignity is currently defined as the grounding of human rights. In order to understand this notion, it is possible to conceive it as a consequence of a broader philosophical phenomenon: the construction of modern individualism. Thus, this article aims to understand the connections between...

The general concept of the article is based on the theoretical and methological distinction between different types of social problems. From a plurality of disfunctional aspects that are affecting Romanian society, we focused in our analysis on societal insecurities, i.e. those class of social...