The Council of Europe was founded well before the European Union, as an independent organization, its main activity being the protection of human rights, with special emphasis on guaranteeing minimum social rights for every citizen of the Member States, including Romania, starting in 1993. 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....

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...

A majority of American states recognize the death penalty as a lawful and constitutional sentence for the most serious crimes committed by the most dangerous and blameworthy criminals. However, in recent years, numerous flaws in capital punishment systems have caused courts in the United States...

This article focuses on how human rights are putting their imprint on the civil and criminal law. Moreover the Constitution is a basis of legitimacy of all branches of law. After the analysis is the question of whether constitutional law is the basis of unifying the national law. We can not talk...

The analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights gives basis for concluding that the authorities of the states, in their activity of international cooperation in combating crime, are obliged to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Convention for...

In the determination of his civil rights and obligations or of any cryminal charge against him, everyone is intitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law. The fairness, equitable and publicity character of the trial...