Early manifestations of judicial review of constitutionality should be sought in the British constitutional system, although it is true that it needed the intervention of the Supreme Court of the Union States of America (1803) to build a system of judicial review in what concerns the...

The parliamentary procedure of the censure motion has as a generator the legal document itself, known as such, which produces political effects (the vote of no-confidence leads to the demission of the Government) and also legal consequences (to the extent that a normative administrative act is...

In order to analyze the decisions of the Constitutional Court regarding constitutional legal disputes, two aspects need to be clarified: 1. what is meant by constitutional legal conflict and 2. who are the authorities between whom such conflicts can arise. In this article, the authors present a...

The subject at hand has attracted our attention in light of the extended scientific interest for Limited Liability Companies, as well as for the its novelty as this subject is not covered theoretically neither in national professional literature nor in the one from abroad. The studies on this...

While the penal codes includes certain offences that one may regard as falling under the species of „crimen natural” (e.g. homicide or theft), human trafficking is conceivable as crime only in the framework of the Modern social order. In the same time, the criminalization itself, as it...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on scholarly communication and its current trajectories by examining academics’ perception of Open Access, while also providing a reference case for studying social norm change. In this respect, the issue of publication choice and the role of Open Access...

This paper examines the effect of product Patent Act and parallel trade on the availability of an essential drug in the developing countries. Price discrimination by a Multinational Corporation (MNC) alleviates the problem of non-availability of the drug in a developing country compared to...

The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the emerging, yet largely undefined, principle of openness in EU law. After addressing the semantic confusion existing between openness and transparency, it attempts – through a textual and systemic interpretation of their respective legal...

The sui generis database right was added to copyright protection of databases in the Russian legislation only in 2008. In December 2010, new draft amendments to the RF Civil Code were published, substantially developing this regulation. This article examines the position of the Russian...

The emergence of so-called “free” or “open source” software and the growth of its economic importance in various industries makes questions regarding the legal status of free/open source licenses especially important. In December 2010 new draft amendments to the Russia’s Civil Code...