Rumania

Doing legal research in Romania

An online reference and research guide on Romanian law, prepared by Dana Neacsu a lawyer and member of the bar of the State of New York and a reference librarian at Columbia Law School. The guide is arranged in sections describing and linking to relevant sources on the internet. Sections include the Romanian legal system, Romanian primary and secondary legal sources, online sources of legal information, legal organisations such as law libraries, law schools and law firms and a full range of specific topics in Romanian law.

World Law: Romania

World Law Index and Search service covering Romania. Link collections include materials relating to the Courts, Government, Legislation, and Parliament with specific subject sections dealing with Elections, Intellectual Property, Privatisation and Secured Transactions. A stored search will automatically query all of World Law for items about Romania. A limited area search engine offers high focus searches of selected remote sites. Site help and on screen translation facilities are also available. The World Law service is run by WorldLII from the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

World Legal Information Institute Catalog : Eastern Europe

This website is part of the World Legal Information Institute's Catalog of websites. Under each country there are standard headings for courts and case law, government, legislation, lawyers etc. In addition there are more detailed subject headings (Banking and Finance law or intellectual property for example) which vary from country to country. It is also possible to search for terms across the whole Eastern European section. Suggestions for new links can be submitted by email. The site is in English, with Babel Fish Translation available.

Constitution of Romania

An online version of the 1991 Romanian Constitution (amended to 2003) made freely available in English by International Constitutional Law (ICL) at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The Constitution includes sections on fundamental rights and freedoms, the role of the President, the passing of legislation and the organisation and functions of Parliament, the Government, judicial authority, the Constitutional Court, local government, armed forces and the police. The Constitution can be viewed in HTML.

Constitutional Court of Romania

Official website of the Constitutional Court of Romania. The site has background information on the establishment of the Romanian Constitution and Constitutional Court. Details are provided covering the Court's function and composition (including profiles of its members), information on the work of the court and a statistical breakdown of its rulings and decisions. Selected decisions of the Court are available in full text PDF on a yearly basis from 1992 onwards to date. The site also has a copy of the Romanian Constitution and online versions of related legislation.

Romanian Legislative Council

Official website of the Romanian Legislative Council which was set up in its present form in 1993. The role of the Council is to advise the Government on bills, draft statutory orders, draft codes and other legislative proposals, to ensure legislation conforms to the provisions and principles of the Constitution and to keep an official record of the legislation. The website includes online (PDF) copies of the laws and regulations which set up and established the structure of the Council and provides information on its history and powers. The site can only be viewed in Romanian.

Oficiul de Stat pentru Inventii si Marci

Website provided by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks in Bucharest, a specialised government body with responsibility for the protection of industrial propety in Romania. It contains information on patents, trademarks, industrial design, topographies of integrated circuits and plants varieties. There is a searchable Romanian Patent Database and links to services and publications offered by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. Details of regional centres and a list of IP attorneys are available. The site is available in Romanian only.

LESIJ.JS

LESIJ.JS is an open-access online journal provided by Nicolae Titulescu University in Romania. It covers covers all areas of law, but focuses particularly on topics that cross traditional branches of the law and the relationship of law to other disciplines. Topics covered include criminal justice, socio-legal studies, criminology, European private law, internet law and intellectual property law. As well as the current issue, back issues are available back to 2006.

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