The Court Portal is administered by the Romanian Ministry of Justice. It provides access to Romanian courts' websites, contact details and other information, including hearing lists and selected decisions. All available decisions can be accessed using the separate Jurisprudenţă search facility. Courts can be identified using a judicial map, a list of courts organised by type, or an address search. Guide to using the courts are provided. The site is in Romanian only.
The Legislative Portal is a public database of Romanian legislation from 1989 onwards, together with selected earlier legislation, searchable by date, number and type of instrument. The Portal also provides the Civil Code, Civil Procedure Code, Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure. The interface and content are in Romanian only. The site is administered by the Romanian Ministry of Justice and was developed as part of the EU's N-Lex initiative (see: n-lex.europa.eu).
Website of the Romanian Ministry of Justice, the government department with responsibility for the administration of justice and the judiciary. Background and organisational information on the Ministry of Justice is given, along with relevant legislation and caselaw. There are guides and manuals on judicial cooperation between Romania and the EU and links are given to full-text versions of the various legal codes, including the Civil Code, Criminal Code and Insolvency Code.
Website of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania (Camera Deputa ilor) which is the lower house of the Romanian parliament. There is an introduction to how the Chamber of Deputies works with information on the role of the various committees and groups, the Speaker and members and other parliamentary activities. There is a full text copy of the Romanian Constitution. These parts of the site can be viewed in Romanian, English and French. Other sections of the site including parliamentary debates, bill tracking and links to legislation can be viewed in Romanian only.
Website of the Centre for Legal Resources (CRL) in Romania. The CRL is a non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1998 by the Open Society Foundation and concerned with the defence of human rights and the rule of law. The CRL operates programmes in the following areas: anti-discrimination; public integrity; advocate for dignity and strategic litigation. Programmes are delivered through project work and the site gives details of these along with information on the legal cases the CRL is involved with, monitoring reports and news.
The official website of the Romanian government provides biographies of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers and information on how the government is organised. The site explains the legislative process in Romania and includes information on the government’s programme and key policies for 2013 to 2016. News and events information is also provided.The site can be viewed in Romanian, French and English.
Website of the Uniunea Nationala a Barourilor din Romania (UNBR) which is the umbrella body representing bar associations in Romania. The site has information on the organisation of the UNBR including details of committees and full text laws relating to the legal profession in Romania. There are also links to individual state bar associations. The site can be viewed in Romanian only.
Website of the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice providing background on the Court including its organisation and jurisdictional functions. There are summaries of decisions, news items and articles along with links to the websites of other official Romanian bodies. The site is presented in Romanian with an overview in English.
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 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.
