Curriculum Vitae

Judge, Bucharest Court of Appeals (since April 2009); EU Law Trainer, The National Institute of Magistracy, Bucharest (since 2006); Associate Researcher of the Institute for Legal Research of the Romanian Academy – Centre for European Legal Studies(since 2010); Founding member and Co-President of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Association (since 2007); Director of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Review (since 2009); Vice-President of GEMME – European Group of Magistrates for Mediation (May 2010-May 2012; May 2024-May 2026); Founding member (2009) and Vice-President of the International Conference for Mediation and Justice (2012-2016); Member of the Association of European Magistrates for Human Rights (since 2011); Member of the Franco-Romanian Lawyers Association (since 2009); Member of the Association of
Magistrates of the European Union (since 2007).

PhD in Law (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law) – The Dialogue between
Constitutional Courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (2018). I
graduated the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest in 1998 and the National Institute of Magistracy in 2003, the second from my series of graduates. Postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest (2013) and the Academy of Economic Sciences in Bucharest, Faculty of Administration and Public Management(2015).

Author of numerous books and articles (more then 200) in the field of law, published in Romania, France, United States, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Lebanon, Columbia, India, Indonesia, Armenia and Argentina, among which:

Courses of Specialization at the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxemburg (April-June 2005), CEELI Institute Prague (Building Judiciary Integrity – October-November 2007), Tribunal Superior de Justicia Madrid, Spain (September 2010), Consejo General del Poder Judicial Madrid and European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) – Espacio Judicial Europeo Social (December 2010 – October 2011). I have participated in hundreds of scientific conferences organized in Romania or other countries, as a lecturer or participant (among others, in Paris, Luxembourg, Rome, Nice,
Lübeck, Budapest, Palermo, Ankara, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Trier, Sofia, Aix-en-Provence, Fontevrault, Wienn, St. Vincent de Mercuze, La Rochelle, Chisinau, The Hague, Krakow, Katowice, Ljubljana). Romania’s International Rapporteur for the XIX International Congress of Comparative Law (Vienna, 2014); U.S. Department of State, IVLP Project “Rule of Law and the U.S. Judicial System” (Washington, Manchester, East Lansing, Santa Fe, 2022).