The author discusses the close correlation between the regulation of competition and the regulation on the protection of the consumers’ interests, involving some difficulties in distinguishing between them. That is why there is the tendency that some regulations protect both the ensuring of competition and the consumers’ interests, this ambivalence emphasizing the importance that is given in the contemporary society to the consumption law, which justifies a whole series of derogations from the principle of freedom of trade. Discussing this issue involves an examination of both the regulation of the contractual obligations and the regulation of the commercial practices. The consumer who wants to purchase a product usually has a double handicap: knows too little the characteristics of the product that is being offered and, as such, is often in the position to sign a previously elaborated contract which he can not control or understand. So it was necessary the intervention of the legislator, imposing the obligation to inform every consumer, being prohibited to stipulate unfair terms. As far as the regulation of the commercial practices is concerned, the same conclusion is drawn, namely that a consumer is exposed to a double risk: that of being deceived about the nature or the characteristics of the goods which it acquires, as well as that of being incited, by fictitious or illusory promises, to buy or to resort to the supply of a service. Consequently, the legislator has stepped in by elaborating regulations both in relation to the illegal commercial practices and with regard to the commercial publicity. The author of this article presents all these aspects having in view the scale of the legal situations that can arise and the required solutions.

The judicial practice in the matter of representation, including in that of the Supreme Court, reveals difficulties in interpreting Article 84 (1) of the Civil Procedure Code. A poor interpretation thereof, by ignoring ratio legis, creates a gap for the illegal practice of the specialized legal professions. In the same context, it is necessary to distinguish between the plea of lack of evidence of the quality of representative and that of illegal representation, and the latter must be preceded by the plea on the nullity of the contract from which the judicial mandate arises.

The author analyzes the territorial jurisdiction of the court to settle the actions for annulment of the decisions of invalidation or for amendment of the settlement decisions issued by the National Commission for Real Estate Settlement pursuant to the Law No 165/2013, appreciating that it lies with the civil section of the Bucharest Tribunal, as the court in whose district it is located the headquarters of the entity issuing the contested act. The term „entity” within Article 35 (1) must be understood in relation to the provisions of Article 3 points 4 and 5 of the Law No 165/2013, which enumerates the entities involved in the restitution procedure in various stages thereof, as well as the document issued by these entities.

On 1 April 2016 there were celebrated 150 years since, by Decree of the Princely Lieutenancy, it had been approved the Regulation for establishing the Romanian Literary Society, with the special mission to determine the spelling, to elaborate the Romanian grammar and to start and develop the Romanian dictionary, thus representing „the act of birth” of the national academic institution. Transformed in 1867 into the Romanian Academic Society, it opened its area of concerns, along with literature and philology, to history and natural sciences, following that, by the Law of 1879, it would acquire legal personality and become „national institute” under the name of Romanian Academy. Over a century and a half of uninterrupted activity, the Academy was the major factor of enforcement of the Romanian spiritual unity, „the vital centre” of irradiation and promotion of the national science and culture. In this context, the law has been and still is at the same time foundation, form of culture, field of scientific knowledge, value of expression of the academic concerns, and the jurists, some of its most devoted promoters. Under the terms of transformation of the university into a setting almost exclusively for transmitting knowledge and skills of training of future professionals of law, the only forum for conducting the fundamental legal research and for the development of the science of law remains the Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy. In order to play such a role it must redefine its mission and re-establish its priorities, so as to provide the proper setting for the legal reflection and for the achievement of theoretical projects that should lead to the crystallization of the new Romanian doctrine of the law.

International agreements constitute a category of legal acts within the European Union (EU). They are concluded by the EU acting alone or jointly with Member States depending on the provisions of the founding Treaties. With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union (EU) acquired legal personality. It is therefore a subject of international law which is capable of negotiating and concluding international agreements on its own behalf. The external competences of the EU are defined in Article 216 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. The division of competences between the EU and Member States is also expressed at international level. The current division of competences between the EU and Member States is not set in stone. However, the reduction or extension of EU competences is a delicate matter which requires the consent of all Member States and necessitates a revision of the Treaties.