PUBLICISTICA JURIDICĂ ROMÂNEASCĂ: TRADIȚII, STAREA ACTUALĂ ȘI REVIRIMENTUL AȘTEPTAT

The 150th anniversary from the issue of „Dreptul” magazine, edited by Societatea Juridică
(1871), the first representative publication, with a „programme” in the matter, represents the occasion
to review the evolution of the juridical literature as vector of the science and culture of law in
Romania, to capture its current state and to prefigure the perspectives of development. The juridical
press has emerged and developed in our country as a tool for promoting knowledge of law, through
the dissemination of the case law, the affirmation of the doctrine and of the dialogue of ideas. After
an initial period marked by the spirit of imitation related to the massive legislative import that
characterized the establishment of the foundations of the Romanian juridical modernity after 1859,
the interwar juridical unification (judicial, constitutional-legislative, at the level of the regime of juridical
professions and of the juridical higher education) favoured the transition to its own literature in the
field and a national juridical culture with strong original and identity accents. Marked by a certain
eclipse and by a perspective „planned” between 1949–1989, it experienced a strong recovery after
1990 by resuming its issue in new editions, along with Dreptul, and of the other two landmarks genre:
Curierul Judiciar (founded in 1892) and Pandectele Române (since 1921) and the issue of new ones,
currently facing the low tide and the unexpected challenges of the accelerated digitalization and
neoliberal globalization.