We are pleased to invite you to participate in "Conference of New Legal Ideas", event of the Annals of the West University of Timișoara Magazine – Law Series, organized by Faculty of Law of the West University of Timișoara, Friday, November 14, 2025, in the Aula Magna of West University of Timisoara, (4 Vasile Parvan Blvd.).

The conference is a platform for proposing and testing innovative legal ideas, through a dialogue that encourages critical analysis and constructive debate. The conference is held in a format that pits each speaker against a respondent who provides a "welcome comment" to the ideas advanced by the speaker.

The texts of the interventions and responses are to be published in a special issue of the Annals of the West University of Timișoara – Law Series, a publication co-edited by the Universul Juridic Publishing House and Western University Publishing House and indexed in the international databases ERIH Plus, HeinOnline, EBSCOhost and CEEOL. The media partner of the conference is Juridice.ro.

During the conference, papers will be presented and new legal ideas from prestigious invited researchers will be debated, according to the program structured in the two sessions.

After the opening by Prof. Dr. Lucian Bercea, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the West University of Timișoara and Prof. Dr. Claudia Roșu, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Annals of the West University of Timișoara – Law Series, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andreea Verteș-Olteanu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law, will moderate the following interventions from Session I of the conference:

• Prof. Dr. Ion Gâlea, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, judge, General Court of the European Union – "Notorious facts before the Union courts", together with co-speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sorina Doroga, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “Autonomous concepts and presumptions in the practice of national courts";
• Associate Professor Dr. Carmen-Gina Achimescu, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law – "Positive discrimination – European consensus or evolutionary interpretation of the law?", together with co-speaker: Associate Professor Dr. Lucian Bojin, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – "Reflections on the justifications of positive discrimination";
• Associate Professor Dr. Gina Orga-Dumitriu, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, "Simion Bărnuțiu" Faculty of Law – "European Union rules on state aid vs. final arbitration awards: dilemmas and solutions", together with co-speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergiu Popovici, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “Interferences between commercial arbitration and the European legal order";

Afterwards, lect. dr. Dan-Adrian Cărămidariu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law, will moderate the following interventions, also from Session I of the conference:

• Lecturer Dr. Ioana Curt, "Babeș-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law – "The reward or the right of prisoners to say goodbye to their loved ones”, together with co-speaker: Associate Professor Dr. Voicu Pușcașu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “The reward or the right of prisoners to say goodbye to their loved ones. Gaps, inconsistencies and normative and jurisprudential inconsistencies".
• Lecturer Dr. Oana Bugnar-Coldea, "Babeș-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law – "The crime of tax evasion. A plea for "impunity", together with co-speaker: associate professor dr. Adrian Fanu-Moca, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “Tax evasion crimes. A plea for (non)punishment";
• Associate Professor Dr. Flaviu Ciopec, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “A curious legal idea: administrative criminal law”, together with co-speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cristian Clipa, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – "An original legal idea: sanctioning administrative law";
• Judge Dr. Raluca Mihaela Buculea, Timiș Court, Civil Section – "The pre-trial chamber filter in criminal proceedings – refurbishment or replacement", together with co-speaker: Judge Dr. Matei-Ciprian Graur, Timiș Court, Criminal Section, associate professor, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “The filter of the preliminary chamber in the criminal trial – reconditioning or replacement – ​​instead of answers, more questions”.

In the next part, Associate Professor Dr. Lavinia Tec, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law, will moderate the following interventions from Session II of the conference:

• Lecturer Dr. Andrea Anamaria Chiș, "Babeș-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law – "Court costs at the intersection of civil and criminal proceedings. 1. Private law disputes – civil procedure is common law and establishes the rule and criteria”, together with co-speaker: lect. dr. Diana Ionescu, “Babeș Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law, ”2. Public law disputes – are there special rules/criteria in criminal and administrative litigation cases?";
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Roșu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “Who reaches the finish line first: the material incompetence exception or the non-stamping exception?” – together with co-speaker: associate professor dr. Corina Petică Roman, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, “Simion Bărnuțiu” Faculty of Law – “Priority resolution of the exception of material incompetence in the competition with the exception of non-stamping";
• Assistant Professor Dr. Cătălin Lungănașu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “Intervention of other creditors in the enforcement procedure – some practical issues”, together with co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Evelina Oprina, Director, “Acad. Andrei Rădulescu” Institute of Legal Research of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest – “Intervention in forced execution: between systematization and typicality";
• Associate Professor Dr. Florina Popa, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “When (better) ideas come to us "along the way", and the limits of the devolutive effect of the appeal confuse us. Or not?”, together with co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Daniel Ghiță, University of Craiova, Faculty of Law – “The ex novo invocation of substantive defenses on appeal. A possible violation of the limits of the devolutive effect of the appeal. Or not….(?)".

Afterwards, Associate Professor Dr. Daniela Moțiu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law will moderate the following interventions, also from Session II of the conference:

• Associate Professor Dr. Florin I. Mangu, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “How unpredictable is chance?”, together with co-speaker: asst. univ. dr. Maximilian Andrei Druță, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “Controversies regarding the standard of predictability of fortuitous event. (Un)known are the ways of destiny”;
• Associate Professor Dr. Flaminia Stârc-Meclejan, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “The long journey from night to day: can future generations have rights?”, together with co-speaker: Associate Professor Dr. Violeta Stratan, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “"Flying over a nest of... rights for future generations";
• Lecturer Dr. Sergiu Golub, "Babeș-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law – "From “sterile” fiduciary to “useful” fiduciary. The insolvency practitioner and the fiduciary bailiff”, together with co-speaker: associate professor Dr. Alin Speriusi-Vlad, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law – “The transparent box of private law: trust and the fluidity of transactions. Why elementary questions are the best for bringing order to the civil circuit".

We are waiting for you!