Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM’) is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient’ LM, which accompanied the...

System of local self-governance in Russia has undertaken several stages of reforms. In this lecture we shall analyze several particularities of the organizational aspect of local self-governance, taking into consideration stages of reform, undertaken in Russia. And certain attention we shall pay...

At present, there are many international and European legal norms regarding the matter of women’s rights, endowed with compulsory juridical value for ratifying states. In this quality, Romanian state has specific legal obligations concerning the protection of women’s rights, from the...