Academic Staff
Assistant Professor Dr. Adina Nora BUCIUMAN
Academic Involvement
- Civil Law. Property Rights
- Civil Law. General Theory of Obligations
- Transport Law
- Civil Liability in the Era of New Technologies
- Protection of Incapable Persons
Education and Professional Training
- Ph.D. in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (2013, Summa Cum Laude): Natural Obligations (supervisor: Liviu Pop)
- International Faculty of Comparative Law, 1st cycle, Strasbourg, France, April 2001; 2nd cycle, Namur, Belgium, July 2001
- Master’s in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (2001, European Business Law)
- LL.B. in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (2000)
Publications
I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
- A. Buciuman, Civil Regulation of Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Romania, chapter in J. Hartmann, B. I. Scott, St. Truxal, A. Bertolini, A. Masutti, and Partner, RP Legalitax (eds.), Civil Regulation of Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, pp. 241-260;
- A. Buciuman, Uzucapiunea, Servituțile și Publicitatea imobiliară, in M. Harosa (coord.), Drepturile reale. Fișe de drept civil, Editura Universul Juridic, Bucharest, 2025;
- A. Buciuman, La compensation – justification de non-exécution, in A. R. Trandafir, M. D. Bob (coords.), Inexécution et justifications. Le pouvoir actuel d’expression du droit continental, Universul Juridic, Bucharest, 2019.
II. Articles
- A. Buciuman, Knock-for-knock clauses in operational contracts for offshore oil and gas extraction, Revista Română de Drept Privat, no. 1/2025;
- A. Buciuman, From legal easements to limits in property exercise … and back (a look at legal obligations of neighborhood), Revista Română de Drept Privat, no. 2/2024, pp. 21-54;
- A. Buciuman, The legal limit of sightline windows. Distinction between sightline windows and light windows. Relevance of building permits. Party wall on the rear boundary. Usucapion of positive sight easements. Works partially executed on the neighbor’s land. Neighborhood inconvenience versus violation of property rights. Expropriation in private interest. Accession, Revista Română de Drept și Jurisprudență, no. 2/2024, pp. 72-85;
- A. Buciuman, The quality of unilateral intent. Vices of consent in unilateral civil acts, Revista Română de Drept Privat, no. 4/2022, pp. 33-54; A. Buciuman, The transport contract… civilized?, Revista Română de Drept Privat, no. 3-4/2021, pp. 670-690;
- A. Buciuman, Liability limitation clauses, Revista Română de Drept Privat, no. 1/2021, pp. 113-143; A. Buciuman, Legal transplantation in Romanian civil law. The case of the real estate publicity system through land registers, Romanian Journal of Comparative Law, 2/2020, pp. 277-299;
- O. Podaru, A. Buciuman, On the loss of a chance in administrative litigation, Revista Română de Drept Privat, no. 3/2020, pp. 292-309; A. Buciuman, Romanian property and its French model, an untimely evolution, Analele Universității București, no. 1/2020.
Recent Conferences
- Liability for cybersecurity breaches in airport law; Airport obligations towards persons with disabilities; Impact of airport expansion on liability for increased noise levels; Allocation of responsibility between airline, airport, control tower, and handling company, seminar National and International Legislation in the Airport Sector, Faculty of Law, UBB Cluj-Napoca, Romanian Airports Association, 3-4 September 2025;
- Civil liability for artificial intelligence: legal adaptation or innovation?, Business Law, Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ed. 3), DaTIA Research Center, Alba-Iulia, 26-27 June 2025;
- Responsabilité civile et intelligence artificielle, Henri Capitant International Days, Korean Days, Seoul, South Korea, 16-18 June 2025;
- Exercising property in co-ownership. Between archaism and the ambition of modern energy projects, Biennial Conference, 15th Edition, Faculty of Law, West University of Timișoara, 8 November 2024;
- Sesie in the system of medieval forms of land ownership in the local area. Its regime in communist expropriations and post-revolutionary restitutions, conference Ownership in the History of Romanian Law. Continuity and Change in Socio-Legal Practices and Discursive Forms of Property, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, 18-19 October 2024;
- Plurality of models in the reform of the law of obligations in Romania, at the Second Regional Days of the Henri Capitant Association. Recent Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (Bucharest, 14-15 October 2024);
- Land registry at the confluence of models – a history of collision of legal cultures, International Roundtable Codifications and Codes, Henri Capitant Association of Friends of French Legal Culture, Bulgaria Group, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria, 23 May 2024;
- Special rights of passengers in case of flight cancellation, delay, or denied boarding in light of CJEU case law and Civil liability for accidents caused by autonomous drones and other autonomous driving systems, seminar National and International Legislation in the Airport Sector, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romanian Airports Association, 4-5 September 2024;
- Actions to defend the legal limits of property in neighborhood relations – substantive and procedural law aspects, conference Civil Procedure from Theory to Practice and Back, Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, INPPA Cluj Bar, 4 July 2024;
- Knock-for-knock clauses in operational contracts for offshore oil and gas exploitation – Economic analysis of the contract, Faculty of Law, UVT Timișoara, Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, 14-15 June 2024.
Research Projects
- Risk-aware Automated Port Inspection Drone(s) – RAPID Project, Grant agreement ID: 861211, DOI 10.3030/861211 (2020-2023); Funded under Societal Challenges – Smart, Green and Integrated Transport, coordinated by University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom;
- Incoherence of public authorities’ activities in valorizing state and local government properties; CNCSIS-UEFISCSU Grant, project no. PNII – IDEI 921/2009, code 2432/2008.
Teaching Mobilities and Research Fellowships
- Erasmus Teaching Mobility: Kaunas University Faculty of Law, Lithuania (2023)
Affiliations
- Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française (general secretary of the Romanian group)
Contests and Prizes
- Excellence Award, teaching staff category, awarded by the Student Council of Babeș-Bolyai University (2022)