Academic Staff
Assistant Professor Dr. Mihai DAVID
Academic Involvement
- Civil Law. Special Contracts
- Civil Law. Real Rights (2011–2018)
- Real Estate Publicity
- Civil Law. Obligations (seminars)
Education and Professional Training
- Doctor of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law (2014, Summa Cum Laude) – Appearance in Private Law, Supervisor: Ion Deleanu
- Master’s Degree in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law (2005, Institutions of Private Law)
- Law Degree, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law (2004)
Publications
I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
- David, Despre falsa problemă a neretroactivității rezilierii, în Gh. Buta, I.V. Varga, M. Voicu (coord.), In memoriam Ion Deleanu. Magistru al metaforei și al ficțiunilor juridice în știința dreptului românesc, Ed. Universul Juridic, București, 2024, p. 260-279
- M. David, Promisiunea de vânzare imobiliară și actul ulterior de dispoziție încheiat cu nesocotirea acesteia, în D.A. Popescu, S. Golub (coord.), O familie pentru Europa, o Europa a familiilor? Studia Emese Florian Dedicata, Ed. Hamangiu, București, 2022, p. 144-202
- M. David, Despre mirajul opozabilității prin cunoaștere – sau despre teoria aparenței ca martor inocent al opozabilității de plin drept, în A. Almășan, I. Vârsta, C.E. Zamșa (coord.), In honorem Flavius Antoniu Baias. Aparența în dreptul privat, tomul II, Ed. Hamangiu, București, 2021, p. 107-132
- M. David, Property, în A. Levasseur, J. Randall Trahan, D. Gruning (coord.), The Legal System of Romania, Ed. Carolina Academic Press, Durham (North Carolina), 2020, p. 55-62
- M. David, Remèdes contre une inexécution inexistante. Ou du risque d’ignorer, au nom de l’opposabilité, les limitations imposées par l’effet relatif du contrat – étude de droit comparé, în A.-R. Trandafir, M.D. Bob (coord.), Inexécution et justifications. Le pouvoir d’expression du droit continental, Ed. Universul Juridic, București, 2019, p. 18-58
- M. David, Despre obligația de a da și obligația de a contracta în dreptul civil român actual – antecontracte, subcontractare și fragmentarea contractelor translative de proprietate, în D.A. Popescu (coord.), In honorem Dan Chirică, Ed. Hamangiu, București, 2018, p. 202-264
- M. David, Les biens, în Droit de la Roumanie, Ed. LGDJ, Paris, 2018, p. 63-69
- M. David, Eseu asupra cunoașterii în dreptul civil – Aparență. Opozabilitate. Formalism. Publicitate, Ed. Universul Juridic, București, 2017
- M. David, Quelques réflexions sur des institutions proches de la responsabilité contractuelle dans le nouveau Code civil roumain, în S. O. Özdemir (coord.), Journées Turco – Roumaines. Travaux de l’Association Henri Capitant, Ed. Institutul de Droit Comparé, Istanbul, 2016, p. 95-102
II. Articles
- David, Unacknowledged Toleration of Overbooking by Airlines as an Ad-hoc Application of the Economic Analysis of the Contract, in Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 1/2025
- M. David, Priority Order in the Enforcement of Personal Rights, in Contrast with the Order of Effect Production Between Competing Contracts: The Particular Case of Sale with Retention of Title, in Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 2/2024, pp. 74-109
- M. David, Issues of Restitution in Civil Contracts – or How Termination Retroacts, in Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 2/2023, pp. 270-318
- I. David, M. David, Fraud Against Creditors and Faulty Non-Performance as Grounds for Contract Ineffectiveness, in Romanian Journal of Jurisprudence, no. 3/2023, pp. 279-291
- Mihai David, Duration of Effectiveness and Its Relevance in Contract Qualification – Particularities of the Supply Contract, in Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 1/2021, pp. 329-360
- M. David, The Perspective of Non-Performance as a Relevant Factor in the Decision to Conclude a Contract – or on Managing Risks Associated with Non-Performance, in Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 3/2019, pp. 110-153
Recent Conferences
- On the allure of the economic analysis of the contract and the omnipresence of damages, paper presented at the National Conference on Commercial Law, themed Economic Analysis of the Contract, organized by the Faculty of Law of the West University of Timișoara, through the Center for Business Law Timișoara, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law of Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, through the Centre for Business Law and Information Technology (Timișoara – 14.06.2024).
- On the retroactive effect of contract termination, paper presented at the national conference In honorem Valeriu Stoica, organized by the Romanian Journal of Jurisprudence (Bucharest – 22.11.2023)
- Registration in the land register of personal rights – or on salvation through priority – the particular case of the promise of sale of real estate in Romanian civil law, paper presented at the international conference themed: “Real Rights: European Traditions and Modernization Challenges,” organized by the Faculty of Law of the State University of Moldova and the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest (Chișinău, 12–13.10.2023)
Other professional and research activities
- National Reporter – Association Henri Capitant, Journées internationales malgaches – Land and Subsoil Ownership (2024)
- Expert Evaluator – Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission (2023)
- Expert in Civil Law, within the Project “Justice 2020: Professionalism and Integrity,” SIPOCA code 453, MySMIS2014+ code 118978, funded under the Administrative Capacity Operational Program (PO CA) 2014-2020, implemented by the National Institute of Magistracy (2019–2023)
- Representative of Romania – 34th session of Working Group VI: Security Interests – UNCITRAL – Vienna, Austria (17.12.2018 – 21.12.2018)
- Representative of Romania – 33rd session of Working Group VI: Security Interests – UNCITRAL – New York, USA (30.04.2018 – 04.05.2018)
- Expert in Civil Law – delivering lectures within the project “Assistance for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in the Training of Judges and Prosecutors for the Application of the New Codes” implemented by the Superior Council of Magistracy and the National Institute of Magistracy under the Swiss Financial Mechanism (25.09.2017 – 17.10.2017)
- Representative of Romania – 31st session of Working Group VI: Security Interests – UNCITRAL – New York, USA (13.02.2017 – 17.02.2017)
- Expert on behalf of Romania – United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – Working Group VI: Security Interests [Grupul de lucru VI – Garanții reale] (2016 – 2018)
- Scientific Reviewer – Annals of the University of Bucharest – Law Series (since 2014)
Teaching Mobilities and Research Fellowships
- Fulbright Research Fellowship, within the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, awarded by the Fulbright Association and the Romanian–U.S. Fulbright Commission (August, September, October, November 2022). Research project: Remedies for Breach of Contract in U.S. Common Law and European Civil Law: The Same Phrase, but a Different Meaning? – True Cultural Boundary or a Mere Miscommunication.
- Research Fellowship for Faculty and Researchers awarded by DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (July, August, September 2018). Research project: Remedies for Non-Performance of Contracts: Analysis of Relevant European Private Law Systems and Their Possible Influence on the New Romanian Civil Code.
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship awarded by Max Planck – Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – Hamburg (May, June 2015). Research project: Formation and Effects of Contracts: Disparities and Convergences among Major European Legal Systems. Romanian Legislation and the Risk of Implementation Without Adequate Assimilation of Different Legal Solutions.
- Research Internship – Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, Faculty of Law (June 2012)
- Doctoral Research Fellowship awarded by Max Planck – Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – Hamburg (May, June, July 2010). Research project: Knowledge and Legal Acts: What Is Relevant from the Perspective of Third Parties – Legal Reality, Presumed Knowledge, or Actual Knowledge? Recent Trends in Major European Legal Systems and Their Possible Influence on the Draft Romanian Civil Code.
- Research Internship: “The Austrian Real Estate Registration System” – Faculty of Law, University of Vienna (June 2006)
Affiliations
- Member of the Cluj Bar Association (since 2012)
- Member of the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française (since 2011)
Awards
- “Octavian Căpățână” Award (2019) granted by the Romanian Journal of Private Law in collaboration with the National Union of Insolvency Practitioners in Romania, for the most original and valuable study published in the journal during 2018, for the article “Land Registry Actions in Interference with Common Law Actions,” published in the Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 2/2018.