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    HomeFaculty TeamAcademic StaffDepartment of Private LawAssociate Professor Dr. Alina Elena OPREA

    Academic Staff

    Associate Professor Dr. Alina Elena OPREA

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    Academic Involvement

    • International Trade Law (in Romanian and in English)
    • Private International Law (in English)
    • Commercial Law II (in English)
    • Domestic and International Business Contracts

    Education and Professional Training

    • PhD in Law, Pantheon Assas Paris II University (2011, distinction: Très honorable avec félicitations): European Union Law and Police Laws (supervisor: Emeritus Professor Bernard AUDIT)
    • Master/D.E.A. in International Law, Pantheon-Assas University Paris II (2004), Private International Law and International Trade Law
    • Advanced Diploma in Comparative Law, International Faculty of Comparative Law, University of Strasbourg (2003 and 2006)
    • Law Degree, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2003)
    • Advanced Certificate in French Law, Pantheon-Assas University (2002)

    Publications

    I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
    1. A. Oprea, European Union Law and Police Laws, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 522 p.;
    2. A. Oprea, International Trade Law, Hamangiu, 2023, 730 p.;
    3. D.A. Popescu, E.A. Oprea, Private International Law, Hamangiu, 2023, 1300 p.;
    4. E. A. Oprea, “E-commerce and the Protection of Consumers in European Private International Law – Selected Issues from the ECJ’s Case Law”, chapter in (ed. coord.) C. Santaolalla Montoya, Consumer Protection in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities, European Commission Publishing, 2023, pp. 153-172;
    5. A. Oprea, The Law Applicable to Transaction Avoidance in Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings, Lazić V., Stuij S. (eds) Recasting the Insolvency Regulation. Short Studies in Private International Law. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 2020, pp. 75-107;
    6. A. Oprea, “Ch. 13. Romania: Interpretation and Effects of Optional Jurisdiction Agreements in International Disputes” in M. Keyes (Eds): Optional Choice of Court Agreements in Private International Law, Ius Comparatum – Global Studies in Comparative Law, Vol. 37, Springer, 2019.
    II. Articles
    1. EA Oprea, Tag-Along and Drag-Along Clauses – Conventional Limits on a Shareholder’s Right to Dispose of Shares in a Company, RRDP 2/2024, pp. 213-229;
    2. DA Popescu, EA Oprea, Legitimacy and Interest in the Private International Circuit: Observations on International Jurisdiction in Divorce and Parental Responsibility, RRDP, 4/2023, pp. 197-255;
    3. E.A. Oprea, Real Guarantees in Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings, SUBB Iurisprudentia no. 2/2023, pp. 13-44;
    4. A. Oprea, Electronically Signed Arbitral Awards, in In honorem Favius Antoniu Baias – Appearance in Law, Hamangiu, 2021, vol. 1, pp. 267-280;
    5. A. Oprea, The Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods and Contracts Relating to Software, RRDP, 2021, no. 1, pp. 511-531;
    6. A. Oprea, Observations on Mitigation of Loss in Contractual Matters, RRDP, 2/2020, pp. 226-245; A. Oprea, The Knock-Out Rule in Resolving Conflicts of Standard Clauses, Studia Iurisprudentia, 4/2020, pp. 787-821.

    Recent Conferences

    • Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la culture juridique française, International Korean Days, Seoul, 15-18 June 2025, Civil Liability and Artificial Intelligence; topic: Artificial Intelligence and Liability for Damage Caused by Defective Products
    • Association Henri Capitant Bulgaria, Plovdiv, Codification and Codes, 23 May 2024, Topic: Codification of Private International Law in Europe
    • UVT, Faculty of Law, UBB, Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Law National Conference on Commercial Law, Economic Analysis of the Contract, Timisoara, 14-15 June 2024, 14th edition, Topic: Clauses on the Allocation of Voting Rights and Economic Efficiency
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    Research Projects

    • Member of the project Specificity and Complementarity in European Private Law. Conflicts of Laws and Jurisdictions and European Integration (2009-2011, IDEI-PCE Grant, code 2442, director Dan A. POPESCU)
    • Member of the project: Evolution of the Concept of Family and Its Relevance for the Legal Succession Order – A Socio-Legal, Religious, and Philosophical Analysis, 2011-2013, IDEI-PCE Grant, code 174, director: Associate Professor Dr. Mircea Dan BOB
    • National Reporter (together with Prof. R. Catana and I. Sumandea) in the European project Study on the Law Applicable to Companies with the Aim of a Possible Harmonisation of Conflict of Laws Rules on the Matter, 2015-2016, LSE Enterprise, coordinated by M. Siems, C. Gerner-Beuerle, E. Schuster, F. Mucciarelli
    • Director of UBB-GTC Grant 31804 – Effectiveness of Jurisdiction Clauses in the European Area, UBB, 2016-2017
    • National Reporter in the project Cross-Border Proceedings in Family Law Matters before National Courts and the CJEU, dir. Prof. Vesna Lazic, 2016-2017
    • National Reporter for the 2018 Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, topic: Optional Choice of Court Agreements, coord. Prof. M. Keyes, Griffith Law School, Australia, 2018
    • Reporter – European Seminar organized by the Ministry of Justice – “Cooperation between EU Member States in Resolving Civil Cases Concerning the Illicit Removal or Retention of a Child,” 2018 (JUST/2015/JTRA/AG/EJTR/8681)
    • Project Coordinator (UBB partner), Legal Counseling Services for Victims of Abuses or Irregularities in Administration and Justice, MySMIS code: 111830 / project code: SIPOCA377, contract no.: 188/16.07.2018, 2018-2019
    • National Reporter in the project Updating Consumer and Marketing Law Content for the Consumer Law Section of the e-Justice Portal (JUST/2017/CONS/PR/CO02/0059), coordinated by Mainstrat, in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country, the University of Navarra, and ETC Europe, 2018-2022
    • National Reporter in the project Updating Consumer and Marketing Law Content for the Consumer Law Section of the e-Justice Portal EISMEA/2023/OP/0013 (2023-2025)

    Teaching Mobilities and Research Fellowships

    • 2004-2007 – Research Grant, awarded by Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 for the preparation of a doctoral thesis entitled “European Union Law and Mandatory International Laws”

    Affiliations

    • European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL)
    • Romanian Institute of Commercial Law

    Contests and Prizes

    • Annual Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, awarded by Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2016, 2024)
    • IL Georgescu Award of the Union of Jurists of Romania (2024), for the work A. Oprea, International Trade Law, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2023
    • Excellence Award of the Union of Jurists of Romania, 2023, for the work D.A. Popescu, E.A. Oprea, Private International Law, Hamangiu, 2023
    • Traian Ionascu Award of the Romanian Journal of Private Law for the work D.A. Popescu, E.A. Oprea, Private International Law, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2023
    • Coordinator of the teams of the Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca
    • Winner of the EnJOY THE EUROPEAN COURT of ARBITRATION competition (Bucharest, 2024, 2025)
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