Academic Staff
Professor Dr. Dan-Andrei POPESCU
Academic Involvement
- Private International Law
- European Private International Law
Education and Professional Training
- Doctor of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (1996): The Partnership Contract (supervisor: Ernest Lupan)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (1990)
Publications
I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
- A. Popescu, A. Oprea, Private International Law, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2023;
- D. A. Popescu, Flexibility and Formalism in Private International Law, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2023;
- D. A. Popescu, Private International Law: An Elementary Treatise, Lumina Lex Publishing, Bucharest, 1999;
- D. A. Popescu, Specificity and Complementarity in European Private Law: Conflicts of Laws and European Legal Integration, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2012;
- D. A. Popescu, The Partnership Contract, Lumina Lex Publishing, Bucharest, 1996; D. A. Popescu, Aspects of Formalism and Formal Procedures in Private International Law, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2015;
- D. A. Popescu, Guide to Private International Succession Law, Ministry of Justice, 2014;
- E. Lupan, D. A. Popescu, Civil Law: Natural Person, Lumina Lex Publishing, Bucharest, 1993;
- E. Lupan, D. A. Popescu, A. Marga, Civil Law: Legal Person, Lumina Lex Publishing, Bucharest, 1994;
- E. Lupan, D. A. Popescu, M. Răchită, Civil Law: General Theory, Lito UBB Publishing, Cluj-Napoca, 1991;
- D. A. Popescu, On the Mutability of the Matrimonial Regime: Interferences from the Perspective of Private International Law, in Person and Enterprise: Theoretical Aspects with Practical Implications and Applications, Solomon Publishing, Bucharest, 2025;
- D. A. Popescu, Culpa in Contrahendo: Perspective from Private International Law, in Progressive Formation of the Contract: Preliminary Acts and Contracts. Theoretical Aspects with Practical Implications and Applications, Solomon Publishing, Bucharest, 2024;
- D. A. Popescu, It’s Dark and Stormy Outside. Should We Dance? Again on the Form of Powers of Attorney Executed Abroad, in In Honorem Gabriel Boroi, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2025;
- D. A. Popescu, The Creation of Adam: Legal Significance, West University of Timișoara Publishing, Timișoara, 2024;
- D. A. Popescu, Reflections on the Application of the European Succession Regulation in Romania, in Festschrift Oliver Remien, Dunkler & Humblot Verlag, Berlin, 2023;
- D. A. Popescu, Uniform Succession and Forced Heirship – Critical Remarks on the Decisions of the French Cour de cassation of 27 September 2017, in Festschrift von Bar, C. H. Beck, Munich, 2022;
- D. A. Popescu, Again on the Forced Heirship Reserve: Perspective from Private International Law, In Honorem Dan Chirică, Hamangiu Publishing, Bucharest, 2022;
- D. A. Popescu, On the Impact of the Improbable or How a Case-Based Ethics Can Develop, in In Honorem Valeriu Stoica, Universul Juridic Publishing, Bucharest, 2018.
II. Articles
- D. A. Popescu, A. Oprea, Reflections on the International Jurisdiction of Romanian Courts in Matters of Child Protection, Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 4/2023;
- D. A. Popescu, Considerations on Punitive Damages: Perspective from Private International Law, Romanian Journal of Private Law, no. 4/2024;
- D. A. Popescu, Inheritance Pacts Viewed from the Perspective of Private International Law, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Iurisprudentia, no. 4/2020;
- D. A. Popescu, Mediation in Matters Concerning Parental Responsibility and International Child Abduction: Recognition and Enforcement of Agreements Concluded During Return Proceedings, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Iurisprudentia, no. 3/2019.
Recent Conferences
- Gh. Beleiu IV Conference: “Property and Contract. Theoretical Aspects with Practical Implications and Applications” – 22-23 May 2025;
- National Conference on Environmental Law: The New Forestry Code – UJ 2025;
- Conference: “The Role of Negotiation in Conflict Resolution,” Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, 2025;
- Conference: “The Dynamics of Civil Obligations,” Faculty of Law, Bucharest, 2025;
- “The Person and the Enterprise. Beleiu III Conference,” Faculty of Law, Bucharest (22 May 2023);
- Damages and Remedies. A Dance with Many Partners in the Civil Code (Bucharest, National Conference on Civil Law 2024).
Research Projects
- Specificity and Complementarity in European Private Law, PN II Grant, IDEI, code 2442, 36 months, 2009-2011 – project director;
- Research contract MJ no. 82507/76/2018, European Project, Cooperation between EU Member States for resolving civil cases regarding the illicit movement or retention of children, Justice Program 2015 of the European Commission;
- Expert in research contract MJ no. 34981/25/2014, Grant JUST/2011/JCIV/AG3417 from 2012, Ministry of Justice and European Commission;
- Expert in research contract MJ no. 53422/18/2014, Grant JUST/2011/JCIV/AG3417 from 2012, Ministry of Justice and European Commission;
- Expert in the University of Bordeaux Project, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Study on the Application of the Brussels IIa Regulation. ITAC: cross-border mobility and civil proceedings: couples and parenthood in the European judicial area (JUST/2014/JCOO/AG);
- International expert in the European Parliament Project: Comparative Study on Authentic Instruments – National Provisions of Private Law, Circulation, Mutual Recognition and Enforcement, Possible Legislative Initiative by the European Union (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Sweden), 2008, IPOL-JURI_ET(2008)408329.
Teaching Mobilities and Research Fellowships
- University of Trier, Germany (1993), University of Exeter, England (1998)
Affiliations
- Fellow, European Law Institute, Vienna,
- Member, European Association of Private International Law;
- Member of the Center for Natural Law and Normative Analysis, University of Bucharest;
- Vice President, Henri Capitant Association, Romania;
- Corresponding Member of the Academy of Legal Sciences.
Awards
- “Octavian Căpățână” Award from RRDP (2014);
- Excellence in Research Award from the Union of Jurists of Romania (2023);
- “Traian Ionașcu” Award from the Romanian Journal of Private Law (2024).