Academic Staff
Professor Dr. Ovidiu Laurențiu PODARU
Academic Involvement
- Administrative Law
- Misdemeanor Law
- Urban Planning and Construction Law
- Business Law and Administrative Authorizations
Education and Professional Training
- Doctoral supervisor – Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law, Doctoral School Law, with the habilitation thesis Administrative Law. A Concept. A Vision, 2016
- Doctor of Law – Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law (2003), with the thesis Caducity of manifestations of will in Romanian public law (coordinator: Tudor Drăganu)
- Graduate – Faculty of Comparative Law, Cycle I, Strasbourg, 2000
- Law degree – “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Faculty of Law, July 1998
Publications
I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
- O. Podaru, Administrative Law. Vol. I. The Administrative Act. New References for a Different Theory. Volume I. Notion, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2022;
- O. Podaru, Administrative Law. Vol. I. The Administrative Act. New References for a Different Theory. Volume II. The Legal Regime, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2022;
- O. Podaru, The Law of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and Construction. Vol. II. Urban Planning Rules – Between Defiance and Respect, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2024;
- O. Podaru, Administrative Law. Vol. II. The Administrative Law of Goods, Ed. 4th revised and added, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2024;
- O. Podaru, Publicity of the building permit, in the volume In honorem Flavius Antoniu Baias. Appearance in law, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2021, Volume II, p. 510.
II. Articles
- O. Podaru, A. Buciuman, On the loss of a chance in administrative litigation, Romanian Journal of Private Law no. 3/2020;
- O. Podaru, A.C. Loghin, The defendant in administrative litigation: the romanticized history of a judicial tangle, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Iurisprudentia no. 3/2020, p. 5-54;
- O. Podaru, A.C. Loghin, Suspicious business, prosperous business. On the opportunity of derogatory urbanism, Romanian Journal of Private Law no. 2/2023.
Recent Conferences
- Art. 18 LCA: A Tough Nut of Administrative Litigation, at the National Conference on Administrative Litigation, Ed. 4, Bucharest, 8 December 2023
- Public Interest vs. Economic Interest in Administrative Contracts, at the 14th National Conference on Commercial Law, 14-15 June 2024, Timișoara
- Protection and Conservation of Habitats and Birds – Major Public Interest Objective and Legal Liability – Reaction to the Violation of the General Protection Regime of Natural Areas, at the Conference “European and Romanian Nature Protection Legislation” organized by the National Institute of Magistracy, 7-8 October 2024
- Public Interest vs. Private Property Rights: Some Reflections on Parasitic Constructions and “Making, Undoing, Remaking… Now That’s a Business!”, at the Biennial Conference in Timișoara, 8 November 2024
- Law, Taxes, Vandalism, Art… And an Impossible Choice, at the International Conference EUFIRE-RE 2025, Iași, 9-10 May 2025
- The Derogatory Urban Zoning Plan and the 20% Limit by Which the Initial FAR Can Increase: Some Thoughts on the Provisions of Art. 32(7) of Law no. 350/2001, at the 6th National Conference on Urban Planning and Territorial Development Law, Bucharest, 15 May 2025
Research Projects
- Research internships Université Robert Schumann Strasbourg – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003; Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008;
- Director of the IDEI Grant 2432 (contract no. 921/2008) Incoherence of the activity of public authorities in valorizing state properties and administrative-territorial units (2008-2011)– source of financing: PCE type financing, financing volume: 233,368 lei.
Affiliations
- Member of the Association “Henri Capitant” of Friends of French Legal Culture (since 2007)
Contests and Prizes
- Annual Award for Excellence in Scientific Research awarded by Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2024)