Contact: alina.oprea@law.ubbcluj.ro
Teaching Staff
Associate Professor Alina Elena OPREA
Academic Involvement
- International Business Law (in Romanian and in English)
- Private international law (in English)
- Commercial Law II (in English)
- Internal and international business contracts
Education and Training
- PhD in Law, Pantheon Assas Paris II University (2014, mention: Tres honorable avec felicitations): European Union Law and internationally mandatory norms (coordinator: prof. emeritus Bernard AUDIT)
- Law Master’s Degree/Diplome d’études approfondies, Panthéon-Assas Paris II University, Droit international privé et du commerce international (2004)
- Diplome Superiéure en Droit Comparé, Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé, University of Strasbourg (2003 and 2006)
- Law Bachelor Degree, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2003)
- Superior certificate of French Law Panthéon-Assas Paris II University, (2002)
Publications
I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
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E.A. Oprea, Droit de l’Union Européenne et lois de police, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 522 p. ;
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A. Oprea, Dreptul comertului international, Hamangiu, 2023, 730 p.; D.A. Popescu,
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E.A. Oprea, Drept international privat, Hamangiu, 2023, 1300 p.;
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E. A. Oprea, “E-commerce and the protection of consumers in European private international law – selected issues from the ECJ’s case law”, in (coord.) C. Santaolalla Montoya, Consumer protection in the European Union: challenges and opportunities, European Commission Publishing, 2023, p. 153-172 ;
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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, p. 75-107;
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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
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EA Oprea, „Tag along and drag along clauses – conventional limits of sharholder’s right to dipose of the participation in the share capital of a company”, RRDP 2/2024, p. 213-229;
- DA Popescu, EA Oprea, “Legitimacy And Interest In The International Private Circuit. Observations On International Jurisdiction In Matters Of Divorce And Parental Responsibility”, RRDP, 4/2023, p. 197-255;
- E.A. Oprea, “In rem rights in cross border insolvency proceedings”, SUBB Iurisprudentia nr. 2/2023, p. 13-44;
- A. Oprea, „Arbitral awards electronically signed”, in In honorem Favius Antoniu Baias – Aparența în drept, Hamangiu, 2021, tom 1, p. 267-280;
- A. Oprea, “Viena Convention on the international sale of goods and the contracts on software”, RRDP, 2021, nr. 1, p. 511-531; A. Oprea, “Short remarks on the mitigation of damages rule in contractual matters”, RRDP, 2/2020, p. 226-245.
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A. Oprea, “The knock out rule and the conflict of general standard forms”, Studia Iurisprudentia, 4/2020, p. 787-821.
Recent Conferences
- Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la culture juridique francaise, Journées internationales coréenes, Seoul, 15-18 June 2025, Civil liability and artificial intelligence; topic : Artificial intelligence and liability for defective products
- Association Henri Capitant Bulgarie, Plovdiv, La codification et les codes, 23 mai 2024, Topic : Codification of private international law in Europe
- UVT Timișoara, Faculty of Law, UBBCluj Napoca, Faculty of Law, The national conference of Commercial Law, The economic analysis of contract, Timisoara, 14-15 June 2024, XIV-th ed., Topic : The clauses on distribution of the voting rights and the economic efficiency.
Research Projects
- Member of the project: Specificitate şi complementaritate în Dreptul privat european. Conflictele de legi si de jurisdicţii şi integrarea europeana (2009-2011, Grant IDEI-PCE, cod 2442, coordinator: dr. Dan A. POPESCU
- Member of the project: Evolutia conceptului de familie şi relevanţa sa pentru ordinea succesorala legala – o analiza socio-juridica, religioasă si filosofica 2011-2013 Grant IDEI-PCE, cod 174, coordinator: dr. Mircea Dan BOB
- National Reporter (with R. Catana, I. Sumandea), 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, coordinator: M. Siems, Gerner-Beuerle, E. Schuster, F. Mucciarelli.
- Director Grant UBB-GTC 31804 – Eficacitatea conventiilor atributive de jurisdictie in spatiul European, UBB, 2016-2017
- National Reporter, project: Cross-border proceedings in family law matters before national courts and CJEU, coordinator: Vesna Lazic, 2016- 2017
- National Reporter for 2018 Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, topic: Optional Choice of Court Agreements, Prof. M. Keyes, Griffith Law School, Australia, 2018
- National Reporter – European Seminar organized by the Minister of Justice – „ Cooperation between the EU Member States for the purposes of solving the civil cases regarding the wrongful removal or retention of a child”, 2018 (JUST/2015/JTRA/AG/EJTR/8681)
- Coordinator for UBB partener, Project: Legal counseling services for the victims of abuses or irregularities in public administration and justice, cod MySMIS: 111830 / cod proiect: SIPOCA377, Nr contract: 188/16.07.2018, 2018-2019
- National reporter, 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 University of the Basque Country, University of Navarra and ETC Europe 2018-2022
- National reporter, 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 Scholarships
- 2004-2007 – Research Grant funded by Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 University, for the preparation of a PhD thesis on “EU Law and the internationally mandatory norms”
Affiliations
- European Association of Private international Law (EAPIL)
- Romanian Institute for Commercial Law
Competitions and Awards
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Annual Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research granted by Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2016, 2024)
- IL Georgescu Award of the Jurists’ Union of Romania (2024), for the publication A. Oprea, Dreptul comertului international, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucuresti, 2023
- Excellence Award of the Jurists’ Union of Romania (2024), for the publication D.A. Popescu, E.A. Oprea, Drept international privat, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucuresti, 2023
- Traian Ionascu Award of Revista Română de Drept Privat for the publication D.A. Popescu, E.A. Oprea, Drept international privat, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucuresti, 2023
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Coordinator of the team of the Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, winner of the arbitration contest EnJOY THE EUROPEAN COURT of ARBITRATION (Bucuresti, 2024, 2025)