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HomeFaculty’s TeamTeaching StaffPrivate Law DepartmentProfessor Radu Nicolae CĂTANĂ

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Professor Radu Nicolae CĂTANĂ

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Academic Involvement

  • Company Law
  • Corporate governance. Advanced Corporate Law (graduate level, English)
  • Company and Corporate Governance Law (graduate level, Romanian)
  • Ph.D. coordinator

Education and Training

  • Fulbright Senior Award, UC Berkeley, Law School, 2011

  • Research fellow, Max-Plankt-Institut Auslandisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, 2008

  • Post doc internship, Comparative Business Law, Institut de Droit du Travail, Aix en Provence, France, 2005

  • PhD in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2002, The role of judiciary in the operation of business companies, coordinator prof. Ph.D. Ioan Turcu)

  • Law Bachelor Degree, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (1996)

Recent Publications

I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes

  1. Radu N. Catană, Adina Ponta (2022), Fiduciary duties in Big Tech corporate governance through the lens of future regulation of digital services, Family for Europe, an Europe of families/Trad. (Obligațiile fiduciare în guvernanța corporativă „Big Tech” prin prisma viitoarelor reglementări ale serviciilor digitale, Familie pentru Europa, o Europă a familiilor),   Ed. Dan A. Popescu, Sergiu Golub/Ed. Hamangiu, 2022, ISBN 978-606-27-2144-2, p. 79-96

  2. Radu N. Catană, Alina Oprea, Ioan Sumandea-Simionescu (2019), Study on the law applicable to companies. Country report for Romania, eds. Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, Federico Mucciarelli, Edmund Schuster, Mathias Siems, The Private International Law of Companies, CH Beck – Hart – Nomos, Munchen – Sussex, 2019, p. 642-660

  3. Radu N. Catană, Ioan Sumandea-Simionescu (2018), Shareholders’ agreements. National Report for Romania) S. Mock, K. Csach, B. Havel, International Handbook on Shareholders´ Agreements: Regulation, Practice and Comparative Analysis, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2018, 1st ed., pp. 509-538, ISBN(ISBN 978 3 406 71457 3 (C.H.BECK) ISBN 978 1 5099 2387 8 (HART) ISBN 978 3 8487 4679 8 (NOMOS)

  4. Radu Bufan, Lucian Bercea, Radu N. Catană (2015)/ed., Company restructuring. Instruments of company Law and insolvency Law /Trad. (Restructurarea întreprinderii. Instrumentele dreptului societar și ale dreptului insolvenței), Ed. Universul Juridic, Bucureşti, ISBN 978-606-673-632-9, 2015

  5. Radu N. Catană, Teodora Raț, Laura Lazăr (2015), Competitiveness of study programs in Legal Sciences: Comparative analysis regarding the needs of legal professions and students of Faculty of Law, “Babes-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca/Trad. (Competitivitatea programelor de studii în Șttințe juridice: Analiză comparativă privind nevoile profesiilor juridice și ale studenților Facultății de Drept-Universitatea „Babeș-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca) Ed. Hamangiu, Bucuresti, 2015, ISBN 978-606-27-0469-8

  6. Radu Bufan, Radu N. Catană, Lucian Bercea (2013)/ed., Commercial Law at the confluence of two codes/Trad. (Dreptul comercial la confluenţa a două coduri), Ed. Universul Juridic, Bucureşti, ISBN 978-606-673-099-0, 2013

  7. Radu N. Catană (2012), Commercial Law in Power point/Trad. (Drept comercial în powerpoint), Universul Juridic, București, 2012

  8. Radu N. Catană (2012), The reform of corporate governance of state-owned enterprises in Romania. A critical analisys, Universul Juridic, București, 2012

II. Articles

  1. Adina Ponta, Radu N. Catană (2023), Considerations on Possible ”Ownership” of Data and the European Legal Framework on Data Rights/Trad. (Consideraţii cu privire la un posibil „drept de proprietate” asupra datelor şi cadrul legal european privind drepturile legate de date), Revista română de drept privat, 2/2023, p. 90-112

  2. Ionut Florin Popa, Catană Radu N. (2022), An autonomous law of electronic contracts or of e-commerce?/Trad. (Un drept autonom al contractelor electronice sau al comerţului electronic?), Revista română de drept privat, 1/2022, p. 15-18

  3. Catană Radu N., Ioan Șumandea Simionescu (2022), Algoritmic trading and high frequency trading. Evolution and efficiency of European and national regulatory framework /Trad (Tranzacţionarea algoritmică şi tranzacţionarea de mare frecvenţă. Evoluţia şi eficienţa cadrului de reglementare european şi național, Revista Română de drept privat,1/2022/ p. 61-74

  4. Catană Radu N., Adina Ponta (2021), Fiduciary duties in Big Tech corporate governance in light of future regulations of digital services, Legal accelerators, https://legalaccelerators.com/fiduciary-duties-in-big-tech-corporate-governance-governance-in-light-of-future-regulations-of-digital-services, Nov. 2021

  5. Catană Radu N. (2016), Ioan Șumandea Simionescu, Study on the law applicable to crowd funding – Country Report for Romania, Revue internationale des services financiers/International journal of financial services 4/2016, Larcier, Bruxelles

Research Projects

  • Grant Director, ”Vision. Adaptability. Performance in law graduate studies”, AM-POSDRU/156/1.2/G/139077 (2014-2015).

  • Grant Director, ”Legal approach to improving corporate governance. Meeting the challenges of the recent economic and financial global crisis”, CNCS/UEFISCDI, PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0158

  • Grant Director, ”Professional Internship Ab ACADEMIA ad ADVOCATUM”, POSDRU/109/2.1/G/81440

  • Grant Director, ”Dynamics of Romanian joint venture company law as a consequence of adopting the principles of corporate governance. Towards a new balance between ownership, management and control”, CNCSIS/UEFISCU/PNCDI II-IDEAS, 385/1.10.2007, CNCSIS 493 IDEI

Competitions and Awards

  • Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, Diplom and medal of French Government,  2016, for supporting French-Romanian academic cooperation
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