UNIVERSITIES IN DIALOGUE: SOLUTIONS TO THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW
Between September 25-28, 2025, the Law Faculty of the Moldova State University hosted some beautiful activities, organized in collaboration with the Law Faculty of the University of Craiova. The academic environment, researchers, legal practitioners, doctoral, master’s students, and students participated in discussions addressing the new realities of the existence of the contemporary state, the critical situation at the national, regional and international levels, in order to configure answers to the interrogations of the time and redefine the rule of law.
The collaboration activities began with the presentation of the volume ‘Statul român între liberalism și naționalism’ [’The Romanian State between Liberalism and Nationalism’], authored by Prof. Dan Claudiu DĂNIȘOR. According to the author himself, the book will constructively analyze articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 and 11 of the Romanian Constitution, which define the principles that found the state and its relations with other states, trying to reconcile, through interpretation, the two forms of constitution that coexist in all constitutional systems of modern liberal democracies organized as states of law. The work is of great interest to professors, researchers and students and can be consulted at the university library or at the Laboratory of Scientific Research ‘Comparative Public Law and E-Government’ within the Law Faculty of the MSU.
Another moment of scientific and educational valorization of the current dimension of the rule of law was the organization of the round table with the generic title ‘Redefining the mechanisms of the rule of law in contexts of instability and crises: collaborative university perspectives’. The event addressed such topics as: structural vulnerabilities of the rule of law in Moldova and Romania and the new European paradigms, experiences and good practices from the region, separation of powers and independence of justice in times of crisis, emerging risks for human rights in times of crisis, the role of academia and inter-university collaboration in redefining the mechanisms of the rule of law.
The organized activities brought together teams from the two institutions involved in researching ‘Challenges and avenues for improving the mechanisms of the rule of law in the context of current crises’ and ‘Socio-economic and legal mechanisms for ensuring the well-being and security of citizens’.
