Repere de interpretare în drept. Ghid de interpretare în materie civilă.

Lidia Barac looks at how to read law in civil cases. She asks how Romania’s Constitution relates to Constitutional Court rulings. She shows where those rulings rank among legal rules. She also asks where the EU’s founding treaties fit within national law.

This guide to legal practice sets out key principles. It brings together ways and tools to interpret law. It is for judges, those who practise law, and legal scholars. The second edition adds to and revises the work. It adds rules on how to read national and European law together. Romania’s place in the EU helps shape this discussion. So do Constitutional Court rulings that have sparked dispute. Barac looks at their effects on case law. She also asks how they affect public regard for justice.

Her approach reflects her own concern with the work of judging. She sees it as work that needs both thought and care. Judges must uphold legal values to serve public order and the public good.