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Associate Professor Elena Alina OPREA

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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

  1. E.A. Oprea, Droit de l’Union Européenne et lois de police, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 522 p. ;

  2. E. A. Oprea, Dreptul comertului international, Hamangiu, 2023, 730 p.;

  3. D.A. Popescu, E.A. Oprea, Drept international privat, Hamangiu, 2023, 1300 p.;

  4. 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 ;

  5. E. 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;

  6. E. 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

  1. E. A. 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;

  2. D. A. 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;

  3. E. A. Oprea, “In rem rights in cross border insolvency proceedings”, SUBB Iurisprudentia nr. 2/2023, p. 13-44;

  4. E. A. Oprea, „Arbitral awards electronically signed”, in In honorem Favius Antoniu Baias – Aparența în drept, Hamangiu, 2021, tom 1, p. 267-280;

  5. E. 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.

  6. E. A. Oprea, “The knock out rule and the conflict of general standard forms”, Studia Iurisprudentia, 4/2020, p. 787-821.

Recent Conferences

  • The European association of private international law, EAPIL Young Research Network, University of Luxembourg, 5th Project Conference of the EAPIL Young Research Network, Privacy and Personality Rights Violations in the Conflict of Laws, 26 March 2026, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Topic : The foreseeability in the national conflict rules concerning the liability for Privacy and Personality Rights Violations
  • Universidad Publica de Navarra, International Congress : „Five years of implementation of 8/2021 Act: lessons learned and challenges for the future”, Pamplona, April 22th-24th 2026 (Closure congress for the research project PID2021-127361NB-I00, „Discriminación a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de la capacidad jurídica en las situaciones internacionales e interregionales”), topic : The legal protection of vulnerable adults in Romania
  • UAIC Iași, Romania, in partnership with University of Poitiers, Faculty of Law, International Conference „Legal Perspectives on the Internet”, COPEJI 9.0: Governing the Ungovernable?, February 14ᵗʰ, 2026, Iasi, Topic : The sale of smart products and the seller’s obligation to software updates
  • UVT Timișoara, Faculty of Law, UBBCluj Napoca, Faculty of Law, The national conference of Commercial Law, XVI-th ed, Trade usages in business, Timisoarea, june 2026, topic : Contractual will, established practices and the agreed formalism
  • 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
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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)
  • National reporter, project PID2021-127361NB-I00, „Discriminación a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de la capacidad jurídica en las situaciones internacionales e interregionales”, Universidad Publica de Navarra

 

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

  • 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

  • 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)