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HomeFaculty’s TeamTeaching StaffPrivate Law DepartmentProfessor Mircea-Dan BOB-BOCȘAN

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Professor Mircea-Dan BOB-BOCȘAN

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Academic Involvement

  • Roman Private Law
  • Law of Successions – Inheritances, Donations and Wills

Education and Training

  • post-doctoral studies: Paris 2, Max Planck Institut Hamburg, Ottawa, Montréal, St. Etienne, Marseille, Louisiana State University,  Edinburgh

  • Philosophy Bachelor Degree, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2006)

  • PhD in Law, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca – 2000, Evoluția testamentului în dreptul roman (coordonator: Vladimir Hanga)

  • Law Bachelor Degree, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (1997)

Recent Publications

I. Books, Book Chapters, and Studies in Collective Volumes
  1. M. Bob-Bocșan, „Sur l’équité en famille et son application (possible) en matière de révocation testamentaire”, în „Mélanges en l’honneur de la professeure Brigitte Lefebvre”, Thomson Reuters Canada, Toronto, 2026, p. 237-250 ISBN 9782898470790;
  2. M. Bob-Bocșan, A. Murphy, „Revocation and Survival of a Will – An Alternative Solution?” in A. Parise, M. Vitetta, M. Séjean (editors), „Moréteau on law, language and heritage”, Praxis Jurídica Ediciones, Buenos Aires, vol. I, 2026, p. 63-78;
  3. M. Bob-Bocșan, „Would it be useful to regulate family property? Brief examination of a proposal emphasizing the reform of the former Romanian Civil Code”, in „Instruments for Preserving the Unity of Family Businesses and Agricultural Assets”, Budapest, Central European Academic Publishing, Budapest, 2026, p. 295-304;
  4. M. Bob-Bocșan, „Manual de succesiuni și liberalități”, Ed. Universul juridic, București, 2025, 328 p.;
  5. M. Bob-Bocșan, A. Murphy, Enforcing a judgment debt against property wrongly included in a certificate of succession, in A. Stoica, M. Schmitz, P. Gielen (coord.), L’efficacité du titre judiciaire et son exécution/ The efficiency of court decisions and its enforcement, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2024, p. 119-126;
  6. M. Bob-Bocșan, Eléments de droit roumain applicables aux successions et aux donations, in G. de Foy, E-J. Navez (coord.), La fiscalité des successions et des donations internationales, ed. a 2-a, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2023, p. 1360-1378;
  7. M. Bob-Bocșan, Manual elementar de drept privat roman, ed. a 3-a, Ed. Universul juridic, Bucureşti, 2022
II. Articles
  1. M. Bob-Bocșan, „Despre oportunitatea și posibilitatea testamentului (olograf) electronic”, în Pandectele notariale române 1/2026, p. 65-80;
  2. M. Bob-Bocșan, A. Murphy, The Unworthy and the Ungrateful: On the Mirroring Legal Patterns of France, Québec, and Romania, în Journal of Civil Law Studies 16 (2024), no. 1, p. 100-120;
  3. M. Bob-Bocșan, The Foundations of the Unworthy Heir Rule in Romania, în European Review of Private Law, nr. 6 (2021), p. 913-924;
  4. M. Bob-Bocșan, V. Ciucă, A Ship Named Feminae, in the Mediterranean Port Ovidius … Some Ovidian, Legal and Moral, Ideas. Florilegium, în „Feminae. Proceedings of the Eight international conference of the Balkan Association of Roman Law and Roman Legal Traditions, Rjeka, 5-6 October 2023”, în Ius Romanum 2/2023, p. 69-77.

Recent Conferences

  • 22.05.2025 – keynote speaker, IV Congreso Iberico e Internacional – Desafios del derecho de sucesiones, la Univ. Complutense, Madrid: Le droit roumain des successions, entre le code civil de 1864 et le code civil de 2011

  • 13.12.2024 – moderator and speaker, section I Consimțământ și nulitate în dreptul privat. Perspectiva europeană, Bienala Facultății de drept a Univ. Oradea: Consimțământ și nulitate în dreptul roman
  • 25.10.2024 – speaker, Dinamica interpretării normei juridice – scenarii teoretice, ipostaze practice, Facultatea de Drept, UAIC Iași: Două texte ale codului civil și interpretarea lor posibilă : testamentul olograf și rezerva succesorală
  • 28.08.2024 – keynote speaker, Summerchool Cum punem în practică inovația în drept și științe administrative?, hosted by Facultate de Drept a Universității Ovidius din Constanța: Care sunt ingredientele necesare inovației în Drept? Studiu de caz: rezerva succesorală
  • 7.VI.2024 – speaker, Instruments for preserving the unity of family businesses and agricultural assets – perspectives of legal history, hosted by Central European Academy, Budapesta: Would it be useful to regulate family property? Brief examination of a proposal emphasising the reform of the former Romanian civil code
  • 23.V.2024 – speaker, international conference Codification et codes, organized by Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française and Faculty of Law, Univ. Plovdiv, Bulgaria: Les circonstances et les conséquences de la codification civile roumaine de 2011
  • 30.XI-1.XII.2023 – speaker, Histoire du droit et historiens du droit en Europe. Etat des lieux et perspectives, organized by Univ. Paris 2 – Panthéon-Assas and AHFD (https://assohfd.fr), national reporter for the round tables nr. 1 and 5
  • 5-6.X.2023 – speaker, Eight International Conference of the Balkan Association of Roman Law and Roman Legal Tradition, găzduită de Univ. din Rijeka, Facultatea de Drept, Cres, Croatia: A Ship Named Feminae, in the Mediterranean Port Ovidius… Some Ovidian, Legal and Moral, Ideas. Florilegium (with. V. Ciucă)
  • 22.VI.2023 – Keynote speaker, Symposium Litera legii și literatura dreptului – 30 de ani de la reînființarea Curții de Apel Cluj, organized by Curtea de Apel Cluj and Facultatea de Drept a UBB: Inovațiile magistraților romani reflectate în scrierile lui Cicero

  • 27.IV.2023 – general reporter for 2e Table ronde Le notaire et les successions transfrontalières, 7e Colloque des notariats de la Méditerranée „Les notaires et les activités transfrontalières”, organized by Association „Henri Capitant” des amis de la culture juridique française and Conseil supérieur du Notariat, UINL și UNNPR Poiana Brașov

Research Projects

  • research CNCSIS grant type MC (nr. 284/ 18.10.2018), University of Ottawa, Canada

  • research grant CNCS-UEFISCDI, Evolution of family as a concept and its relevance for the inheritance order – a socio-juridical, religious and philosophical investigation (PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0249)

  • research CNCSIS grant type MC, Culture et droit civil en Roumanie (nr. 56/III.2008)

Teaching Mobilities and Research Scholarships

  • Erasmus Teaching Mobility: 2025 and 2026, Universidad Complutense, Madrid; 2009, Universitatea Alecu Russo, Bălți, Republic of Moldova

  • bourse AUF de perfectionnement à la recherche, Université de Montréal, Canada (2009)

Affiliations

  • Société internationale pour l’histoire des droits de l’Antiquité (2002)

  • Société d’histoire du droit (2002)

  • Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française (2003)

  • Akademie für europäisches Privatrecht (2009)

Competitions and Awards

  • 2020 – Annual Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research granted by Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca

  • 2009 – Andrei Rădulescu prize, granted by the Union of Romanian Jurists, for the book „Instituțiile lui Iustinian”

  • 2009, 2010, 2011 – Annual Prize Professor of the year, granted by Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca