The Faculty of Law welcomes the publication of a new volume of Administrative Law signed by Professor Ovidiu Podaru

We are pleased to announce the publication, by the head of the Administrative Law course, Professor Ovidiu Podaru, of a new work: O. Podaru, Administrative Law, vol. I – The Administrative Act. Old and new landmarks for a different theory, 3rd updated ed., Ed. Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2026. The author’s words are eloquent and we retain them here:

All my life I have tried to write “differently”, not because I would have wanted to stand out with all my heart, but for two other reasons: on the one hand, because, always questioning things, I felt that Law had to be “different”, that everything that had been written until then, even if it was not wrong, was still not enough; on the other hand, because, at 20 or so, it seemed inconceivable to me that emotion would be left out of the picture. Sober, often dry, rigid, inflexible legal writing did not characterize me at all. So I took an enormous risk, that of being different.

On this basis, the first edition of this volume was born, and then the second edition appeared, much improved: twelve years of intense theory and practice were felt.

I thought that in the third edition I would say everything I had left to say: it will not be so, however, this denouement has been postponed for the next edition, which I planned for the following year: this year, time simply did not have the patience.

For some time now, the news has been circulating that a Draft of the new Administrative Procedure Code is about to enter into force. I have gone through it several times, and I have seen that even its content has undergone, in the last two years, many changes, most of them amazing improvements. I have taken them over, together with a brief analysis, in the pages of this volume. And I wondered: is this what the future looks like? Because, if fifteen years ago the first edition of this work looked like a clumsy giraffe lost on the ice caps of the polar landscape, now, looking at this project, but also at the current jurisprudence, it is as if the winter aspect has begun, imperceptibly, to gain color and the ice caps to transform into savannah… I suddenly realized that this “different” on the cover is starting to sound artificial: in administrative law, it seems that the time has come for a new normality.