Law Summary of the Habilitation Thesis the Stakes of Comparison

West University of Timișoara Research Field: Law Summary of the Habilitation Thesis The Stakes of Comparison Theory in the Study of European Law Associate Professor Raluca Bercea, PhD This habilitation thesis has a cumulative rather than a monographic character, presenting the main results of the previously accumulated academic, professional and scientific activity (A), as well as the directions for the evolution and development of the academic, professional and scientific career in perspective (B). A. Academic, professional and scientific achievements 1. Academic achievements I am a graduate of the Faculty of Law within the West University of Timișoara and of the Faculty of Letters, Philosophy and History (French-English) of the same university. I am associate professor (conferențiar universitar) at the Faculty of Law within the West University of Timișoara since 2012, at the Public Law Department, after going through the stages of the academic career since 1997. I held seminars and, later, courses in the graduate Law Degree program, initially, at the discipline Legal Language – French, then at the disciplines European Union Institutional Law, respectively Comparative Law and Legal Systems, for which I have drafted university courses, as well as in the Masters Degree program in European Union Law, at the disciplines Principles of European Union Law and Harmonization of European Private Law. In 2015, I helped the transformation of the Masters Degree in Dreptul Uniunii Europene (European Union Law) into an English-language Masters Degree, European Union Law, which I am currently coordinating and in which I am lecturing on Principles of European Union Law and Harmonization of European Private Law. My teaching career, both in Comparative Law and in European Law, includes visiting professorships at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), at the Master Globalisation et pluralisme juridique (in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016) and, respectively, at Master de Droit européen – formation délocalisée de l’Université Lyon 3, France, at the Faculty of Law of Szeged (Hungary), in 2011. I have also initiated, together with the Faculty of Law of Università degli Studi di Udine (Italy), an intensive international teaching program of European Union Page 1 of 9 Law, which has been running uninterruptedly since 2007, on the topic of Users’ Rights and Market Regulation (where I taught in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011) and, respectively, Consumers’ Rights in the European Union. Alternative Dispute Resolution and Collective Redress (where I have taught since 2013). I have initiated cooperation relations with professors from the foreign universities where I have been invited to teach, as a result of which several professors have held Comparative Law or European Law courses or conferences at the Faculty of Law within the West University of Timişoara: Pierre Legrand (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France), Simone Glanert (University of Kent, United Kingdom), Frédéric Sudre and Alexandre Viala (University Montpellier I, France), Elisabetta Bergamini (University of Udine, Italy), Erszebet Sandor-Szalay (University of Pécs, Hungary). I coordinated, in 2012, the section of European and International Law at the International Biennial Conference of the Faculty of Law within the West University of Timişoara and, respectively, I have initiated and coordinated the Comparative Law and Interdisciplinary section of the same conference in 2014, 2016 and 2018. I edited and I supervised the publication of the 4 collective volumes resulted from the contributions of the participants in these sections of the conference. I launched, in 2018, and I am coordinating, at the West University of Timişoara Publishing House, the collection De-a dreptul, meant to bring the fundamental problems of the law to the attention of the non-specialist academic public. I am the director of the Centre of Comparative Law and Interdisciplinarity functioning within the Institute for Social Sciences of the West University of Timişoara. I have initiated and I am coordinating a Comparative Law and Interdisciplinarity Circle for students. The activities carried out with the students in this circle materialized in 2016 in the appearance of the first issue of the Timișoara Law School Students’ Journal, in the organisation of two sessions of student communications held in French, in cooperation with the Romanian group of Association “Henri Capitant” des amis de la culture juridique française, in the organisation and coordination of two sections of scientific communications for students at the International Conference of Doctoral Students in Law, organized by the Faculty of Law within the University of Timişoara. Between 2014 and 2017, I organized and coordinated, at the Faculty of Law of Timişoara, in cooperation with the National Institute for Lawyers’ Training and Development – Timişoara Regional Centre, a summer school in European Law, for the final year students of the faculty and the trainee lawyers of the centre. I coordinate, together with my colleagues teaching European and International Law, the students’ teams participating in the international moot court competitions in International Law and European Union Law (Jessup, Telders, Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition, European Law Moot Court Competition, etc.). I have initiated in 2017 and I have been coordinating ever since a debate for high school students on the topic Law Challenges in the 21st Century, which I have conceived as an instrument to promote civic education and the academic values of legal sciences in the final classes of pre-university education. Page 2 of 9 2. Professional achievements Since 2017, I am a trainer in the European Law of Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and since 2016 a representative of the National Association of Romanian Bars in the Council of Europe’s “HELP” training department (info point for Romania). Starting with 2012, I am the director of the Timişoara Regional Centre of the National Institute for Lawyers’ Training and Development, and, since 2010, a trainer in European Law. Between 2012 and 2018, I was Vice-Chairman of the National Commission for the Bar Admission Examination and Vice-President of the National Commission for the National Institute for Lawyers’ Training and Development Graduation Examination. I have examined the candidates in the disciplines European Union Law and European Human Rights Law in the 2012-2018 graduation examination sessions. As a training expert of the Council of Europe, I have held continuous professional training programs for lawyers (in cooperation with the National Association of Romanian Bars and the National Institute for Lawyers’ Training and Development) in the years 2017 (in the field of data protection) and 2018 (in the field of anti-discrimination) and, respectively, for magistrates and lawyers (in cooperation with the Superior Council of Magistracy), in 2017. Also, at the request of the National Association of Romanian Bars, I participated as a national training expert at the national seminar organized in the framework of a project funded by the European Commission – “ACTIONES” (Active Charter Training through Interaction of National Experiences) in 2017, and I have the capacity of national coordinator in another such project, which is underway starting with 2017 – the National e-Learning Active Charter Training (“eNACT”) project. I have developed over the years several legal opinions on European Law at the request of the High Court of Cassation and Justice – the Administrative and Fiscal Section, the Panel of Judges competent in preliminary ruling on questions of law, and of the National Association of Romanian Bars. I have participated, as a national rapporteur, or I have sent, in this capacity, reports to the international comparative law conferences and congresses organized by the Association “Henri Capitant” des amis de la culture juridique française in 2016 and 2017 and, respectively, the 2018 edition of the Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Fukuoka (Japan). These reports have been published in the international volumes of those congresses. 3. Scientific achievements I have published the results of my research activity in the form of 30 studies and articles in legal journals with an international and national recognized prestige (The Translator, Diritto e Politiche dell'Unione Europea, Romanian Journal of Comparative Law, Noua Revistă Română de Drepturile Omului, Revista Română de Drept European, Dreptul, Pandectele Române, etc.). I have published 5 books, of which 2 as author and 3 as co-author; I have contributed with chapters to more than 20 collective volumes; I have edited 5 collective volumes; I translated books and studies of European Law and Comparative Law of renowned Page 3 of 9 foreign authors. All of these have been published at international legal publishing houses (Presses Universitaires de France, LGDJ, Routledge, Bruylant, Springer, Elsevier, etc.) or prestigious national ones (Humanitas, Polirom, C.H. Beck, Universul Juridic, Editura Universității de Vest, Lumina Lex, etc.). I have organized or participated as a speaker at 20 international conferences and 25 national conferences on European Law (e.g. within the Council of Europe) and Comparative Law (e.g. at the invitation of the British Association of Comparative Law or of the Association “Henri Capitant” des amis de la culture juridique française). I have participated, as an expert or post-doctoral researcher, on several

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