Romanian law is a civil law system whose basic law is the Constitution, adopted in December 1991 and revised in October 2003. In the early 2010s Romania modernized its core legislation with four new codes, a Civil Code in 2011, a Civil Procedure Code in 2013, and a Penal Code and Penal Procedure Code both in 2014, replacing civil law provisions that dated to 1864, 1887 and 1953. The judiciary includes the Constitutional Court of Romania, which reviews the constitutionality of legislation, and the High Court of Cassation and Justice as the highest ordinary court. The wave of recodification reflects Romania post-1991 transition to democratic governance and its continued integration of a modern civil law framework.
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Classification
Legal Family Law of Romania
Connections
In Legal Family
Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
In Legal System
Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Civil Law Family), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.
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Source Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah (Wikipedia)
Source Bogdan Aurescu (Wikipedia)
Source Civil Code of Romania (Wikipedia)
Source Iulia Motoc (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Mona Pivniceru
Source Penal Code of Romania (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Valer Dorneanu
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Romania, found in there.
Sources
1. Law of Romania (Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Mona Pivniceru
Includes: Mona Pivniceru, Mona Maria Pivniceru (born 9 September 1958) is a Romanian politician, jurist and magistrate, university professor.View the Source Wikidata: Valer Dorneanu
Includes: Valer Dorneanu, Valer Dorneanu (born 21 November 1944) is a Romanian politician and jurist.View the Source List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: French Civil Law Tradition, opening list, French civil law bullet: Romania named directlyView the Source Penal Code of Romania (Wikipedia)
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The Penal Code of Romania (Codul penal al României) is a document providing the legal basis regarding criminal law in Romania.
Civil Code of Romania (Wikipedia)
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The Civil Code of Romania (Codul civil al României, commonly referred to as Noul Cod Civil, the New Civil Code, officially Law no. 287/2009 on the Civil Code) is the basic source of civil law in Romania.
Bogdan Aurescu (Wikipedia)
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is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Jus
Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah (Wikipedia)
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was a Moldavian-born Romanian historian
Iulia Motoc (Wikipedia)
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is a Romanian judge and international law expert
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