Laboratory of legal research on new technologies (LCJNT)
On May 25, 2021, the Legal Research Laboratory on New Technologies (LCJNT) was established, as a non-formal structure, without legal personality, within the Legal Research Institute „Acad. Andrei Rădulescu” of the Romanian Academy. LCJNT includes specialists in the fields of relevance and carries out its activity in specific forms according to the mission and objectives shown below. After its establishment and inauguration, LCJNT will develop and establish its program of scientific activity.
Justifying considerations:
The 21st century has created major challenges for the legal field, especially in terms of the effort to adapt to new realities. Thus, in this context, the classical disciplines were fractured, determining the formation of new directions of research, in new, inter- and transdisciplinary fields. Society faces three major challenges: the environment, including climate, food and new technologies.
Legal issues are dynamic and sometimes emergent. Practice, technology and technique are at the forefront of regulation. In the conditions of accelerated scientific development (especially of new technologies), legislators have become surveillants, often observers of certain states of fact, which in the meantime – until the adoption of optimal legislation – will have been overtaken again by scientific and technical development.
The new technologies imply, on the one hand, a legally coherent interdisciplinary structuring. There are fields, disciplines of law, which participate in the elaboration of a coherent structure, as well as in a research methodology of different subjects, themselves under debate. On the other hand, new technologies require a transdisciplinary approach, considering, in particular, the technical component. The use of new technologies has been realized for a long time, and there are still situations today, based on regulations that do not include the new realities.
There are research areas of new technologies: artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, digital skills, connectivity, European data strategy, digital services – all these areas with some of the most interesting applications in: robotic process automation, 5G, blockchain, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, data protection, cyber security, quantum computing, virtual or augmented reality.
Mission:
The creation of complex research teams, for the foundation of legislative solutions, in collaboration with the research and university environment, with public institutions and authorities, as well as with private entities.
Strengthening the doctoral school by including doctoral researchers in projects, research studies and organized events (workshops, focus groups, debates, conferences).
Objectives:
The inter- and transdisciplinary approach, by increasing the visibility of fundamental legal research within projects targeting new technologies.
Creating networks of researchers in the field of new technologies, with members of the academic communities at home and abroad.
Creation of a platform for debate, information and substantiation of solutions of the nature of new technologies under public debate.
Priorities and general guidelines:
Preparation of the adaptation process in Romania of the European legislation, as well as the proposals related to the European Commission’s policy on „A Europe prepared for the digital era”.
Integrating legal research into a broader, grounded, scientific and technological framework.
Coord. CS I, Prof. Daniel-Mihail ŞANDRU
Members:
Dr. Daniela Duță
Dr. Alexandru Georgescu
Dr. Daniela Ilinca
Dr. Marius Mitrea
Scientific Committee:
Dr. Tudor Avrigeanu, Acad. Andrei Rădulescu Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy
Dr. Dragos-Alin Călin, Acad. Andrei Rădulescu Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy
Dr. Irina Alexe, Acad. Andrei Rădulescu Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nicolae Dragoș Ploeșteanu, UMFST
Mihai Banu, Acad. Andrei Rădulescu Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy
Dr. Cătălina Goanța, University of Utrecht
Prof. Dr. Nicolae Grofu, Police Academy „Al. I. Cuza”
Collaborators:
Dr. Cătălina Goanța
Dr. Irina Alexe
Dr. Cristian Ducu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nicolae Dragoș Ploeșteanu
ACTIVITY
- 2022-2023 CJEU Jurisprudence and European Consultations
- March 14, 2023 – CISCOREP & CRP & LCJNT: Anatomy of a cookie: how it communicates with a user
- 2021-2022 CJEU Jurisprudence and European Consultations
- May 12, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: On consent and its withdrawal: as simple as that? On the Advocate General’s conclusions in case C-129/21, Proximus
- May 5, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: C-319/20, Meta Platforms Ireland, judgment of April 28, 2022: are consumer protection associations also data protection associations?
- April 14, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Communications retained: generalized and undifferentiated retention of transfer data and location data and the exceptions of the Court of Justice in case C-140/20
- April 7, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Opinions of the Advocate General presented on 31 March 2022 in case C‑77/21, Digi
- March 31, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Data Law in the European Union (2022)
- March 24, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Current issues regarding the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in the European Union. Protecting media freedom in the EU: new rules
- March 24, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Current issues regarding the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in the European Union. Protecting media freedom in the EU: new rules
- March 17, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Facebook Ireland and others – CJEU judgment of 15 June 2021 delivered in case C-645/19: on cooperation
- March 10, 2022 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: C-175/20, Valsts eizumenu dienests – compliance with the principles of personal data protection in the request for communication of information
- February 21, 2022, SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: The relationship between the precautionary principle and data protection
- October 28, 2021 – SCOSAAR | CSDE | LCJNT | Focus group: Consultation of the European Commission „Civil liability – adaptation of liability rules to the digital age and artificial intelligence”.
