Judge Simina Tănăsescu, a faculty member at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Law, has been elected as the new President of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR). Professor Dr. Simina Tănăsescu will serve a three-year term in this role.
Appointed to the CCR in 2019 by the President of Romania for a nine-year mandate, Professor Dr. Tănăsescu is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest (Class of 1991). She earned her PhD with the distinction “Très bien avec les félicitations du jury” from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Aix-Marseille III University in France (1997).
With extensive academic and professional experience, Professor Dr. Tănăsescu teaches courses at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Law in Constitutional Law, Constitutional Litigation, the Normative System of the European Union, and Legal Research Methodology. Since 2006, she has supervised doctoral and postdoctoral work in legal sciences.
She has participated as a director, researcher, or national rapporteur in numerous nationally and internationally funded projects. Professionally, she has represented the Romanian state in various European institutions, including the European Commission Delegation in Bucharest, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and the Council of Europe’s Group of Independent Experts. Between 2009 and 2011, she also served as the civil society representative on Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM).
Throughout her career, she has served as a trainer at the National Institute of Magistracy (2004–2019) and at the European Institute of Romania (2005–2019). She has also been a visiting professor at several European universities, including the University of Poitiers, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
In recognition of her scholarly work, she received the “Andrei Rădulescu” Award from the Union of Jurists of Romania in 2002 for her book Interpretarea Constituției. Teorie și practică (Interpreting the Constitution: Theory and Practice), and in 2008, the same institution awarded her the “Hanibal Teodorescu” Prize for Constituția României – comentariu pe articole (The Romanian Constitution – Article-by-Article Commentary).
In 2011, she was decorated by the President of the French Republic with the Ordre national du Mérite at the rank of Knight, and in 2018, she was awarded the Légion d’honneur, also at the rank of Knight.
Further details about Professor Dr. Simina Tănăsescu’s professional activity can be found here.
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