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Curriculum Vitae
Christian Alunaru is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University ‘Vasile Goldis’, Arad, Romania. He is also a practising barrister and a member of the National Council of the Romanian Bar Association. He has a PhD in civil law from ‘Babes-Bolyai’ University, Cluj, Romania. In 1998, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has published papers on real rights, tort law, contract law, liability for defective products and other papers on various aspects of civil law in a number of Romanian journals. In Austria, he has published a paper on the influence of the Austrian ABGB on the civil law in Transylvania, in a collection of articles at Manz (2004), the chapter on the Romanian Legal System in the encyclopedia of Romania, published by LIT (Vienna, 2006) and a paper on the development of Romanian contemporary private law (Manz, 2008). In 2008, a translation of this paper was published in the journal of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Cracow). He has also published papers at Manz on the development of the right of succession (2009) and on the protection of consumer rights (2010). In Slovakia he published a paper about the reform of private law in Romania (Jura Edition Bratislava 2009). He published papers on the new Romanian Civil Code in the European Review of Contract Law (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010), in the Österreichische Notariatszeitung 5/2010 (Vienna), in the journal of the Polish Academy of Sciences ”Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego” 3/2011 (Cracow) and in the volume ”Leben mit der Wirtschaftskrise – Ein Dauerzustand ?” (Frank&Timme,Berlin 2011). In 2011 he published a paper on the importance of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) on the civil law in Romania in the aniversary volume issued by the University of Vienna.
He is the author of a book on foreigners’ rights concerning real property in Romania. He is a member of the German Jurists’ Forum and also of the Austrian Jurists’ Forum. Since 1994, he has taken part in all congresses and conferences organised by the two professional associations. In 2010 he was visiting professor at the Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Vienna. Since 2011 he is fellow of the ECTIL and member of the ELI Council (European Law Institute). He has been a participant at ECTIL conferences since 2004.
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