George Girlesteanu, Drept Constitutional si institutii politice (Constitutional Law and Political Institutions).

Gherghe, Cosmin Lucian

George GIRLESTEANU, Drept Constitutional si institutii politice (Constitutional Law and Political Institutions), Bucharest, Universul Juridic Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-973-127-604-5, 468 pages

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After the Revolution of 1989, the Constitutional law experienced a legitimate revival and transparency. A new Constitution came into force (1991), revised in 2003 and laws were elaborated in the vision and perspective of a democratic and rule-of-law state. In this context, came out the course under the signature of the Assistant Professor George Girlesteanu, professor at the Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences of Craiova who distinguished by a prodigious activity of writing; if we consider the two books: The general organization of the administration and The Autonomous administrative authorities, which were published by the Universul Juridic Publishing from Bucharest in 2011 and various articles published in trade journals.

Right from the beginning is accentuated the fact that the author proposed and succeeded to approach, as other authors in similar papers (D.C. Danisor, Constitutional law and Political institutions, vol. I, General theory, C.H. Beck Publishing, Bucharest 2007 to mention only this) in the 468 pages of the paper, issues on the General theory of the State (Part I) and The Regime of the Political institutions (Part II).

In the structure of the paper, Part I comprises six titles as follows: Title I. The Territory, which consists of four chapters (pages 7-14); Title II. The Population comprises two chapters (pages 15-33); Title III. The Suzerainty and the State relations with the law also comprises two chapters (pages 34-53); Title IV. Associative structures of the civil societies is organized in three chapters (pages 54-70); Title V. Constitutional principles and organization of the Romanian unitary state which comprises three main chapters(pages 71-107) and Title VI. The official language, the minority languages and the public administration summarizes four (pages 108-120). Altogether Part I has 120 pages in which the author with the exactness specific to the committed researcher, approaches and succeeds to competently particularize each ,,issue" proposed for study, using the bibliography brought "to date" and even internet sources.

Part II of the paper is also structured on six titles which are ordered as follows in the economy of the paper: Title I. Parliament of Romania, in its turn made up of five chapters (pages 121-191); Title II. President of Romania, organized on two chapters (pages 192-243); Title II. Government and specialized central public administration, made up of two chapter (pages 244-281); Title IV. Judicial authority, with three subchapters (pages 282-306); Title V. The means of pressure between powers in the Romanian state to the rule-of-law, made up of three chapters (pages 307-343) and Title VI. Romanian Constitutional Court, also structured on four main chapters (pages 344-438). 317 pages have been allocated to these two parts, as it results from the economy of the paper.

The paper concludes with an ample and varied General bibliography (pages 439-458), structured according to the methodology (recommended by the specific of the work) on main areas: I. Treaties, courses, monographs, where 148 authors are listed; II. Articles and studies which make reference to 75 authors and conclude with section III. Regulations and case law, the paper amounting to a total of 468 pages.

On the whole, the course is well documented, the exposition is clear, concise, coherent, which proves that the author masters the treated issues. This summary is intended to be, by the approached set of issues, an useful guide for the students of the faculties of ,,law, administrative sciences or political sciences and form (as also mentioned on the cover IV) a detailed scan of the constitutional system of the institutions of the current Romanian state".

Also, the paper critically and professionally examines the "Jurisprudence of Romanian Constitutional Court".

Each chapter and subchapter is well structured, reasoned, an important aspect representing the analytical approach and less the descriptive approach based on an ample documentary base, which gives the paper consistency and scientific support.

Also, the paper Constitutional law and political institutions proves to be a scientific approach, balanced in terms of economy of volume on chapters and subchapters and offers a sufficiently relevant image on the approached issues.

Exploring person, familiar with scientific research, and the paper is based--as we have also emphasized above--on an ample and varied alphabetical bibliography.

We can not conclude this presentation without noticing the flawless graphic conditions which give an additional quality to the course, making it easily readable and interesting.

In conclusion, we can say that the paper to which I have made reference responds to the distribution of students' knowledge under the curriculum on the two main parts: Constitutional law and Political institutions and recommends itself as an important and useful summary.

Cosmin Lucian GHERGHE

University of Craiova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Political Sciences Specialization

E-mail: avcosmingherghe@gmail.com