Precursori, mentori, discipoli în elita juridică clujeană a secolului al XX-lea
Precursors, mentors, disciples in 20th century Cluj law elite

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the interwar period, the careers of the second generation of specialists strengthening the legal elite in Cluj and promoting high-class scientific research were outlined. The tradition inaugurated by the predecessors of Cluj legal science has stimulated the creating ambitions of the disciples and influenced the publication in the legal literature of works of an undeniable scientific interest that contributed to the development of the Romanian legal culture at the end of the 20th century. The new professors continued on many of the theoretical and methodological paths opened by their antecessors, teaching, alongside traditional subjects, a series of subjects meant to provide in-depth knowledge on the specifics of standards, institutions, and legal concepts relevant for the dynamics of the national law system. Starting the first years of reconstruction of the country following the disaster left behind by the war, the generations of graduates of Cluj law school played an important role in the administrative and legal and social and politic structures of the country, generally standing out through their competency and through a certain elegantia iuris, features specific to the legal training offered by Cluj law school. In the political realities after 1945, Cluj jurists have shown the importance of legal consistency in the Romanian law system, opposed iuris prudens the collectivist Sovietism and, alongside the academic jurists in Bucharest and Iaşi, made efforts to free the legal science from the burden of ideological intrusions so as to create a unitary legal system, with a sound theoretical foundation. The activity of Cluj specialists mainly focused on the creation of a doctrine and pragmatic model adapted to the legal realities of the post-war Romanian society, and constantly contributed towards the innovation of the substance and form content of the law and towards adapting the national law system to the modern trends.Foreground personalities, part of an academic structure with a clear structure and hierarchy, intellectuals specializing in the legal field and professors such as Gheorghe Sofronie, Tudor Drăganu, Aurelian Ionaşcu, Ion Albu, Dragoş Rusu, Victor Cădere, Graţian Porumb, Ioan Ceterchi, Virgil Câmpeanu, Vladimir Hanga, Dumitru Firoiu, Ioan Gliga, Matei Basarab, Ernest Lupan, Gheorghe Boboş, Liviu Pop, Ion Deleanu, Marţian Niciu and others, who stood out within the academic law departments or, quite often, as active magistrates or attorneys, have developed, in various forms of expression, an original legal creation, publishing training courses, treaties, monographs. Through its doctrine, the law school in Cluj fostered the crystallization of the theoretical perspective on the legal reality, the development and sharing of the legal science, acknowledged as such by the legal community and the society at large.

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