The International Conference “Perspectives of European Business Law”

4th edition

12 December 2025

Bridging Borders: EU Freedom of Establishment

9:00-9:30 – Registration and welcome

09:30–09:40 — Opening session

Associate Prof. PhD. Ovidiu Ioan Dumitru – Dean of Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies 

09:40–10:00 — Keynote speaker – Professor PhD. Christos Kazantzis

Panel 1 (10:20–11:20) – Digitalization and the Impact on the Right of Establishment 

Moderator – Senior lecturer PhD.  Andreea Stănciulescu

• Lawyer, PhD.  Stelian Mic — Crypto Service Providers and the Concept of „Real Seat”: How Does EU Corporate Mobility Apply to De-Territorialized Digital Businesses
• Judge, PhD. Beatrice Ramașcanu — How Digital Justice Affects the Right of Establishment
• PhD. Candidate Iulia Didu & Senior lecturer PhD.  Roxana Chirieac — Crossing Borders at the Speed of Code: Digital Reformation  of the Right of Establishment
• Keynote speaker  – Judge, PhD. Amelia Onișor — Legal Challenges to Freedom of Establishment in the EU Digital Market

11:20–11:35 — Coffee break

Panel 2 (11:35–13:25) 

Freedom of establishment and current legal challenges 

 Moderator –  Lawyer, PhD. Stelian Mic

• Keynote speaker  – Professor PhD.  Patrick Sensburg (University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia) — Political Tasks arising from current Case Law on Freedom of Establishment
• Diplomat (MAE) –  EU Litigation Unit of the Government Agent – Lia Popescu — Balancing Market Access and Professional Regulation: Recent CJEU Case Law on Freedom of Establishment of Lawyers
• Lawyer CMS Elena Andrei — Corporate Mobility and Cross-border reorganizations within the EU
• Professor PhD. Raluca Dimitriu — Workers’ Protection in the Context of Transfer of Undertaking and its Function of Conditioning the Freedom of Establishment in European Labor Law
• Judge, PhD. Răzvan Anghel — Considerations on the possibility that Regulations on Working Conditions constitute Restrictions on the Freedom of Establishment in the European Union

13:25–14:00 — Lunch

Awards ceremony – Bridging Borders: EU Freedom of Establishment – Students’ Perspective

Official sponsor: Romanian Society of Business Law (ARDA) 

Panel 3 (14:25–15:55) – Corporate Mobility and Economic Regulations – Moderator Marius Ezer

• Keynote speaker  – Professor PhD.  Mohammed Alsudais — Fiduciary Duty in Flux: The CSRD’s Impact on Corporate Mobility and the Strategic Calculus of Seat Choices in the European Internal Market
• PhD. Radu Canțăr –   Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Labour, Family, Youth, and Social Solidarity –  The Concept of Unlawful State Aid: Member state Obligations and the  Consequences of Non-compliance
• Senior lecturer PhD.  Livia Călin — Freedom of Establishment and the pressure of International Criminal Investigation: between Corporate Mobility and Economic Security 
• Assist. prof. PhD., Lawyer Liviu Viorel — Condition for Unfair Terms – Law no 193/2000 as Romania’s Implementation Law
• Visiting professor PhD.  – Faculty of Law, Pompeu Fabra University – Alexandru Lazăr — The transfer of Shares or other Legal Economic Acts authorized by a Notary in an EU Country other than the Country where the Document is to take Effect must be entered in the Relevant Public Registry
• Assist. prof. PhD., Lawyer Marius Ezer — Comparative Review of EU Regulation 2015-848 and US Chapter 15 on Cross border Insolvency

15:55–16:10 — Coffee break

Panel 4 (16:10–17:40)

Tema: Freedom of Establishment between Competition, Sustainability and Regulated Professions – Moderator – Senior lecturer PhD.  Roxana Chirieac

• Associate prof. PhD.  Ana Vidat, Sener Ali, Professor MD PhD MSc HDR ERT Carolina Negrei — Digitalization, Mobility in the EU: Implications for Companies and Medical Professions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Lawyer, PhD Candidate, Mădălina Cotruț — Home Office PES under the 2025 update of OECD Model Commentary
• Associate prof. PhD. Ana-Maria Lupulescu — The Freedom of Movement and Residence and the Recognition of Same-sex marriages in the European Union – the Effects of the CJUE Judgment in Case C-713/23
• Assist. prof. PhD., Lawyer Larisa Capisizu — Reevaluating EU Freedom of Establishment through the Jurisprudence of Edil Work 2 (C-276/22)
• Senior lecturer PhD.  Andreea Stănciulescu &  Senior lecturer PhD.  Roxana Chirieac — The 28th Regime. A new Legal Framework for Innovative Companies
• Assist. prof. PhD. Laura Lazar & Professor PhD.  Ioan Lazar — EU Competition Law between Market Freedom and Public Interest
• Associate prof. PhD. Dragoș Mănescu, Safeguarding data and trust in the accelerated European digital business landscape.

17:40–17:50 — Final conclusions & Networking

Publication Oportunities

All the papers that will be presented at the conference must be in English and will be published in the conference’s proceedings and the parters’ journals like:

• Revista „Dreptul” – „Law” Review – a well known both national and international academic review indexed by the following databases: Ebsco, and CEEOL

• European Business Law Journal, a double-blinded peer-reviewed open-access international academic review