Conferences

The new season of the National Theatre Conferences will debut in October, a month dedicated to a partnership with the Dilema Veche magazine. The chief editor of the magazine, Sever Voinescu, will be in dialogue with Valeriu Stoica, former Minister of Justice (October 13th, 2019, at the Black Box Hall) and with the theatre critic George Banu (October 20th, 2019, the Black Box Hall). Both conferences will start at 11.00 am!

On Sunday, October 13th, 2019, from 11.00 am, the NTB Black Box Hall will host the conference Sever Voinescu in dialogue with Valeriu Stoica. The business of law and the law of business.

About the conference
“The world is in search of justice since always and all that we can find, apparently, is personal satisfaction or dissatisfaction. How do we relate to justice? Do we have any idea what is right before we let our eyes cry to see it? But maybe justice is one of those ideals that we all strive for without even being able to define it rationally. Then maybe it is better to negotiate it. Isn't that exactly what democracy is teaching us? For a long-quoted ancient wiseman, law is the art of good and equity. But if it is the art of negotiating the satisfaction we often call "justice"? Law is a precise science, with clear rules, of impeccable logic, often akin to mathematics. But as long as the right is rigorous, so much as its object - justice - is capricious. Doesn't law, after leaving academic treaties, become a business rather than a law? And if so, is that really bad?
In a Romania really obsessed with prisons, corruption and criminal laws, in order to better understand what justice should be and what the role of law should be in society, it is more appropriate to look at a field crucial to our common good, where the law also plays an essential role, but which does not cause too many passions: at the business field. We all have lessons to learn from the business world. Among others, can we understand, carefully looking at the business world, what justice is in fact? ” Sever Voinescu

        Sever Voinescu (b. 1969, Ploiesti) graduated in 1992 from the Law Faculty of the Bucharest University. Since 1994, he has acted as a lawyer in the Bucharest Bar. 1994 - 1996: teaching assistant at the Department of Law of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. 1998 - 2000: Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2000 - 2003: General Consul of Romania in Chicago. 2004 - 2008: Coordinator of the Foreign Policy Programme at the Institute for Public Policy. 2008 - 2012: Member of the Romanian Parliament, for the entire term of office leading the Parliament Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Since January 1st, 2016, he is the editor-in-chief of the cultural weekly Dilema Veche and, as of the same year, he produces the weekly programme Christiana Europe on Trinitas television. Since 1993, he has published over 3,000 articles, comments and essays in cultural or daily publications such as Dilema/ Dilema veche, 22, Observator cultural, Cotidianul, Evenimentul Zilei. He has contributed to the content of several volumes and is especially proud of a book dedicated to opera, called Canta che ti pasa - Talks with Virginia Zeani.

       Valeriu Stoica (b. 1953, Bucharest) is a politician, lawyer and professor of civil law at the Law Faculty of the Bucharest University. He became a member of the National Liberal Party in 1990, was its vice-president from 1997 to 2001 and president of the party from February 2001 to August 2002. He was the Minister of Justice in the governments led by Victor Ciorbea, Radu Vasile and Mugur Isarescu. In 2006, he left the PNL and became a founding member of the Liberal Democratic Party. Valeriu Stoica is a founding partner of the Stoica & Asociaţii Civil Society of Lawyers, where in recent years he has created one of the most important law firms in Romania, specialized in civil and commercial litigation. He is the author and co-author of a large number of legal works in the fields of civil law, commercial law, human rights.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu