The International Conference

"The Rule of Law in the Digital Era"

Cluj-Napoca, 8-9 May 2015

The Conference was organized by the Faculty of Law, Babeş-Bolyai University, in partnership with prestigious organizations: the U.S. Secret Service; Western Union; eBay; Bitdefender; Banca Transilvania; the e-Europe R&D Centre of the Faculty of Management, Comenius University of Bratislava; the Legal Informatics Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Milan; Microsoft; Intensa; Betfair; the Cluj Police; Kaspersky Lab; the Romanian Association of Intellectual Property Law; and the Eco Romania XXI Foundation.

We welcomed 160+ participants from 10 countries: Austria, Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, U.K., and the U.S.

Main Speakers:

Mr. Nico TUIJN, Senior Justice, Court of Appeal 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Mr. Christopher J. TOLEDO, U.S. Secret Service

Ms. Marisa MAC ISAAC, Rule of Law Officer, U.S. Embassy Bucharest

Professor Dr. John A.E. VERVAELE, Institute of Criminal Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, President of the International Association of Penal Law (IAPL)

Mr. Paul J. VITCHOCK, Assistant Legal Attaché (FBI), U.S. Embassy Bucharest

Mr. Herbert SMETANA, Director - Global Investigations, Western Union, Austria

Mr. Petru SINCULEI, Senior Manager – Global Investigations, Western Union

Dr. Cătălin COȘOI, Chief Security Strategist, Bitdefender

Mr. Tiberius RUSU, Principal Investigator, Technical Investigation Team, eBay

Dr. Marco A. CALAMARI, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights

Dr. Giovanni Battista GALLUS, Supreme Court Lawyer, Fellow at the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights and at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, Italy

Dr. Ludovic TIRELLI, Attorney at Law, Switzerland, Representative of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC)

Professor Dr. Gordana GASMI, Institute of Comparative Law, Serbia

Mr. Keith SHARP, Director, Global Security and Investigations, MoneyGram International, U.K.

Mr. Silviu SOFRONIE, Forensics Expert, Bitdefender

Professor Dr. Dusan SOLTES, Director, e-Europe R&D Centre, Comenius University, Slovak Republic

Professor Dr. Ioana VASIU, Faculty of Law, Babeş-Bolyai University

Clips with images from the Conference and interviews in English and Romanian are available at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZML3y6IzQDI

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhHGV89h1rk