site.btaProf. Valchev: Balkan Association of Roman Law Facilitates Cooperation between Scholars

The Dean of the Faculty of Law at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and former minister of the education, Prof. Daniel Valchev, said here on Thursday that he is convinced that the participants of the 10th International IUS & LEX Conference will confirm the role of the Balkan Association of Roman Law and Roman Legal Tradition as a platform for effective cooperation between established scholars of Roman law and as a network for integrating young lecturers and researchers, providing a space for exploring new dimensions in the teaching and study of Roman law. Valchev spoke at the opening of the event at Sofia University.

The forum was organized by Sofia University's Faculty of Law.

Valchev noted that Sofia University, founded 137 years ago as one of the pillars on which the restored Bulgarian state was built, opened its Faculty of Law just a few years later, in 1892. Already in its first year, law students made up almost half of the university's student body. During the two semesters of that first academic year, lectures were given in only seven disciplines, one of which was Roman-Byzantine law.

The former minister of education said that the forum's theme, Jus et Lex, demonstrates the richness and depth of Roman legal thought and its contemporary projections.

The conference was attended by constitutional judges Yanaki Stoilov and Nevin Feti, by MPs, and by Justice Minister Georgi Georgiev. Participants in the event come from Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, the Republic of North Macedonia, Turkiye, Croatia, Romania, Italy, France, Spain, Poland and Switzerland. The forum will also mark the 10th anniversary of the electronic magazine IUS ROMANUM.