Executive President - Ioan Stanomir
Ioan Stanomir is Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Bucharest. In 2008, he was chair of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Constitutional and the Political Regime in Romania. Selected publications:
The Conservative Consciousness: Introducing an Intellectual Profile (Bucharest: Nemira, 2005);
Liberty, Law, and Justice. A History of Romanian Constitutionalism (Jassy: Polirom, 2005);
The Conservative Mind:
From Barbu Catargiu to Nicolae Iorga, Curtea Veche Publishing, Bucuresti, 2008;
The Limits of the Constitution (together with Radu Carp) (Bucharest: C. H. Beck, 2008);
Of Sounds and Memory – Fragments of a History of Ideas (Bucharest: Curtea Veche Publishing, 2009). Professor Stanomir has co-authored the three-volume book
Explorations into Romanian Communism (vol. I and II with Paul Cernat and Ion Manolescu; vol. III with Paul Cernat). Research interests: comparative political thought, constitutionalism, history of ideas, and politics of culture under communism. He has recently finished a volume about democratic intellectuals during the early years of the post-war era, within the context of gradual Sovietization of Romania.