Aurel Ciobanu
Dean of the Bucharest Bar Association

He has been a member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 1996 and is the principal attorney at Ciobanu Aurel Law Office, specializing in Criminal Law. Since 1998, he has served as a faculty member at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Law, where he holds a PhD in Law and is part of the Criminal Law Department, teaching Criminal Procedural Law. He is also a founding member of the Research Center for Criminal Sciences.
 
He has been an instructor at the National Institute for Training and Professional Development of Lawyers (INPPA) since its establishment, and has participated as a member of the committees responsible for developing examination topics for the bar admission and graduation exams at INPPA.
 
Since 2015, he has served as a Counselor of the Bucharest Bar Association and a Counselor of the National Union of Romanian Bar Associations (UNBR), and has acted as an expert in several collaborative programs with the Ministry of Justice.
 
Additionally, he is an accredited lecturer at the Academy of European Law (ERA), specializing in International Criminal Cooperation. He was a member of the drafting committee for Law no. 255/2013, which implements Law no. 135/2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code and amends various legislative acts with criminal procedural provisions.