Liviu Mihaileanu

University of Bucharest | Unibuc

A theological perspective on adoption and the biblical model of caring for orphans. The Bible has specific references to orphans and their social care, James 1:27 defining pure and faultless religion before God as looking after orphans and widows in their distress. In the New Testament, the image of adoption appears within the messages of the Apost...

The paper analyzes how the term huiothesia (υἱοθεσία) appears in the writings of the Apostle Paul, its significance, and possible effects on Christian life. Biblical writings are analyzed both from the perspective of orphan care and adoption, in the relevant cultural contexts, respectively Jewish, Greek-Roman and Asiro-Babylonian. Then, the identif...

Intervention through family placement and foster care as a transitional measure prove to be preferable to any form of institutionalization. In case of children who cannot be reintegrated into the biological family, adoption proves to be the best reparative solution, considering the physical and psycho-emotional health of children in the protection...

The increased visibility of orphan-centered Christian missions in the last century, as well as related fundraising campaigns in the context of orphancare mission trips, calls for a careful examination of this phenomenon from a missiological perspective. This article argues for the need of a theological basis in understanding orphancare and adoption...

From the practical life of faith perspective, recent studies show that, in Romania, the culture of adoption is no different in the communities of (neo)Protestant churches from the national population and their communities have not been exposed to specific messages about adoption theology. Church leaders see no practical or theological connection be...

Cauzele intrării copiilor în sistemul de protecție, instituirea măsurii de plasament, declararea adoptabilității și prioritatea la adopție.

On paper, Romania’s Child Protection System offers a child temporary intervention until they are reintegrated into their biological family, or placed in an adoptive family. In reality, this “temporary intervention” usually lasts until they become an adult. For these children, who cannot be reintegrated into their biological family, their path to ad...

How we make the most relevant news and information available to our people when and where they need it considering the complex PwC environment: 223,000 people in 3 distinct lines of business from 743 offices based in 157 countries.

When we talk about innovation it’s easy to come up with the iPad example but the product itself is only one side of the story. We’re just looking at the tip of an iceberg. Have you ever wondered what’s below the sea? Let’s take a few moments to see how this innovation world looks like.

The research aimed to cover a 360 degrees angle of the lobbying activities in Romania and as a consequence the surveys were aimed to reach all its three dimensions: the population affected directly or indirectly by lobbying activities (vox populi), the initiatiors (lobbyists) and decision makers (politicians). The results allow thus for the first t...

Only after I began to think “out of the box”, I understood that knowledge management comes in fact to maintain the organization’s brain, to keep it active, to develop it so the organization is able to work and innovate. Organizations that have dysfunctional knowledge management begin to suffer the same effects that the Alzheimer disease has on huma...

Romanian lobbyists publicly announced the launching of a voluntary registry of lobbying activities is going to be open by lobbyists themselves. How will this make lobbying more transparent and why do lobbyists prefer self regulation instead of a law with similar conditions?

What connection is there between defence contracts, banks, USA, Tanzania and Romania? A possible answer may be found in this article aiming to look for reasons of the sharp rise in international corruption cases compared to the global downturn trail. References are made to SFO’s investigation of British Aerospace (BAE) as well as several corruption...

Lucrarea dorește să vină în sprijinul demitizării caracterului ocult al activității de lobby prin definirea exhaustivă, prezentarea tehnicilor folosite în cadrul acestei activități, clarificarea aspectelor privind încadrarea juridică a infracțiunii de trafic de influență și diferențele dintre aceasta și lobby, precum și prin analizarea comparativă...

Dezbaterea reglementării activităţilor de lobby reprezintă o problematică actuală a dreptului public din România, identificarea caracteristicilor acestora la nivel internaţional şi a iniţiativelor româneşti fiind un pas esenţial în fundamentarea unei viitoare reglementări la nivel naţional. Lucrarea de faţă analizează comparativ reglementările act...

Following the results of Rywin’s case in Poland, this article focuses on stating the difference between lobbying and traffic of influence and the necessity of lobby regulation in Romania.

Commissioner Siim Kallas announced considers as a great success the fact that 2,100 lobbyists voluntarily registered themselves in the EC’s “Register of interest groups”. Is this the case? A possible answer as well as an analysis of what lobbyists self regulation may bring to improving transparency in Romania can be found in this article.

Debates on lobby regulation uncover a significant issue of the Romanian public law system as identifying its characteristics at international and Romanian level are an essential step in building the arguments of future regulations. In this article, I aimed to perform a comparative analysis of lobby regulation characteristics in the European parlia...

Rapid change is quickly transforming the practice of internal audit raising significant issues for audit leaders and their chief stakeholders. As I highlighted in the article “Internal Audit Changing Expectations,” written for the “Financial Audit” Journal (published in April 2009), there is a clear gap between the current focus of many internal au...

“The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Romanian companies” is an article written for the “Financial Audit” Journal in July 2008. The article evaluates the benefits of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for shareholders by studying the lobbying behaviour of investors and corporate insiders to affect the final implemented rules under the Act. All over the world,...