REMEMBRANCE IN TIME - Index of

HOMO JURIS
PROFESSOR ALEXANDRU HERLEA
(1907-1979)
Elena HELEREA 1
Memento
The relations of cooperation in the human society are, in a state of law, regulated by
judicial, moral, religious, technical and others, either shaped spontaneously or drafted, in
order to give coherence and consistency to the community life. The normative order
which is always social, too, reveals more dimensions, one of which being the judicial one.
Thus, this constitutes the ground for the natural quality of the man as Homo Juris, which
underlines the moral dimension of man’s quality, a natural one also, as a moral being. We
consider that initially the judiciary, the morality, religiosity and technicity stick together
and evolve together, set up as a cultural unity, induced by the same axiological horizon -
values and principles.
The judicial laws are as compulsory for Homo Juris as the moral ones for Homo
Moralis, and as those specific to Homo Ludens. However, the judicial law is either
imperative (prohibitive), either permissive, outlining certain freedom areas, through
which liberty itself is consecrated.
Homo Juris is a law topic which enters into legal relations with specific rights and
obligations in respect of the laws that gets involved into judicial that involve rights and
obligations according to current laws: the members of a society, only, collaborate and cohabit
in a judicial law that renders the dimension of that society as far as collaboration
and cohabitation is concerned. The collaboration is granted through the prescriptive
organization of the facts and documents of the law subject closely related to property,
cohabitation being guaranteed by organizing prescriptive societal manifestations of the
natural and legal persons [1].
Homo Juris is not recognized, respected and appreciated in all societies. This is proven
both during the beginning of the communist regime in Romania and by the work and the
destiny of Alexandrul Herlea, Ph.D in Law. His tragic destiny is exemplary for people of
such moral greatness, whose aim has been to protect above life the law and rule of the law.
The activity of professor Alexandru Herlea
The evocation of the professor of civil law at the Commercial Academy in Cluj -
Brasov, Alexander Herlea, in the seventh edition of the International Symposium called
“Communist Regimes – Recent Memory for an Open Society” was chosen for several
reasons.
1 Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania.