About

I was a judge in Romania. This publication is what came after.

I have a curious mind and I am a lifelong learner. What interests me most is how people make decisions, and which patterns keep repeating when they do. I wanted to understand this properly, so I studied it and added it to my years of judicial experience.

Being a criminal judge left me with questions. Why punishment does not really change the person behind the act. Why suffering usually makes the behaviour worse instead of correcting it. Why a system built to re-educate works for only a few.

Those questions took me to the psychology of change: how new habits are built, what makes a person act on a decision, and how to ask the right questions when you want to help yourself or someone else improve their life.

I joined the judiciary in 2013 and left in November 2025. I studied at the National Institute of Magistracy in Bucharest (2013–2015), after an LL.M. in Business Law at Nicolae Titulescu University and a law degree from the University of Bucharest. In 2026, I completed the Decision Making programme at Yale SOM Executive Education. I am now opening my practice as an independent arbitrator and I’m completing the Global Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Judging teaches a specific discipline. You read everything, including the parts nobody expects you to read. You listen. You write down your reasons, and those reasons have to hold when someone opens the file a year later, looking for the flaw.

That discipline is the subject of everything here.