Biography

Mihai Taşcă is doctor of history and law, senior researcher, Institute of History, State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova

Academy of Sciences of Moldova

The Academy of Sciences of Moldova , established in 1946, is the main scientific organization of the Republic of Moldova and coordinates research in all areas of science and technology.- Presidents :...

. Mihai Taşcă is the secretary of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

The Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist Totalitarian Regime of the Republic of Moldova is a commission instituted in Moldova by acting President Mihai Ghimpu to investigate the Communist regime and provide a comprehensive report allowing for the condemnation of Communism as...

.

In 2006-2008, Taşcă won two cases concerning the denial of access to information opened against the Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova

Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova

The Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova is the principal intelligence agency of Moldova. Since 2007, its director is Artur Reşetnicov....

, which denied access to its archive.

On March 18, 2008 Mihai Taşcă submitted an application to the Ministry of Justice, seeking access to the files of the political parties; he intended to carry out a study about the election campaigns. On April 15, the Ministry rejected the application. After the second refusal, the researcher sued the Ministry to the Court of Appeal on June 17. On September 30, 2008, the court ordered that the Ministry of Justice offers Taşcă the filed he asked for.

In 2001, he founded Revista de drept privat; now he is the editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 of this scientific magazine.

Works

• Mihail Taşcă, Sfatul Ţării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)

External links

• Ministry of Justice loses case on denial of access to information
• Mihai Taşcă câştigă pentru a doua oară un proces împotriva SIS
• Curtea Supremă de Justuţie: Accesul la dosarele Securităţii nu poate fi îngrădit
• Mihai Taşcă, doctor în drept, cercetător ştiinţific superior, Institutul de Istorie, Stat şi Drept al AŞM Preşedintele interimar al Republicii Moldova Mihai Ghimpu a emis un decret prezidenţial privind constituirea Comisiei pentru studierea şi aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova.
• Moldovan authorities going to condemn communist regime…
• Hundreds of thousands of cases to be examined by commission for combating Communism
• http://www.privesc.eu/?p=1884 - The first press conference of the Commission, Moldpress, January 18 2010. Video.
• http://www.timpul.md/article/2010/01/18/5881 - interview with Gheorghe Cojocaru, president of the Commission. http://www.timpul.md/article/2010/01/20/5933Vladimir Tismăneanu
  Vladimir Tismaneanu
  Vladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian and American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park...
  
  , Un moment istoric: Comisia de studiere a comunismului]
• Site-ul Parlamentului Republicii Moldova