Attorney at law
SBA certified mediator
Me CATALINA CONSTANTINA
Upon completion of a two-year traineeship in a Neuchâtel law firm and with the Cantonal Court of Neuchâtel (Court of Appeal), I was admitted to practice in Switzerland in November 2016.
Between 2017 and 2021, I practiced litigation mainly in the field of civil liability, insurance law and family law, as associate attorney for Prof. Dr. Sabrina Burgat in Neuchâtel, before founding Constantina Law Firm, in October 2021. I also held a position as PhD student and teaching assistant for Prof. François Bohnet at the Neuchâtel University.
Previously, I practiced international commercial and investment arbitration for four years, as an associate attorney for Prof. Pierre Tercier (in Fribourg) and as legal trainee in several international law firms (in Paris and London).
I hold a double BA in Law (Universities of Bucharest and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2007), a Masters degree in Litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution methods (Paris II Assas University, 2008) and a certificate of advanced studies (CAS) in mediation (Sion, 2015). I am admitted to practice in Romania since 2011.
I am currently an active member of the Neuchâtel Bar Association and of the Swiss Bar Association and an inactive member of the Bucharest Bar Association.
Ever since 2019, I have been acting as coach for the student teams participating in the mediation competition organized by the CMAP, Paris.
Preferred area of activity : civil and liability and insurance law.
Publications
François Bohnet/Catalina Constantina, L'arbitrabilité des conflits individuels de travail, in Bohnet/Dunand/Mahon (ed.), Procédures en droit du travail, Neuchâtel 2020
François Bohnet/Catalina Constantina, Jurisprudence des juridictions suisses, in Bohnet et al, Conventions et protocoles de la Haye annotés, recueil annoté avec les jurisprudences des juridictions belges, françaises, luxembourgeoises et suisses ainsi que des juridictions européennes (CEDH et CJUE) / sous la dir. de Guillaume Payan, Bruxelles 2020
Défaut de préalable de conciliation: moment de l’invocation et principe de la bonne foi (note sous l'arrêt du TF 5A_347/2018 du 26 octobre 2018), RSPC 1/2019
Working languages
French, English, Romanian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (passive knowledge), German (limited)