Dr. Cornelia Furculita

Consultant

cornelia.furculita@deminimislaw.com

Dr. Cornelia Furculiță is a lawyer specialising in WTO law, trade remedies, and EU trade regulation and compliance. She advises on WTO dispute settlement, market access, anti-dumping, countervailing duties, safeguard measures, and EU unilateral trade policy instruments — including the Anti-Coercion Instrument, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, and state-to-state dispute settlement mechanisms under EU free trade agreements. Her practice combines rigorous legal analysis with practical, client-focused counsel on some of the most technically demanding areas of international trade law.

Dr. Furculiță brings substantive expertise developed across years of research, policy engagement, and legal practice. Before joining De Minimis Law, she conducted postdoctoral research at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, where she co-authored Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy together with Professor Wolfgang Weiß, now a standard reference on the EU's trade enforcement agenda. She is currently a Lecturer at Moldova State University, where she teaches International Economic Law at master's level and Public International Law at bachelor's level. She has also advised BusinessEurope on WTO Appellate Body reform, conducted research visits at NautaDutilh and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, and gained early professional experience as a jurisconsult at Schönherr in Chisinau. Her work has been published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Springer.

She holds a doctorate in international law (summa cum laude) from the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, an LL.M. in International Trade and Investment Law from the University of Amsterdam, where she graduated in the top five per cent of her class, and a law degree from Moldova State University, where she finished first. She is fluent in Romanian, English, and Russian, with beginner knowledge of German.