Tudor Chiuariu | |
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Minister of Justice | |
In office 5 April 2007 – 10 December 2007 |
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President | Traian Băsescu |
Prime Minister | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
Preceded by | Monica Macovei |
Succeeded by | Teodor Meleşcanu (ad interim) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Botoşani, Romania |
June 13, 1976
Political party | National Liberal Party (1997–2015) |
Occupation | lawyer |
Tudor-Alexandru Chiuariu (born July 13, 1976) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. An independent, he served as Justice Minister in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet from April to December 2007. He represented Bacău County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2012, and has represented Mehedinți County in the Romanian Senate since 2012.
Chiuariu was born in Botoşani to Carmen, a schoolteacher, and Alexandru, an economist, and has an older brother. The family moved to Suceava when Tudor was four; his father died three years later. His mother's parents taught in Cernăuţi until 1940, when the area was occupied by Soviet troops and they fled to near Rădăuţi–a background Chiuariu cites as a motivation for measures he took while Justice Minister to simplify procedures for members of the Romanian diaspora to regain citizenship. His father was from Grămeşti, Suceava County, born into a family of small landowners (răzeşi). From 1995 to 1999, Chiuariu attended the Law Faculty of the University of Iaşi.
Since 2000, he has worked as a lawyer, and is a member of the Iaşi bar. He took additional law courses at Bucharest's Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy in 2002-2003, and since 2004 has been pursuing a doctorate in penal law at Iaşi. From 2000 to 2007, he taught Law at the Petre Andrei University of Iaşi, where he has also been involved in research since 2000 and in editing its law review since 2006. In 2008 he lectured at the National Institute of Administration, and since that year he has been associate lecturer at the George Bacovia University of Bacău. He has written a number of journal articles in his field. Chiuariu is unmarried.