%0 Journal Article %T CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT OVERLAPPING CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LIABILITY FOR THE SAME OFFENSE %A MIRELA GORUNESCU %J Challenges of the Knowledge Society %D 2011 %I Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest %X The ne bis in idem principle is one of the fundamental principles of a criminal trial in a state of law. This paper focuses on the question whether a possible overlapping between criminal and administrative liability for the same offense is or not a violation of this principle. Both the national and the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence were investigated. By reporting to the European case we concluded that such a situation represents a case of bis in idem. %K criminal liability %K administrative liability %K overlapping two kind of legal liability %K non bis in idem %K res judicata %U http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2011_articles/index.php?dir=01_law%2F&download=cks_2011_law_art_019.pdf