The Centre for Legal Research (CCJ), predecessor of the Exegetical School following the Post-Glossator Method - established by the distinguished Professor Dr. Valerius Ciucă and a number of young teaching staff - received, in April 2010, the approval of the Council of the Faculty of Law and the approval of the University Senate, which, by Decision no. 73 of 29.04.2010,  decided, in art. 1, "to establish the Centre for Legal Research as a structure subordinated to the Senate of the "Petre Andrei" University of Iaşi.”

The goal of the Centre for Legal Research is to create a true school of national, inter- and multidisciplinary, scientific research in the field of law from a comparative and historical perspective, and from that of the main trends currently available in this field.

Also, by the structure and the subjects of its courses, the Centre for Legal Research is one of the Romanian education and research establishments that are able to approach, at a new level, the fundamental coordinates of the scientific research and expertise in the field of law and its adjacent fields, in line with the demands imposed by the endeavor to improve the law and the public government and to harmonise the national legal framework with that of the European Union.

The Centre for Legal Research is an entity compatible with the similar centres from Romania and from abroad, which actively participates in the life of the academic community.