A new generation of pioneers is driving Romania’s evolving legal market. Sophie Evans reports from Bucharest

Even before Romania’s emergence as a democratic state and market economy, the talent of the country’s younger generation was already being recognised – albeit by a brutal dictator. Indeed, the architect that Nicolae Ceausescu chose in 1984 to lead the army of designers building his ‘House of the People’ – the second-largest building in the world – was a 28-year-old woman, Anca Petrescu.