MENU FOR JUSTICE. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum of Judicial Studies

1. MENU FOR JUSTICE. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum of Judicial Studies Daniela Piana (University of Bologna)

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3. Task force I: “UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS “ • Coordinators: Sofia University “St. KlimentOhridski” • University of Southern Denmark Members: • Sofia University “St. KlimentOhridski” • University of Southern Denmark • University Napoli Parthenope • KatholiekeUnivesiteit Leuven • Institute of Criminology, former Institute of Fosensic Studies – Malta • University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne • Istanbul Bilgi University • University Munster • Institute of law and technology-Institut de dreit I tecnologia UAB • Centre for European studies – Bifrost University • University of Cyprus • Institute of Political Science and Governance Tallinn 

4. Planning Your Training

5. Task force II: GRADUATE PROGRAMS • Coordinators: - University College of London Faculty of Laws - Law Faculty Vytautas Magnus - Kaunas Members • University College of London Faculty of Law • Law Faculty Vytautas Magnus - Kaunas • European University Institute – Florence • CNRS – Centre de Thèorie et d’analyse du Droit – Nanterre • Babe Bolyai University ClujNapoca • University of Palermo • University of Orebro – Sweden • University of Bratislava – Slovakia • University of Bucharest – Faculty Political Sciences • National University of Ireland Galway • University of Catania • Centre Perelmann – Brussels • Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration – Athens • Masaryk University

6. “Learning” the institutions

7. Task force III: PhD Programs Coordinators: - University of Utrecht - Central European University – Budapest Members: • University of Utrecht • Central European University – Budapest • University of Calabria – Faculty of Political Sciences • University of Lapland – Rovaniemi • Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics – Wroclaw • Institut d’etudes europèennes - Brussels • Centro de Estudios Sociais Coimbra • Arena Oslo – Norway • University Carlo III – Madrid • Université de Luxembourg

8. Learning from making theory into practice

9. Task force IV: “VOCATIONAL TRAINING” Coordinators: - Institut de HAUTES Etudes sur la Justice – Paris - National Institute of Magistracy - Bucharest Members: • Institut de HAUTES Etudes sur la Justice – Paris • National Institute of Magistracy – Bucharest • UniwersytetSzczecinski – Stettino • Research Institute on Judicial System – IRSIG • Graduate School of Riga – Latvia • Vienna University of Administration and Business • Universidad Complutense de Madrid • Centre d’Etudes de la vie politique – Brussels • University of Pavia • Supreme Court of Slovenia • Instituto de CienciasSociais, University of Lisbon • University Piemonte Orientale • State Institution of Higher Professional Education Gorzow

10. WP 1: MANAGEMENT • This WP comprises managerial and financial dimensions of MFJ planning. • It will unfold in parallel to the all activities and will last 36 months. • Expenditure are allocated on travel and staff costs. • The project manager is appointed under the expenditure scheme associated with this WP • Responsible: University of Bologna

11. WP 2: MAPPING THE STATE OF ART • The WP will be carried on by 4 TASK FORCES - created in the kick off meeting. The TFs focus on the three cycles of the Bologna process and on the vocational training. • The WP will last 8 months. • Partners assigned to task forces will work within the framework of each task force. • Task force meetings will be hosted according to a decentralized and diffuse planning scheme. • DataSet management: University of Bologna

12. WP 3: DESIGN OF AN INTEGRATED PATH FOR LEGAL AND JUDICIAL EDUCATION • The Four Task Forces will work in parallel as in the previous WP on the four tracks of the legal education and judicial training cycle: 1st and 2st cycles; PhD; pre-professional; lifelong training. • The goal of the WP3 is the outline of a curriculum studiorum that will indicate how to complement, integrate, improve, reform, amend, current programs.

13. WP 4: DESIGN OF SCENARIOS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION • The WP will be run in parallel by the four TASK FORCES. • TFs will address barriers, resources, capacities that influence the implementation process of the curriculum studiorum in the fourth tracks of the legal education and judicial training cycle. • The objective is to develop an assessment tool that will provide any individual country with the building blocks for advancing their judicial training program. • The WP will last 6 months.

14. WP 5: ENSURING QUALITY • The implementation and evaluation of the quality of the project will be defined through a Quality Plan • The Plan determines procedures and tools to assist the partners in their activities (i.e. how to provide data, how to report the activities performed, how to manage internal communication..) and to evaluate the project results • Its final goal is to ensure the achievement of the project results • Quality evaluation will take place both during the project (two intermediate reports) and after its conclusion • Responsible: led by the University of Bologna

15. WP 6: DISSEMINATION • Web site • http://vkc.library.uu.nl/vkc/montaigne/research/ProjectsWiki/Menu%20for%20Justice%20%28JUSTMEN%29.aspx • The web site will be particularly helpful to make available to the public, policy makers, and judicial institutions the outcomes of the project. A report with a mainstreaming proposal in public officials training will be drafted and disseminated among national and European institutions. • Internet-based strategies of dissemination will be privileged.

16. WP 7: EXPLOITATION • MFJ aims at impacting broadly on the production and the development of knowledge in legal field. • Spin off strategies and best practices transfer should be deemed as pivotal instruments in exploitation. • Seminars will be organized locally – by each partner involved into the project – to show the advantages of the curriculum studio rum developed in MFJ and the advantages of the approach MFJ will introduce in legal education and judicial training. In this way, multiplication will work on two targets. The method (approach) and the content (curriculum studiorum).

17. Work Flow

18. Planning 2010 • Meetings Kick off meeting (February) TF meetings (April-May) Virtual (internet based activities of coordination, called virtual meetings, through blogs) • Products Web site Communication policy Governance Grid to collect data Data Set 4 TF reports