The School of Specialization for Legal Professions
The School of Specialization for Legal Professions, provided for by art. 16 of Legislative Decree 17 November 1997, n. 398 and regulated by the Miur Decree 21 December 1999, n. 537, is established and activated at the Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences.
The School has the educational objective of developing the set of attitudes and skills characterising the professionalism of ordinary magistrates, lawyers and notaries, also with reference to the growing international integration of legislation and legal systems and to the most modern techniques of source research.
The School has a Board of Directors and a Director , as provided for by art. 5 of the Miur Decree of 21 December 1999, no. 537.
The Board of Directors is composed of twelve members, of which six are university professors of legal and economic disciplines appointed by the Council of the Faculty of Law, two ordinary magistrates, two lawyers and two notaries chosen by the Council of the Faculty of Law, from three lists of four names drawn up respectively by the Superior Council of the Judiciary, the National Council of Lawyers and the National Council of Notaries.
The School has a duration of two years not susceptible to abbreviations and is divided into a common year and the judicial-forensic and notarial addresses of duration of one year. In compliance with the minimum qualifying contents provided for in Annex 1 to the Miur Decree of 21 December 1999, n. 537, the School's Teaching Regulations determine the teaching modules and the timetables, and related training credits, pertaining to the areas and connected scientific-disciplinary sectors, referred to in Annex 1 to art. 7, second paragraph, of Ministerial Decree 537/'99.