Judicial training in Austria includes extensive training of prospective judges in civil, criminal and procedural law, as well as a wide range of specialised courses on topics such as law and language or protection from violence. In future, training will be supplemented by an obligatory curriculum on the history of the judiciary (“Curriculum Justizgeschichte”). The subjects in this two-module course range from the judiciary in the 19th century to the current challenges faced by, and expectations of, judges, with a particular focus on the National Socialist era.
The author analyses the development of the 2015/2016 Curriculum on the History of the Judiciary and examines its contents as well as its didactic structure. In addition to evaluating the Curriculum, the article also looks ahead and makes proposals for the future set-up of training in judicial history.
Zeitschrift Aufsätze
Georg Grünstäudl
Reforming Training for Austrian Judges. Is a compulsory Teaching unit in Legal History an “extravagant luxury”?
Inhalt
- I. Status quo: creeping reforms and a resounding scandal
- II. A brief description of judges' training in Austria
- III. History of the judiciary in judges' training – a luxury?
- IV. Case study: the Curriculum on the History of the Judiciary in 2015/2016
- 1. The creation of the Curriculum in 2009
- 2. Basic concept and target group
- 3. Winter module with a focus on euthanasia by the National Socialists at the Spiegelgrund clinic
- 4. Spring module with a focus on the Mauthausen Memorial
- V. Outlook: history of the judiciary as a compulsory element of judges' training
- 1. Obligation as knee-jerk legislation?
- 2. However: the history of the judiciary can do more
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Aufsatz vom 14. Juli 2016
© 2016 fhi
ISSN: 1860-5605
Erstveröffentlichung
14. Juli 2016
- Zitiervorschlag Georg Grünstäudl, Reforming Training for Austrian Judges. Is a compulsory Teaching unit in Legal History an “extravagant luxury”? (14. Juli 2016), in forum historiae iuris, https://forhistiur.net2016-07-grunstaudl