Spanish Legal Education and Bologna Plan
Jun 24th, 2008 by admin
Spain is a part of the European Union and that’s why it also has to adopt Bologna Plan by 2010.
Bologna Plan is rather complicated process which concerns all spheres of education and legal education is not am exception. The Bologna Plan originates from 1999 when Ministers of Education and Science of countries-members of the EU gathered in order to begin the grand reform for standardization and unification of all educational systems of countries-members of the EU.
This plan presupposes two main goals: first one – is to create common educational environment and mutual recognition of university and college degrees; second goal is to create such universities which can be competitive with the top America universities.
But change of legal education is very difficult and not only because of changes of educational methods, but also because of different character of legal systems.
In Spain this change seems almost impossible, because legal education in this country is so far from modern realities of legal sphere. Such situation is determined by 40 years-long dictatorship of Franco. During that period legal education was closed for new achievements, innovations, ideas, approaches etc. Of course, after Franco’s death the situation improved a little, but these improvements are tiny. The department of legal education still remains backward.
So, it is obvious that there will be much resistance to the introduction of bologna Plan in legal education in Spain, but nevertheless a lot of legal specialists and professor move with time and will give necessary support to the process of modernization.