A group of law professors from the University of Murcia, coordinated by Jorge Piernas López, professor in the area of ​​International Public Law and International Relations, has received funding from the European Commission to train Spanish and Irish judges in European Union Law, specifically in matters of competition law and State aid.
The funded project, called NatJEUSAL, in addition to strengthening the training of national judges in European Union law, aims to foster mutual trust and cooperation among them, as well as contribute to the development and dissemination of best practices and tools for address complex national and cross-border issues.
It will include the holding of face-to-face seminars in Spain, Italy and Germany.
The training that will take place in Spain will take place in the Faculty of Law of the University of Murcia on May 23 and 24, 2019. This seminar, which is aimed at Spanish and Irish judges, will include interactive workshops and round tables They will address the role of national judges in the application of the state aid law.
In addition to the group of professors of the University of Murcia, lawyers and magistrates of the National High Court and the Supreme Court of Ireland will participate in the training of this training.
Subsequently, two other face-to-face seminars will be held at the universities of Padua (Italy) and WĂĽrzburg (Germany).
The project also foresees the preparation of teaching materials and the holding of a final conference, in June 2020, at the University of Padua, in which the speakers of the three seminars and experts of the European Commission will participate.
The funding granted comes from the call 'Training of National Judges in EU Competition Law.
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The participation of the University of Murcia in this call has been made in the framework of a consortium of universities in Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Germany and Lithuania, led by the University of Padua.
Source: Universidad de Murcia