Training a European iurist: law faculties' curricula, the European Parliament resolution on the approximation of the civil and commercial law of the Member States 2001 and Bologna 1999 1

Abstract

Two relevant official European documents have been passed in relation to the training of the jurist in Europe and the development of related professions: the Bologna 1999 Declaration and the European Parliament Resolution 2001, which should be co‐ordinated. The first one created an incentive for the creation of comparable university curricula throughout Europe and the second one invited European law faculties to introduce European Private Law matters into their law curricula. In consequence, European law faculties now have the goal to train Pan‐European private law iurists, through developing their skills and knowledge to allow them to work everywhere in Europe. This necessarily leads to the reform of paedagogical techniques and the alteration of the curricula, including the important contents of ius commune and iur communitatis.