Outcome 2.3.2
“SoM transformed into a source of information regarding EU law and European human rights legislation as well as capacity-building for research and publication”.
This outcome stipulates that the School of Magistrates, as the only institution authorized by the Constitution and the law to provide training for candidate judges/prosecutors, will expand its activity in research, study and publication. This outcome is in line with the objective and achieves its “best”: ensures progress towards European practices and quality in the legal field.
Although the objective requires that this be achieved through training, this outcome goes beyond the objective, expanding the ways in which the School will achieve this. This expansion is in line with the stipulation made by the Strategy of the School of Magistrates, where an important place is occupied by the strengthening of its capacities as an institution that not only trains, but comes up with genuine research/scientific products on important issues of the law. The first element that has been identified where this re-design of the School will have to yield results is the European legislation and the one on human rights and their meeting points with the Albanian law.
It is important to carry out studies and publications, with practical values for the justice system in Albania, related to the approach of international principles and international law as a whole, with their regulation and interpretation according to Albanian law. So far, the main works in this field are mainly of an academic nature. The contribution that the School of Magistrates will have to give will have a more practical character, which will orient the users of the law to certain fields, through the study and occasional, special products, thus enabling, in the long-term, a sustainable development of law.
This result requires the School to strengthen its capacities in this regard, including the strengthening of its organizational capacities to establish an appropriate structure to carry out this activity, and, at the same time, the expansion and development of human resources as regards the expertise on which this research work and its products will be based.
Although we explained the required outcome, when we look at the measures provided for in the SND II Action Plan, a total of two measures that will be analyzed below, we are not convinced that they are sufficient to fulfill the outcome, as it does not seem that they are focused on improving human resources and infrastructure/logistics, which are of fundamental importance to the conduct of this activity.
Conclusion: This result exceeds the objective because the School’s activity in the training area does not suffice for its fulfilment – a genuine study and publication activity is required. Also, the measures envisaged for the fulfillment of the outcome are not sufficient, as they have left out of focus the necessary elements for the realization of the study and publication, such as human and infrastructural resources and logistics, without which the fulfillment of the outcome is almost impossible.