806 Challenges of the Knowledge Society. Legal sciences NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF TRAINING FOR ROMANIAN MAGISTRATES VIORICA POPESCU ∗ Abstract In the context in which human resources management has an international dimension, the paper briefly analyzes the process of training for magistrates, both from the perspective of general international principles, as well as from the perspective of national legislation. The importance of permanent development of training programs for magistrates is reflected in the professionalism of magistrates and assumes a certain adequacy to the specific needs of the judicial system. From this perspective, the training for magistrates has a compulsory feature not only in relation with the national or European legislation, but also is a practical need for adjustment to continuous changes that occur in the judicial relations, by legislative reforms, some radical, as a consequence of the dynamic social life. Keywords: judiciary organization, human resources management, training, magistrates, international principles. Introduction In the present socio-technological evolution, it is natural that every category of organization to be concerned that its employees have a serious professional background, with a large cultural horizon, able to use modern techniques and technology. In this context, training and professional development are premises and essential conditions which determine the efficiency of all social work. Training is a complex and lengthy process, preparing each person for the chosen job or occupation, using all existing methods and forms for acquiring basic scientific, technical, general and specialized knowledge and for acquiring the required job skills. In other words, training must embed learning process and work, acting in two directions, namely: • Insuring each employee a high volume of general and specialized knowledge • Training professional skills 1 . By training each organization aims the practical development of the strategic ability, encouragement and eases of efforts to perfect and develop the intellectual capital. The encouragement of the development of an organization can only be achieved by conception and implementation of knowledge management, using personal development plans, as a component of the performance management 2 . In the legal system, the quality of the staff is essential for the achievement of organizational objectives. It is expressed by the fact that the ensemble of requirements necessary for the fulfillment of attributions, jobs stated by the law set a true status of the staff working in justice, but in the same time the exercise of professional attributions shapes the idea of mission in the system 3 . In this context, the present study aims the research of the means of professional training for magistrates, referring to the principles and the national and international framework. Being an area of research provided for by the legislator, the references to the literature are minimal, prevail the analysis of the normative texts. My own contribution to this study, besides the synthetic analysis of the legislative framework, consists of the indication of the vulnerabilities of the ∗ Assistant Lecturer, Ph. D. candidate, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, University of Pitesti (email: viorica_r30@yahoo.com). 1 Cornescu Viorel, Mihăilescu I., Stanciu S, Managementul organizaţiei, (Bucharest: All Beck, 2009), p. 206. 2 Armstrong Michael, Managementul resurselor umane. Manual de practică, (Bucharest: Codecs, 2003), p. 40. 3 Barac Lidia, Management judiciar, (Bucharest: Hamangiu, 2009), p. 134.