The current phase of the Judiciary School starts with the reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary of 1995 according to which the training of judges, that previously belonged to the Ministry of Justice, it is transferred to CGPJ. The initial training is implemented for the first time at Barcelona’s headquarters with the year 48, in February 1997.

Ever since, the subsequent years are integrated exclusively by judges, since the public prosecutors continue their process of training in the old headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, located in the University City of Madrid, under the name of Judiciary Studies Centre (CEJ), where it is also done the training for the court secretary, for the lawyers of the State, and other judiciary national entities managed by the government.

At the end of the XIX century there were different governmental projects that considered the creation of a Judiciary School as a guaranty of a good service for the citizens. The Decree of September the 22nd of 1836 created the “Assessing Committee of magistrates and judges”. “in order to prepare the judiciary organisation when it will be necessary to do it about the principle of immobility”. Fernando de los Ríos, minister of justice in the beginning of the Second Republic, included the creation of the EJ in his programme of government.

The effective creation of the Judiciary School did not take place until the Law of April the 26th 1944. The first director, in 1947, was Plaza Navarro, who evaluated it as “a careful reaction against joining the career through a contest”. In the exposition of the regulation’s motives that created it, it is explained that “the opposition can be used to restrain the favour’s excesses, but it is not enough to guaranty the whole training of the future owners for a function that demands proved virtues”.

In its primitive configuration the EJ was an entity of the Ministry of Justice, that managed 47 graduation dates of judges (between 1947 and 1996), in a training shared with the Public Prosecutors. From 1997 starts the activity of the EJ in the heart of the CGJP, with the date of graduation number 48, until the current one. In this period the directors have been Jesús Corbal, Carlos Gómez Martínez, José Francisco Valls Gombau, Nuria Bassols and Pascual Ortuño.