The "Luis del Castillo" Permanent Seminar on International Justice was born within the International Criminal Bar Association with the aim of becoming an instrument of training, research, intellectual debate and exchange of ideas of the international legal community on issues referred to international justice.
Its first edition, in Catalonia, was dedicated to the activation of the future International Master in International Criminal Justice that will begin in 2018, bringing together the coordinators of the different modules in the work to the design of contents, harmonization of the techniques of virtualized teaching, and debate on legal training strategies of international legal actors. The assistants of this meetings were judges, prosecutors and staff of the International Criminal Court and other international courts, lawyers of the Bar Association of the ICC, researchers and teachers from different universities and research centers, and technical staff of International Organizations.
The event was divided in three days in which were conducted the Institutional Act of Inauguration of the Seminar at the Hall of plenary sessions of the City Council of Tarragona, with the mayor, Mr. Josep Fèlix Ballesteros, the General Presentation of the Master of International Criminal Justice: its Mission, Vision, Objectives, teaching methodologies, academic structure, program, contents and dynamics of the subjects; and the Presentation of the content proposals and teachers of the subjects of the Master at the University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona and the Illustious Bar Association of Tarragona - ICAT.
The event counted with the attendace of Mr. Fabricio Guariglia, Mr. Esteban Peralta Losilla of the ICC Mr. Santiago Castellà, Academic Director of the Master, Honorary President of the ICB Mr. Luis Del Castillo Aragón, President Mr. Blas J. Imbroda, Secretary General Mrs. Erika Torregrossa, Mrs. Dignité Bwiza coordinator for Africa for the ICB, Mr. Jaume Antich, Mr. Pierre A. Kopp, attached to the presidency of the ICB, Mr. Kenneth Gallant, head of studies of the master, Mr. Daniel Mekonnen, Mrs. Luz Elena Mira, Mrs. Svetlana Paramonova and Mr. Luis Miguel Ojeda Ruiz.