During the symposium, the students from the
faculty were given an overview of the history of judges and lawyers in the
administration of justice from the Middles Ages to the present day. The
speakers who took part in the symposium included national and international
experts such as Eugeni Gay, a judge on the Spanish Constitutional Court, and
Thomas Gergen, from the Universität des Saarlandes and the Max Planck Institute for European History of Law in
Germany.

The International Society for the History of
the Law Profession (SIHPA), which was founded in 1987 by Professor Jean-Louis
Gazzaniga, was active through its publications until 1998, and in 1991 it
organized the first international symposium, which also took place in Barcelona
with collaboration from the Bar Association of Barcelona. In 2010, the society
resumed its activities and once again began to organize international symposia
on various aspects of the history of law.

Present at the opening ceremony of this year's
symposium, which was hosted by the UIC, were Pedro Yúfera, the dean of the Bar
Association of Barcelona; Dr. Javier Junceda, the dean of the UIC Faculty of
Legal and Political Sciences; Josep Cruanyes, the president of the Catalan
Society of Legal Studies; and Jean-Luc Gaineton, the dean and president of
SIHPA. The closing ceremony took place on Saturday, 15 December 2012, and
included a speech by Eugeni Gay, a judge on the Spanish Constitutional Court.