Co-ordinations with Legislature or Parliament, the Judiciary and Government institutions in Malta and abroad for the purpose of promoting archival and IT research on the history of law-making, the tapping of the founts of legislative enactments in view of their rehabilitation and modernisation, and thus the tracing of the relevant foundations of the law. In recent years, the local Parliament or Legislature has shown great interest in collaborating with the Unit of Legal History and Research for the purpose of publishing the Speakers’ Rulings from the time of Malta’s first Responsible Government.
Benefits from Erasmus mobility programmes with foreign Universities for the purpose of expanding research and writing on legal history and related themes, particularly with Universities in countries the laws of which provide bases and models for local legislation over the years and centuries. The Department intends to enable students and academics to tour Universities in the European Union, Europe and beyond to tap archival information and rare books on legal history and related subjects. For instance, Universities in Sicily (e.g. Palermo, Messina, etc) have archives and libraries that encompass legal manuscripts and documents on the state of the law in Sicily when Malta formed constitutionally and juridically part of the domain of Sicily in the Middle Age and Early Modern Times.
Peered or refereed publications by well-known printers in Malta and abroad. The Department is planning to transcribe and publish documents of inestimable value that have conserved in written form the pragmatics and constitutions of Malta under the Knights Hospitallers and other manuscripts that contain legal institutions that have been awaiting study and publication for years on end. The Department is also planning to uncover manuscripts which have put on record important court and tribunal judgments from 1530 to 1850 but have not been consulted since they were shelved in their archives. The Department will seek to promote seriously the study of Latin, if need be, in a compulsory way, so that such abundant case-law will be unearthed and made know with relevance to present-day court judgments and tribunal pronouncements.
Internship and Interdisciplinary programmes with other Faculties within the University of Malta and other Universities abroad, and with public and private entities that have an interest in legal history and provide training for students specialising in the field of legal history and related subjects. The Department will academically address such potential bodies and in so doing promote legal research and writing on legal history and above-mentioned subjects that may be commissioned by them.