The National School of the Judiciary ("ESDI") is an educational institution based in Thessaloniki. It was established on the basis of Law no. 2236/1994, as subsequently amended (Law 3689/2008 and Law 3910/2011) and is considered a productive school of the Ministry of Justice with the task of selecting, educating and training those intended to be appointed to positions of judicial officers of the Council of State, the Court of Auditors, the administrative, civil and criminal courts and the prosecutors of the public prosecutor's offices, as well as the continuous training of judicial officers already serving. It started operating in 1995 and the course lasts for one year.
The School's mission is to inspire in its students and trainee judges and prosecutors a high spirit and independence of opinion, to build morale, to strengthen
faith in the principles of democracy and freedom, and to convey representations of the social and economic life of the country, to highlight the European and international dimension of the law, to develop critical faculties in approaching not only law but also the phenomena of society in general, to teach legal discourse, both written and spoken, to open up horizons for intellectual cultivation and contact with the arts and culture. The aim of judicial training is to create modern judges and prosecutors who are able to meet the challenges of the times, which require a broad horizon of knowledge and a broad range of skills.
ESDI has two libraries, Library 1, located on the first floor of the School, and Library 2, located in the basement. The total number of books in the two libraries exceeds 6,000 copies.