The main objective of ILPD is to provide practical legal education to lawyers in the start of their career as judges, prosecutors or lawyers, as well as to already serving legal professionals.

In line with this objective, the courses offered are diverse and offer the students hands on practical knowledge and skills about the law, procedure, institutions as well as the likely documents that have to be drafted in order to initiate the necessary action. Other subjects are intended to provide an interface between the law and other social disciplines, e.g. psychology, philosophy, etc.