The idea of the article is to describe Polish interwar ideas of a desired religious system of relationships between the organisation of the studies of law and an appropriate level of training for persons who prepare for and those who already perform the judicial service. Determining convictions concerning competences, which constitute the concept of the appropriate preparation, as well as stating which of the competences and to what extent should, according to the participants of the debate, be obtained as a part of university education were considered essential.In the paper the specifics of a widely understood social context of discussion (an increasing supply of lawyers, a “shallow labour market”, an instrumental employment relationship o...