Jean-Michel DARROIS - One or Many Legal Professions? What Does the Future Hold?

Pouvoirs n°140 - janvier 2012 - p.5-14

Reflecting about the future of legal professions offers us a good example of the kind of difficulties any project of reform is confronted with in France. While everybody acknowledges the necessity to adapt our legal system to a globalized economic world undergoing radical transformation, it is extremely difficult, or even impossible, to meet such a unanimous opinion when the time has come to act. Being deeply attached to the rule of civil law, France seems reluctant to accept the changes that would allow it to regain her former position within the world legal community. Too busy confronting each other in order to protect what they see as impregnable fortresses, the different legal professions remain blind to the changes that have first imposed on the economic world the influence of Anglo-Saxon law and its methods, and will tomorrow impose the influence from Asia. Résumé

Référence électonique : Jean-Michel DARROIS, "One or Many Legal Professions? What Does the Future Hold?", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°140, 2012, p.5-14. Consulté le 02-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/One-or-Many-Legal-Professions-What.html