Abstract
In 2009 the Darrois Commission made recommendations to reform legal education in France. Their tasks had been to formulate “the outlines for a profound reform of the profession of attorney” and to make recommendations on the reform of professional structures, the governance of the profession and access to law and legal aid. In this paper we analyse the current system of legal education and training in France and compare it with the position in England and Wales. This includes an examination of the regulation of legal professionals. We set these calls for reform in the context of current radical changes to higher education in France and the current regulatory context in England and Wales. The Darrois Commission concludes that the French legal profession is fragmented. It makes a number of recommendations including the merger of avoués and IP counsel; regulation of some currently unregulated legal services and the creation of professional schools of law. We contrast this situation with reform in England and Wales where there are approved regulators for eight legal professions. If anything, the legal profession in England and Wales is set to fragment further as regulation becomes more diffuse.
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