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#MENS1629317AOrder setting the program and modalities for the entrance exam to regional lawyer training centers

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This French regulation outlines the entrance exam requirements for regional professional lawyer training centers. It specifies the exam schedule, eligibility criteria, and the application process. Candidates need to complete specific legal coursework and pass both written and oral exams to qualify for admission.

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Key Changes

  • Defines a detailed program for the lawyer training entrance exam
  • Sets annual schedules for written and oral exams
  • Specifies eligibility based on legal education credits

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Conduct the entrance exam to regional lawyer training centers once per year, with written eligibility exams beginning September 1st (or first business day after) and oral admission exams beginning November 2nd (or first business day after)

Universities designated to organize the exam, under responsibility of their president
operational
high

Register candidates for the exam before December 31st of the year preceding the exam at a single chosen university; candidates may only sit the exam if they have obtained 60 credits of a master's degree in law or equivalent qualification during the academic year

Universities organizing the exam
operational
high

Require registration dossiers to contain: proof of identity, nationality, domicile with valid email address; proof of obtaining 60 master's credits or equivalent; and a form specifying chosen exam subjects

Universities organizing the exam
operational
high

Maintain confidentiality obligations for all national commission members and external personnel; prohibit commission members from teaching in preparatory formations for this exam or serving as examiners in the year subjects are developed

National commission members and external personnel working with the commission
prohibition
high

Prohibit examiners and jury members from simultaneously teaching in public or private preparatory formations for this exam during the academic year the exam is organized and the preceding academic year

Examiners and jury members
prohibition

Affected Parties

Law students seeking admission to lawyer training centersUniversities organizing the exams

Tags

lawyer training,exam requirements,legal education