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COULD YOUR JUDGE PASS THE TEST?

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NEW YORK TIMES: Judges as Politicians SeriesRendering Justice, With One Eye on Re-election"Contrast (the) distinctively American method of selecting judges with the path to the bench of Jean-Marc Baissus, a judge on the Tribunal de Grand Instance, a district court, in Toulouse, France. He still recalls the four-day written test he had to pass in 1984 to enter the 27-month training program at the École Nationale de la Magistrature, the elite academy in Bordeaux that trains judges in France. ?It gives you nightmares for years afterwards,? Judge Baissus said of the test, which is open to people who already have a law degree, and the oral examinations that followed it. In some years, as few as 5 percent of the applicants survive. ?You come out of this completely shattered,? Judge Baissus said...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on May 26, 2008 (boomark / email).