Government lawyers and the training of senior civil servants : maintaining law at the heart of the French state

Emilie Biland (1) , Rachel Vanneuville (2)

1 Département de science politique
2 TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique

"To assess the influence of law and jurists in the conduct of contemporary French state, this article examines the role of the Council of State at ENA (École Nationale d'Administration), the main school for top civil servants. Although the study reveals the decreasing part of law in the bureaucratic capital over the past fifty years, it also shows how government lawyers have resisted this downsizing process. (...)"

Mots clés: École Nationale d'Administration; top civil servants; law; France

Domaines: Science politique

Emilie Biland, Rachel Vanneuville. Government lawyers and the training of senior civil servants : maintaining law at the heart of the French state. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 2013, 19 (1), pp.29-54. ⟨10.1080/09695958.2013.771121⟩. ⟨halshs-00813927⟩