About me
Being the daughter of parents, both working as executives in the public service, I was immersed from a young age into the administrative culture of public service and consideration of the general interest. As a student, I was predisposed to enter this world, as an “administrative heritage” that my parents would have passed on to me. After obtaining a master's degree in Law and Practice of public litigation and a diploma in Administrative Litigation the year after, I confidently decided to prepare for the very selective exam of administrative judge. In 2010, while waiting to reach the minimum age required to pass this exam, I accepted to register for the entrance exam of the Center for vocational training of the legal profession, like a trial run, with a certain degree of timidity. Successful trial with no regrets. The child of civil servants I was thus had abandoned trying to preserve the general interest for safeguarding and defending individual interests… before the administration.
Indeed, we are all users of the administration. We all have at least once expressed our anger mixed with incomprehension when facing regulations that we consider unjust. And until very recently, the only way not to suffer the consequences of an unpleasant decision was to take it to court and have it annulled by the administrative judge.
However, law does not adapt to particular cases which are too specific to be taken into account, unless they are ruled in “equity”, that is to say beyond acts and regulations.In this moment, I became aware of the limits of justice, whether administrative or judicial, and turned towards another method of dispute resolution: mediation, and more specifically administrative mediation.
For each and every one of us caught in the nets of an inextricable situation, mediation has the genuine power to ease the law. I would go even further and say that mediation has the power, other than the letter of the law, to become a compensation for the defects of the law or judgment, and to give satisfaction to the citizen.
Therefore, I followed a Mediator professional training in 2020. Becoming a mediator for me, who was attracted to the function of administrative judge for some time, is an opportunity to deliver justice differently, especially by moving away from the binary nature of administrative litigation (annulment / dismissal) and by balancing the law with the notion of "equity".