Reida Guenfoud is an Algerian lawyer born in Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1945. Guenfoud holds a Maîtrise en droit from the University of Paris I and is documented as a partner of Resident Attorneys.
Background
Reida Guenfoud was born on 6 August 1945 in Tlemcen, a historic city in north-western Algeria near the border with Morocco. Tlemcen is the second-largest city in north-western Algeria after Oran and the capital of Tlemcen Province.
The city has a long history as a regional centre of trade and learning. It flourished in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries as the capital of the Zayyanid dynasty, a Muslim Berber dynasty, and its medieval mosques and madrasas remain prominent features of the city. The Ottomans annexed it to the Regency of Algiers in 1555, and French occupation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought major urban renovations that reshaped the city.
The birth took place during the period of French Algeria, the colonial territory under French rule that lasted until independence in 1962.
Education
Guenfoud's documented higher education is a Maîtrise en droit from the University of Paris I, completed in 1977. The maîtrise is a French university degree at master's level.
The University of Paris I was created in 1970, when the Edgar Faure Act divided the University of Paris, known as the Sorbonne, into several new universities. Its law school, the Panthéon-Sorbonne University School of Law, traces its lineage to the Faculty of Law of Paris, which dated back to the twelfth century.
Career
The profile describes Guenfoud as working as a partner of Resident Attorneys.
Admission to the legal profession in Algeria is regulated by the Ministry of Justice, which requires applicants to be of Algerian nationality and to hold a bachelor's degree in law or an equivalent qualification.
