Coming Soon Terror on Trial: An Ethnography of French Courts

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Terror on Trial: An Ethnography of French Courts

Edited by Sharon Weill · Denis Salas · Antione Mégie · Christiane Bésnier
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available July 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009333221
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
July 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Grounded in legal ethnomethodology, this book explores terrorism trials in France. Drawing on extensive court ethnography, a multidisciplinary research team examines how terrorism logics are reflected, represented, and negotiated within criminal proceedings. Based on hundreds of hearing days-ranging from small terrorism criminal cases to the so-called 'trials for history', commonly known as the 'Charlie Hebdo' and the 'Bataclan' trials-this study offers a nuanced, bottom-up perspective on the role of courts.

Through courtroom immersion, close observation of legal performances, and interviews with judicial actors, it investigates how justice is shaped in practice. Identifying three generations of trials, the book provides original insights into the evolving role of courts in terrorism cases. From an empirical and comparative perspective, it also seeks to make criminal trials more accessible to Anglophone readers, offering a deeper understanding of how terrorism is prosecuted in France, highlighting the role of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and victims.

Table of Contents

Introduction: from the laboratory of the lower courts the Bataclan show trial: three generations of terror trials
1. Courtroom scenes and methodology
2. The trial actors: 'In the name of the French people'
3. The laboratory of the 16th chamber: designing the architecture and experimenting the policy
4. The second generation of Jihadist trials: the slow justice of the French assize court (2017–2019)
5. The 'trials for history': a new paradigm for the prosecution of mass crimes?
6. Final reflections
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