Justine Banégas is a PhD candidate in Political Science under the joint supervision of Sandrine Lefranc (Centre for European Studies – Sciences Po) and Liora Israël (Centre Maurice Halbwachs – EHESS). She holds a dual BA from Sciences Po and University College London and a MPhil in Political Science from Sciences Po’s School of Research. She has been research assistant for the French National Research Agency-funded Proclimex project (Climate trials and expertise. Production, use and reception) in 2025. Since 2025, she is a board member of French Sociological Association's Sociology of Law and Justice Research Group (RT13).

Conférences

• 8th July 2025 : “Demanding Justice, Repairing the Péyi. Toxic Exposures and Antillean Legal Mobilisations from Martinica to the Greater Paris Region”. Invited Talk: "Ethnographing Access to Rights in the Anthropocene" working group session,  5th International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology (ISA), Rabat, Morocco.
   
• 7th May 2025, with Camille Martini : “Mapping climate litigation against companies”, panel 453 - Innovations and changes in judicial activities: operationalising change, in theory and in practice, ACFAS 92th Forum, Montreal, Canada (online).

Bringing together political sociology and socio-legal studies, her research focuses on the interactions between ordinary and special justice and legal mobilisations from different case studies. Her PhD thesis focuses on the application of anti-terrorist discourses and instruments to contemporary mobilisations through a trial-based approach. She previously conducted a research project on reparation demands among anti-chlordecone legal mobilisations.

2024: Sciences Po’s AIRE (Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Workshop) Award for Environmental Student Research 2023-2024.