Justine Banégas

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 contemporary legislative developments related to public order offences in France and the United Kingdom and their impact on legal prosecutions involving activists. She previously conducted a research project on reparation demands among anti-chlordecone legal mobilisations.

The judicial making of public order: judges and juries in the face of direct action mobilisations in France and the United Kingdom.

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

Justine Banégas (2025). “Has one ever seen such thing as restorative justice in Martinica?” Lessons on repair and redress from French Martinican anti-chlordecone legal mobilisations. Sociétés politiques comparées, 65 : 43-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/spc-19270