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[{"author":"Hugo Wajnsztok","countryCodes":["FR"],"date":"June 14, 2026","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20260614-where-is-the-field-locating-monetary-sanctions-in-french-courts/","summary":"Over the past three decades, monetary sanctions have grown into one of the most significant, and largely overlooked, forms of …","title":"Where Is the Field? Locating Monetary Sanctions in French Courts"},{"author":"Mirza Buljubašić","countryCodes":["BA"],"date":"May 6, 2026","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20260506-footage-and-fractures-the-afterlife-of-open-court-videos-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/","summary":"The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina handles the country’s most sensitive cases, including terrorism, atrocity crimes, and …","title":"Footage and Fractures: The Afterlife of Open Court Videos in Bosnia and Herzegovina"},{"author":"Alessandra Minissale","countryCodes":["IT"],"date":"March 11, 2026","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20260311-time-to-say-goodbye-letting-go-of-access-to-courts-and-prosecution-offices/","summary":"On the final day of my fieldwork in July 2021, I left a remote Italian court and began the long drive back home. A few …","title":"Time to Say Goodbye: Letting Go of Access to Courts and Prosecution Offices"},{"author":"Igal Lavi","countryCodes":["IL"],"date":"March 11, 2026","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20260311-from-court-files-to-ethical-dilemmas-navigating-court-records-in-israel/","summary":"This post examines the distinctive landscape of legal research in Israel, shaped by a high level of digital transparency. …","title":"From Court Files to Ethical Dilemmas: Navigating Court Records in Israel"},{"author":"Aura Mackintosh Bamber","countryCodes":["GB"],"date":"February 5, 2026","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20260205-chance-encounters-challenging-access-to-police-custody/","summary":"When I set out to study the inner workings of police stations in Scotland, the plan seemed clear. I had my methodology, a …","title":"Chance Encounters – Challenging Access to Police Custody"},{"author":"Julia Struppe-Schanda","countryCodes":["AT"],"date":"February 5, 2026","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20260205-entering-the-legal-field-reflections-on-the-role-of-researchers-emotions-in-accessing-criminal/","summary":"Gaining access to a research field is not a single moment, or a technical step to overcome. Rather, it is a continuous …","title":"Entering the Legal Field: Reflections on the Role of Researchers' Emotions in Accessing Criminal Trials"},{"author":"Cecilia Y. Nordquist","countryCodes":["GB","US","SE"],"date":"December 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20251201-cold-opens-and-emotion-work-gaining-and-losing-access-in-international-settings/","summary":"Gaining and Losing Access in International Settings Access is viewed as continuous, always ongoing, and pertains to space, …","title":"Cold Opens and Emotion Work: Gaining and Losing Access in International Settings"},{"author":"Anja Schmidt-Kleinert","countryCodes":["DE"],"date":"December 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20251201-access-non-taken-on-the-absence-of-the-public-in-terrorism-trials/","summary":"Since this summer I have been doing court ethnography in two terrorism trials in Germany for two to three days a week, one …","title":"Access Non Taken: On the Abseence of the Public in Terrorism Trials"},{"author":"Renata Mustafina","countryCodes":["RU"],"date":"October 7, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20251007-behind-time-on-the-methodological-benefits-of-arriving-late-to-a-hearing/","summary":"There has been important reflection from ethnographers in general (Auyero, 2020) and trial ethnographers in particular …","title":"Behind Time: On the Methodological Benefits of Arriving Late to a Hearing"},{"author":"Nina Törnqvist","countryCodes":["SE"],"date":"October 7, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20251007-a-general-reflection-on-conditions-for-conducting-courtroom-research-in-sweden/","summary":"While securing access to courtrooms in Sweden seems to bear resemblance with the way researchers negotiate and make their way …","title":"A General Reflection on Conditions For Conducting Courtroom Research in Sweden"},{"author":"Chloe Squires","countryCodes":["GB"],"date":"September 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250901-open-justice-and-obscured-access-barriers-to-courtroom-research-in-england-and-wales/","summary":"Courtroom research provides rich insights into the operation of the criminal justice system and the administration of the …","title":"Open Justice and Obscured Access: Barriers to Courtoom Research in England and Wales"},{"author":"Carlotta Sallach","countryCodes":["DE"],"date":"September 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250901-judicial-temporalities-infrastructures-and-positionality-in-courtroom-ethnographic/","summary":"Courtroom ethnography is always done at a particular time and in a particular space. So far, so obvious. Yet, a few years of …","title":"Judicial Temporalities, Infrastructures and Positionality in Courtoom Ethnography"},{"author":"Mirza Buljubašić","countryCodes":["BA"],"date":"September 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250901-open-court-closed-questions-you-could-feel-the-verdict-coming/","summary":"Scripts of Silence: Performing Justice in Sarajevo’s Terrorism Trials What Bosnia’s courts show, and what they leave unsaid …","title":"Open Court, Closed Questions: You Could Feel the Verdict Coming"},{"author":"Dyana Rezene","countryCodes":["DE"],"date":"July 31, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250731-researching-racism-in-german-courts-ethnographic-barriers-in-a-system-of-denial/","summary":"The defense attorney runs down the hallway in a hurry, she looks like she is running late. She is probably the defense lawyer …","title":"Researching Racism in German Courts: Ethnographic Barriers in a System of Denial"},{"author":"Sharon Weill","countryCodes":["FR"],"date":"July 31, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250731-what-do-you-search-gold-conducting-ethnography-in-french-terror-trials/","summary":"Our multidisciplinary trial ethnography commenced in 2017 with the beginning of the first jihadist terrorism cases at the …","title":"\"What Do You Search? Gold?\": Conducting Ethnography in French Terror Trials"},{"author":"Sophia Schroeder","countryCodes":["LB","GB"],"date":"July 31, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250731-accessing-judges-as-interviewees-two-different-strategies-one-shared-constant-persistence/","summary":"Accessing Judges as Interviewees – Two Different Strategies, One Shared Constant: Persistence During the early stages of my …","title":"Accessing Judges as Interviewees – Two Different Strategies, One Shared Constant: Persistence"},{"author":"Anja Schmidt-Kleinert","countryCodes":["DE"],"date":"July 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250701-access-to-court-files-in-germany/","summary":"Back in 2018, I was working in the BMBF-funded joint project PANDORA, where we, among other things, were interested in how …","title":"Access to Court Files in Germany"},{"author":"Nina Törnqvist","countryCodes":["SE"],"date":"July 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250701-time-and-time-again-the-role-of-time-and-timing-in-access-negotiation/","summary":"An access process is an access process is an access process. There is something appealing in letting the various elements of …","title":"Time and Time Again – The Role of Time and Timing in Access Negotiations"},{"author":"Revital Madar","countryCodes":["IL"],"date":"July 1, 2025","permalink":"https://www.in-court.org/blog/20250701-access-not-necessarily-denied/","summary":"I had no idea how it would work out, or whether my brother would indeed receive the documents promised by Israel\u0026amp;rsquo;s …","title":"Access (Not-Necessarily) Denied"}]
