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Sharon Weill is an Associate Professor at The American University of Paris, directing the Justice Lab. She concurrently serves as a Research Associate at Sorbonne University’s Centre for Comparative Law & the Internationalization of Law and teaches at Sciences Po Paris and Paris II University. Her academic career includes postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society (2015–2016) and leadership roles in multidisciplinary projects funded by CNRS/Ministry of Justice and Swiss National Science Foundation. She has held judicial roles, including judge in France’s Asylum Court (2019–2022) and member of the French National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (2018–2021).
Her research focuses on law’s role in conflicts, courts’ adjudication of terrorism cases, and transitional justice. Key projects include empirical studies of French terrorism courts (since 2017) and asylum courts (2022 grant), as well as investigations into Senegal’s hybrid courts, Guantanamo military commissions, and Israeli military courts in Palestinian territories. She co-edited Prosecuting the President - The Trial of Hissène Habré (2020) and authored The Role of National Courts in Applying International Humanitarian Law (2014). Her forthcoming book Terror on Trial: An Ethnography of French Courts (Cambridge University Press) examines judicial responses to terrorism.
Recent activities include co-organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Local courts as transnational actors’ (Onati Institute, 2024) and lecturing internationally, including at the Siracusa International Institute (2023). Her research integrates legal doctrine with socio-political approaches, emphasizing ethnographic fieldwork in courts and policy institutions.
Grants and collaborations include CNRS-funded research on Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (2024 fieldwork) and cross-university teams analyzing French asylum courts. She actively engages with policy through reports for the UN Special Rapporteur, FIDH, and French Ministry of Justice, contributing to debates on counter-terrorism, human rights, and judicial accountability.
Labs/Teams: Co-director of the Justice Lab (AUP), member of the ERC ‘Security in Transition’ project (LSE), and collaborator with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law.
