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"Mapping Access"

This is the blog post series of the IN-Court Network. We are researchers interested in all things legal and social. In this blog post series, we reflect on issues around access to the fields we work on and experiences in the course of our research projects. By sharing our stories we want to open up a space for discussion with other people already doing or interested in socio-legal research. Join the conversation!

This blog series was first conceptualized in the context of the ComparE project and generously funded by the Deutsche Friedensstiftung
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Cold Opens and Emotion Work: Gaining and Losing Access in International Settings

Cecilia Y. Nordquist

December 1, 2025

Gaining and Losing Access in International Settings Access is viewed as continuous, always ongoing, and pertains to space, time, as well as the …

Access non taken: On the absence of the public in terrorism trials.

Anja Schmidt-Kleinert

December 1, 2025

Since this summer I have been doing court ethnography in two terrorism trials in Germany for two to three days a week, one far-right-terrorism and one …

A general reflection on conditions for conducting courtroom research in Sweden

Nina Törnqvist

October 7, 2025

While securing access to courtrooms in Sweden seems to bear resemblance with the way researchers negotiate and make their way into many other European …

Behind Time: On the Methodological Benefits of Arriving Late to a Hearing

Renata Mustafina

October 7, 2025

There has been important reflection from ethnographers in general (Auyero, 2020) and trial ethnographers in particular (Flower & Klosterkamp, …

Open Justice and Obscured Access: Barriers to Courtroom Research in England and Wales.

Chloe Squires

September 1, 2025

Courtroom research provides rich insights into the operation of the criminal justice system and the administration of the law. I have been attending …

Judicial Temporalities, Infrastructures and Positionality in Courtroom Ethnography

Carlotta Sallach

September 1, 2025

Courtroom ethnography is always done at a particular time and in a particular space. So far, so obvious. Yet, a few years of traveling back and forth …

Open Court, Closed Questions: You Could Feel the Verdict Coming

Mirza Buljubašić

September 1, 2025

Scripts of Silence: Performing Justice in Sarajevo’s Terrorism Trials What Bosnia’s courts show, and what they leave unsaid Open Court, Closed …

Researching Racism in German Courts: Ethnographic Barriers in a System of Denial

Dyana Rezene

July 31, 2025

The defense attorney runs down the hallway in a hurry, she looks like she is running late. She is probably the defense lawyer in the trial that will …

"What do you search? Gold?": Conducting Ethnography in French Terror Trials

Sharon Weill

July 31, 2025

Our multidisciplinary trial ethnography commenced in 2017 with the beginning of the first jihadist terrorism cases at the French Assize Court. …

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