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Associate teaching magistrate at the ENM, director of Cahiers de la justice President of the French Association for the History of Justice
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Discipline and Punish in the Twenty-First Century
- By Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2026/1 n° 1)
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Discipline and Punish in the Twenty-First Century
- By Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2026/1 n° 1)
Interview with Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, Counsel for Salah Abdeslam at the Trial of the 13 november 2015 Attacks. Interview conducted on 21 november 2025 at the National School for the Judiciary
Entretien réalisé le 21 novembre 2025 à l’École nationale de la magistrature
- By Denis Salas
- and Marc Servant
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2026/1 n° 1)
The transgender child, a contemporary mystification?
- By Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/4 No 4)
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Interview with Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, Counsel for Salah Abdeslam at the Trial of the 13 november 2015 Attacks. Interview conducted on 21 november 2025 at the National School for the Judiciary
Entretien réalisé le 21 novembre 2025 à l’École nationale de la magistrature
- By Denis Salas
- and Marc Servant
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2026/1 n° 1)
Discipline and Punish in the Twenty-First Century
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2026/1 n° 1)
“It was our secret”. On child sexual abuse
À propos des violences sexuelles sur enfants
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2025/4 n° 4)
Can judicial attire evolve?
- By Alain Lacabarats
- and Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2025/4 n° 4)
Tribute to Henri Leclerc (1934-2024)
- By Jean-Paul Jean,
- Simone Brunet,
- Basile Ader,
- et al.
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2025/3 n° 3)
Judges, Guardians of the Rule of Law
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2025/3 n° 3)
Daneh Anjeer Moghadas or Les graines de figuier sauvage, film by Iranian director and screenwriter Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024
- By Jean-Philippe Pierron
- and Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2025/1 n° 1)
Do We Need a Law to Redefine Rape?
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2025/1 n° 1)
Memory Activists
On the Trials of Hissène Habré (Dakar, 2015) and Three Leaders of the Bashar El Assad Regime (Paris, 2024)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2024/4 n° 4)
A difference response to barbarity: American Mother by Colum MacCann
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2024/2 No 2)
The violence of crime, violence of society.
On Paul Fauconnet’s La Responsabilité. Étude de sociologie (1920), presentation and edition by Sacha Lévy-Bruhl, coll. Quadrige, PUF, 2023
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2024/2 No 2)
A step towards peace? The State of Israel on trial in The Hague
- By Sharon Weill
- and Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2024/1 No 1)
Des victimes en procès. Essai sur la réparation, de Janine Barbot et Nicolas Dodier. Presses de l’École des mines, 2023
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2024/1 No 1)
The place of the victim
- Interview with Marie Dosé,
- Denis Salas,
- conducted by Théo Eberhardt
In Esprit (2024/3 March)
I - Genesis of a profession
- By Sylvie Humbert,
- Denis Salas,
- Soudabeh Marin
- et al.
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2023/4 No 4)
Restorative justice enters the public consciousness
With the film “Je verrai toujours vos visages”. By Jeanne Herry, 2023
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2023/2 No 2)
Alternatives to prison are not preferential treatment
- Entretien avec Delphine Boesel,
- Denis Salas
- and Julien Ortin
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2023/2 No 2)
Interview with Claire Josserand-Schmidt, lawyer at the Paris Bar
- Entretien avec Claire Josserand-Schmidt,
- Denis Salas
- and Christiane Besnier
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2023/1 N° 1)
Mireille Delmas-Marty, or law as a work of art
In Esprit (2022/11 November)
Mémoires d’un juge trop indépendant (Renaud Van Ruymbeke, Taillandier, 2021)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2022/2 No 2)
“A poet at the Palais de Justice.” About Un lieu de justice (A place of justice), Jean-Paul Honoré (Arléa, 2021)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2022/1 No 1)
The values of magistrates are those of their office
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2022/1 No 1)
“Our love was violence without a name”
Regarding Le Consentement, Vanessa Springora, Grasset, 2020
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/4 No 4)
Introduction
The transgender child, a contemporary mystification?
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/4 No 4)
France and the United States, two responses to terrorism
- By Denis Salas
- and Sharon Weill
In Études (2021/12 December)
Introduction
The criminal madness between responsibility and irresponsibility
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/3 No 3)
Introduction
A jurisdiction of the word
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/2 No 2)
Interview with national anti-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard and assistant prosecutor Jean-Michel Bourles
- By Jean-François Revel,
- Jean-Michel Bourles,
- Interview conducted by Antoine Mégie,
- et al.
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/2 No 2)
Round table with the defence lawyers
- By Hugo Levy,
- David Apelbaum,
- Margot Pugliese,
- et al.
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/2 No 2)
Interview with the presiding judge Régis de Jorna
- By Régis de Jorna,
- Interview conducted by Antoine Mégie,
- Pauline Jarroux,
- et al.
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/2 No 2)
The role of the anti-terrorist investigating judge (interview with Emmanuelle Robinson)
- By Emmanuelle Robinson,
- Interview conducted by Antoine Mégie,
- Pauline Jarroux,
- et al.
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/2 No 2)
Ten years later. . .
- Editor-in-Chief Jean-Louis Gillet,
- Scientific Director Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/1 No 1)
Why so much hatred for judges? On Impossible (Impossibile), a novel by Erri De Luca, Gallimard, 2019 (trans. D. Valin)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2021/1 No 1)
Reading L’État de siège today
In Cités (2021/1 No 85)
Lawyers’ involvement in democratic justice
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2020/3 No 3)
30. Toward a world (almost) without prisons?
In Études (2020/13 Special issue)
“The dark night of slavery closed in upon me . . .” Concluding remarks
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2020/2 No 2)
A work of memory in construction
- By Denis Salas
- and Olivier Pluen
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2020/2 No 2)
Introduction
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2020/1 No 1)
Juge, an account by Marcel Lemonde
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2020/1 No 1)
“Transitional Justice” and the Republic of the Year III
- By Loris Chavanette,
- Hervé Leuwers,
- Denis Salas
- et al.
In Annales hist. de la Rév française (2019/4 No 398)
The environmental cause
Law, philosophy, arts
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2019/3 No 3)
When the city devours its children: On “Le choix de Bilal,” Anne-Sophie de Lamarzelle, L’Astre Bleu, 2018
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2019/2 No 2)
The challenges of digital justice
Data, screens, and predictions
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2019/2 No 2)
Should Céline’s pamphlets be republished?
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2019/1 No 1)
The appeal and fear of images
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2019/1 No 1)
Justice in the twenty-first century: The challenge of images
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2019/1 No 1)
On Radicaliser la justice. Projet pour la démocratie by Manuela Cadelli, Samsa, Brussels, 2018
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2018/4 No 4)
Looking back on the Audin case
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2018/4 No 4)
Secularism: The swerve into securitarianism
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2018/3 No 3)
Who is punishment for? What do victims expect from it?
- By Denis Salas,
- Olivia Mons,
- Interview conducted by Martin de Lalaubie,
- et al.
In Projet (2018/4 No 365)
“Éloge des gouttières”: On L'insulte, a Lebanese film by Ziad Doueiri (2017)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2018/2 No 2)
The figure of the abused child, or “atrophy of the child by night”
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2018/1 No 1)
What is the good of a judge in a psychiatric hospital? On Douze jours, a film by Raymond Depardon
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2018/1 No 1)
Introduction
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2017/4 No 4)
Justice at the dawn of a new presidential term
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2017/3 No 3)
Voir du pays, a film by D. and M. Coulin (2015)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2016/4 No 4)
“Now he knows I haven’t forgotten what he made me suffer”: On Cécile B.’s book Le petit vélo blanc
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2016/4 No 4)
The Dangerous Trivialization of the State of Emergency
In Études (2016/3 March)
Ian McEwan, The Children Act Jonathan Cape, 2014
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2016/1 No 1)
Pierre Cavellat: Imagination in the courtroom, Musée de Morlaix (exhibition from June 13 to October 11, 2015)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2015/4 No 4)
Domestic terrorism: A challenge for restorative justice
- By Lode Walgrave,
- followed by a debate with Denis Salas
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2015/3 No 3)
Democratic transition in the courtroom: Toward restorative justice?
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2015/3 No 3)
A tribute to Louis Joinet, a servant of transitional justice
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2015/3 No 3)
Timbuktu (a film by Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2015/2 No 2)
Should allegories be banned from the courthouse?
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2015/1 No 1)
Le procès de Viviane Amsalem, a French-Israeli film by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, 2014
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2014/4 No 4)
Opinions. Reforming Justice to Fight Populism
In Esprit (2014/7 July)
Dying in Democratic Societies
In Études (2014/6 June)
The Selfish Giant, a film by Clio Barnard (2013)
In Les Cahiers de la Justice (2014/2 No 2)
Towards a Criminal Policy of the Left?
In Études (2013/10 Volume 419)
Security and Justice: Is There a Political Turning Point?
In Esprit (2012/12 December)
Imaginary Punishment
On the Subject of Catherine Rechard's Déménagement
In Esprit (2012/6 June)
Albert Camus: The Intransigent Humanist
In Études (2012/1 Volume 416)
What We Mean by to Punish
In Études (2011/3 Volume 414)
The Revolt of the Magistrates
In Esprit (2011/3 March April)
Public Prosecutors in Europe: Between Judicial Independence and Criminal Policies
In Droit et société (2010/1 No 74)
Does the Judge for Children Still Have Authority?
- By Denis Salas
- and Thierry Baranger
In Adolescence (2009/2 27)
Criminal Law Reform: After Five Years, a Turning Point?
In Études (2009/10 Volume 411)
The New Era of Judicial Error
In Revue française d’administration publique (2008/1 No 125)
Legal and Administrative Culture
- By Jean-Paul Jean
- and Denis Salas
In Revue française d’administration publique (2008/1 No 125)
Safety Situation or the Rule of Law?
The French Hesitation
In Études (2008/4 Volume 408)
Victims, Rather than the Law
- By Antoine Garapon
- and Denis Salas
In Esprit (2007/11 November)
The Outreau Affair or the Mirror of an Era
In Le Débat (2007/1 No 143)
The Victimization-Criminalization Pair
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2006/2 No 2)
Justice after Outreau: A Panel Discussion with Jean Danet, Harold Epineuse, Daniel Ludet, and Denis Salas
- By Jean Danet,
- Harold Epineuse,
- Daniel Ludet,
- et al.
In Esprit (2006/5 May)
Changes in the Criminal Economy
The Weight of Public Opinion in the Media
- By Denis Salas
- and Lise Mingasson
In Informations sociales (2005/7 No 127)