23 October 2026
“Police Violence Is Deeply Entrenched in France”
France has been gripped by protests and violence for weeks. One of our authors witnessed last Saturday’s demonstrations firsthand. Carina Bury is a German-French legal scholar who completed her PhD in Hamburg and teaches at the Universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris Nanterre. We spoke with her about the ongoing protests, the response of the justice system, and the role of the police in French society. Continue reading >>
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28 July 2021
Lessons from the French Citizens’ Climate Convention
On July 6, the French Prime Minister announced that the government was abandoning the bill to enshrine in the Constitution the preservation of the environment. He invoked the Senate's inertia to justify renouncing the bill, which needed to be adopted in the same terms by the two houses of parliament. The climate referendum that had been announced by the President of the Republic in December 2020 was thus abandoned. The decision was not a surprise, as many doubted the political feasibility or the actual willingness to implement it. Continue reading >>
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