A joint study day with the Chair in Comparative Legal Studies and the Internationalization of Law, focusing on a historical typology and community of values.
Terrorism is a highly topical issue, mobilizing not only political actors, but also the various fields of social science, to understand the meanings attributed to it and the practices it takes on. The historical and legal aspects of terrorism are the subject of the theoretical reflection undertaken during the course of the day by the chairs of Professors Mireille Delmas-Marty (Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law) and Henry Laurens (History of the Contemporary Arab World), who invite jurists and historians to take part in the debate. The historical section will attempt a historical typology of terrorism, based on the construction of nation-states and forms of political protest. The aim is to identify the shifts and diversity of forms of political violence over time.
In the legal section, the aim is to examine current definitions of terrorism from a critical perspective, drawing on various branches of domestic and international law. The aim is to identify transformations, from criminal repression to the war on terrorism, in the light of the emergence of a global community of values.
