Université Paris NanterreUFR de Droit et  Science politiqueCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueCentre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit
Université Paris NanterreUFR de Droit et  Science politiqueCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueCentre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit
Preventive Security and State Structures
Selected French/German Perspectives
vendredi13fév.2026
9h3018h
Atelier / Workshops Passé Nanterre

Programme

 

9:30 : Registration and coffee

9:50 : Introduction and welcome

 

Session 1 - Counter-terrorism : prevention and states of emergency

10:00 : Constituting a Distinct Security Identity : Preventive Counter-Terrorism as a Transformative Policy Field of the EU's Internal and External Security Actorness
Magdalena König, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
and Inés Bolanos Somoano, Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI)

Governing Threats through Ambiguity : The Construction of the Dangerous Person in German Parliamentary Discourse
Reem Ahmed and Isabelle Stephanblome, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

Nothing Urgent About It : Colonial Continuities and the Permanence of Emergency Rule
Marine Guéguin, Leeds Beckett University

Administrative Searches and House Arrests under France's Post-Attacks State of Emergency (2015-2017) : A Sociological and Empirical Approach
Flora Hergon, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris

 

12:00 : Lunch break

 

Session 2 – Surveillance : legal structures and challenges

1:00 : The concept of 'concrete danger' in German public security law : A necessary limit to prevention from the perspective of constitutional rights ?
Jakob Hohnerlein, Max Planck institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

The German 'separation principle' between intelligence agencies and police forces : Origins, character, and challenges
Jakob Mutter, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

Identifying the tipping point from prevention to repression in counter-terrorism activities through network analysis
Antonin Guillard, Université Paris Nanterre, Centre de droit pénal

'To extend the criteria' or the role of home office legal representatives in the extension of administrative counter-terrorism policing
Nicolas Klausser, Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (CESDIP), Guyancourt

3:00 : Coffee break

 

Session 3 – Policing : accountability structures and practices

3:30 : The Administrative Framework of Transnational Operational Police Cooperation in the EU Comparative Insights from France and Germany
Johanna Fink, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?’ The legal actors of the "Etat de Droit" to the test of preventive policing
Vincent Louis, University Paris Nanterre, Centre de Theorie et & Analyse du Droit (CTAD)

Preventing discriminatory police work. An impossible task ?
Sabrina Ellebrecht, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

Meaning and scope of institutlonalisation of police misconduct
Natalia Cabrera-Morales, University of Cambridge / Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (visiting researcher)

5:30 : Wrap-up and next steps

6:00 : Closure

 

 

Contact : Rachel Pougnet at : r.pougnet@csl.mpg.de

Workshop organised by a collaboration between the Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit (CTAD) and the Max Planck Institute – SALTO program
Localisation
Nanterre - Faculté de droit Bâtiment Veil - Salle F352 200 Avenue de la République 92000 Nanterre