Lower national courts are increasingly asked to perform a transnational role, being directly involved in major geopolitical issues such as conflicts, migration, and transnational terrorism. Based on an ethnography of French criminal courts, this article aims to examine this emerging role of national lower courts as transnationalized players. Through an examination of terrorism prosecutions in France and the positions of the different judicial actors, it is argued that lower criminal courts, acting within a transnational context, can offer more robust resistance to states’ policies than supreme courts. This is because of the routine and the banality of their function and the direct interaction with the accused persons coupled with the judges’ own professional ethos and notion of judicial independence. Unlike supreme courts, whose role is more visible, and thus under the constant scrutiny of the political branches of the state, lower courts can operate in a more distant, independent space.

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跨国圣战与刑事法官的作用：法国法院的人种志

人们越来越要求下级国家法院履行跨国职责，直接参与诸如冲突，移民和跨国恐怖主义等重大地缘政治问题。基于法国刑事法院的民族志，本文旨在研究国家下级法院作为跨国公司的这种新兴作用。通过审查法国的恐怖主义起诉和不同司法行为者的立场，有人认为，在跨国范围内行事的下级刑事法院比最高法院对国家政策的抵抗力更强。这是由于其职能的例行性和平庸性以及与被告人的直接互动，加上法官自身的职业风气和司法独立的观念。不像最高法院