Publications

Books

• The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habré, edited by Sharon Weill, Kim Thuy Seelinger and Kerstin Carlson (Oxford University Press, 2020).
• The Role of National Courts in Applying International Humanitarian Law (Oxford University Press, 2014). 

• Kerstin Carlson,  Model(ing) Law: Perfecting the Promise of International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press 2018)

• Kerstin Carlson, The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa (Chatham House/Brookings, 2021)

Student Work

• Charlie Hebdo Trial Observation Magazine (Prof Weill’s course ‘Law and Conflict’) 
• L’Autre Côté, documentary film done by students of Prof Weill’s Civil Society Course following a study trip to Israel  
• Climate Litigation & Environmental Rights: Expanding the Rights of Nature by Karl Baldacchino
• Accountability for the Violation of Migrants’ Rights in the Mediterranean by the European Union and its Member States’ Policies by Sofia de Castro Pinheiro Torres

Terrorism and Courts

• “Transnational Jihadism and the Role of Criminal Judges: An Ethnography of French Courts”, Journal of Law and Society (2020) Vol 47, Issue S1, pp 30-53.
• “French foreign fighters: The engagement of administrative and criminal justice in France”, International Review of the Red Cross, Volume 100, Issue 907-909 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
• “Military Courts and Terrorism: The 9/11 Trial before the Guantanamo Bay Military Jurisdiction”, in B. Saul, Research Handbook on International Law and Terrorism (Edward Elgar, 2020).
• “Les filieres djihadistes en process: Approche ethnographique des audiences criminelles et correctionnelles (2017-2019)” (“Jihadisits on Trial: An Ethnographic Approach to Criminal Trials (2017-2019”): Report for the French Ministry of Justice co-authored with Christiane Besnier (anthropologist), Antoine Mégie (sociologist) and Denis Salas (judge). The report is the result of 36 months of empirical research in court. It was published on the Ministry’s website in March 2020 (GIP/CNRS): http://www.gip-recherche-justice.fr/publication/etude-pluridisciplinaire-de-lactivite-de-la-cour-dassises-competente-pour-les-affaires-de-terrorisme-2017-2019/.
• “French counter-terrorism: Administrative and Penal Avenues” - Report prepared for the official visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (May 2018). The report was cited in the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, which was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council following her visit to France. (See, Visit to France, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, May 2018, UN doc A/HRC/40/52/Ad, .4, 8 May 2019, note 50)

National courts and conflicts

• “The Situation of Palestine in Wonderland: An Investigation into ICC’s Impact in Israel” in C. Stahn and M. Bergsmo (eds) Quality Control in Preliminary Examination: Reviewing Impact, Policies and Practices (Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2018).
• “Arguing Civilian Rights and IHL Standards in National Courts” in Mark Lattimer and Philip Sands (eds) The Grey Zone: Civilian Protection Between Human Rights and the Laws of War (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2018).
• “Reducing the Security Gap through National Courts: Targeted Killings as a Case Study”, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2016 (Oxford University Press).
• "Building Respect for IHL through National Courts", International Review of the Red Cross, issue 895 (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• "The Legitimating Role of the Israeli High Court of Justice: From Occupation to Segregation", Global Jurist, Vol 15 (1) (2015).

• “The 2014 Gaza War: Reflections on Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello and Accountability” (with V. Azarova) in A. Bellal (ed), The War Report 2014 (Oxford University Press, 2015). 
• “The Use of Weapons under International Humanitarian Law” (with S. Casey-Maslen) in S. Casey-Maslen (ed), Weapons under International Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
• Migration in the Mediterranean: Why it’s time to put European leaders on trial”, Kerstin Carlson, The Conversation (blog) July 26, 2019 
• Webinar hosted by Professor Kerstin Carlson on migration in the Mediterranean for Twixtlab, July 2020.

In the press:

• Interviewed for France Culture at the end of the trial of Charlie Hebdo, 16 dec 2020 https://www.franceculture.fr/droit-justice/association-de-malfaiteurs-terroristes-une-infraction-qui-pose-question
• Interviewed for French Daily La Croix at the beginning of the Charlie Hebdo trial, by Pierre Bienvault, 2 September 2020 :"Procès Charlie Hebdo - Hyper Cacher : « Ne pas faire peser sur les accusés le poids des attentes de la société" https://www.la-croix.com/France/Proces-Charlie-Hebdo-Hyper-Cacher-Ne-pas-faire-peser-accuses-poids-attentes-societe-2020-09-02-1201111869
• Interviewed for French Daily Le Monde, Section ‘Ideas’, by Jean-Baptiste Jacquin, 10 March 2020 https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/03/10/proces-de-terroristes-il-y-a-une-tension-entre-le-contexte-securitaire-et-l-audience-ou-l-on-revient-a-une-justice-plus-ordinaire_6032428_3232.html
• Interview for ‘Law and Justice’ Website (GIP - Ministry of Justice/ French National Center for Scientific research-CNRS), March 2020 http://www.gip-recherche-justice.fr/2020/03/09/les-filieres-djihadistes-en-proces-approche-ethnographique-des-audiences-criminelles-et-correctionnelles-2017-2019/
• “How Do We Judge Islamist Terrorists”, article by Pierre Januel, Dalloz publication, 5 February 2020. https://www.dalloz-actualite.fr/flash/comment-juge-t-terroristes-islamistes#.Xm_FgNVKFFQ
• Interviewed for the New York Times: “Paris Trial Shows Faltering Evolution of a Jihadist Cell”, by Adam Nossiter, 13 April 2018.