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Mobilizing qualitative and quantitative methods, Julien Larregue's research focuses on the origin, transmission and structure of expert knowledge and practices, particularly in the scientific and legal fields.

In particular, he has been examining the influence that biological explanations, via disciplines such as neuroscience, genetics and evolutionary psychology, have had on the scientific understanding of human behavior since the second half of the 20th century. A book resulting from this research, Héréditaire. L’éternel retour des théories biologiques du crime, published by Éditions du Seuil in 2020, won an award from the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française. A revised version of the book was published by Stanford University Press in January 2024.

He is currently focusing on three main projects:

1. the work of defense attorneys specializing in criminal law, based on an ethnographic fieldwork in a major French city
2. the methodological reform movement that has affected social psychology over the past fifteen years
3. the link between symbolic hierarchies among research topics, methods and disciplines on the one hand, and gender inequalities in research funding on the other. 

He is a member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), a Research Associate at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (Université Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne – CNRS – EHESS), and a Project Director  of the Trust Collaboratory, Columbia University, where he co-directs the Criminal Legal Algorithms, Technology, and Expertise (CLATE) project.

Research interests

• Sociology of Science and Knowledge
• Sociology of law and justice
• Gender Studies