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Since 2013, we have been collecting the personal viewpoints of members of the judiciary who have reached the end of their career. Gradually we have built up a body of material that constitutes the living memory of a profession as recounted by its members. Listening to these voices, these “oral archives”, constitutes an experience close to an immersion in a professional environment. It gives the listener an intimate understanding of the standards, values and representations that apply in this world. The strength of this oral history is that it reveals the relative autonomy of the people involved, who are integral parts of the organisations but can also profoundly transform them. We get a grasp of what text and the archives do not show: the relations between generations, the forms of solidarity, the concrete experiences and the silent transformations, what the different jobs involve, how their holders experiment with them… This approach allows us “to take seriously the representations and theoretical and practical legitimisations of their actions that individuals construct and allow outsiders to see”. It is no exaggeration to say that over this period, in the space of two generations, the justice world has changed more than in the two previous centuries, with the place it has taken in an ever more judicialised society.