Many wealthy countries today were poor or devastated after World War 2. Their postwar generation invested in their country instead of corrupting it. Politicians who really care about their children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren wouldn't steal from the People but serve them

I wish corrupt politicians would realize that the middle class in a working democracy live far better lives than the elite in a dysfunctional oligarchy. You don't need a fancy car in a walkable city with a good metro. You don't need to be filthy rich in a wealthy welfare state.

My latest publication, coauthored with @pstamase.bsky.social : Proportionality's Potential in the Philippines - a chapter in The Principle of Proportionality in Asia, Europe, and North America (2026) www.giappichelli.it/the-principl...

Art Collab with my 5 year old daughter. I did the pencils of hello kitty & she did everything else.

Proud husband post: Rebecka sharing her diplomatic journey on the Swedish Government's website. www.regeringen.se/artiklar/202...

Cool Stockholm metro detail my son noticed: Pacman being chased by the ghosts (with one ghost far behind)

My complimentary copy just arrived

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Full moon @utokyoofficial.bsky.social

Carlsberg should probably be the beer of choice of academics...

I love working at the office. @utokyoofficial.bsky.social

Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change. This is @pstamase.bsky.social & my chapter for Ngoc Son Bui & Mara Malagodi (eds), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Vol 2: Constitutional Amendments (Hart 2024) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein

What I'm reading for an academic freedom & comparative constitutional studies paper: the intellectual process of Einstein, Newton, and other Physicists

Nice day to work outside

big fan of LPE but feel weird about the Project's association with Yale/it being grant-funded? well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot) give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!

Just published:Journal of Japanese Law (@maxplancklaw.bsky.social ) special issue on Comparative Political Process Theory. These are the Japanese author papers from the 2023 conference at @utokyoofficial.bsky.social organized by our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...

Beer with legal historians in between conference events at Hungary. We missed you @fernandapirie.bsky.social . I'm sorry to hear about your luggage.

Last note to the kids before flying to Tokyo

our special issue of @globcon.bsky.social is finally out! The New Comparative Political Process Theory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The thesis I'm supervising cites "Usher (2015)" leading my brain to suddenly play "You Make me Wanna" in my head

“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro.

When I'm in Tokyo working at the office is better than working from home

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport people under an 18th century wartime law. However, it stipulated that those subject to law are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.

Foodcourts in Japan provide rags to customers so they can wipe their tables clean after eating.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

Cannot wait to dig in @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Get a FREE eBook Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen @rorymuir.bsky.social A Little History of the World -E.H. Gombrich Women in Intelligence - Helen Fry Goodbye Globalization @elisabethbraw.bsky.social Why Marx Was Right -Terry Eagleton Claim your free eBook: yalebooks.co.uk/free-ebook/

Join us for the NUS CALS Book Launch: Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia on 10 April 2025 (Thursday), from 3.00PM to 5.00PM (SGT)! Enjoy a 15% discount on books purchased at the book launch event. Register here: tinyurl.com/cals250410 Registration closes on 7 April 2025

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social has decided that money is more important than academic freedom and respectability.

I stopped writing Inquirer op-eds because I don't want to be that guy commenting on local politics from abroad. But when former ICC Judge Raul Pangalangan suggested I write one after President Duterte's surrender to the ICC, I could no longer stand pat. opinion.inquirer.net/181715/the-l...

Today was finally a good day for peace, democracy, and human rights. What a long wait.

On President Duterte's arrest, I wrote this 8 years ago: "What the law can do is change the stakes. Necessity has no law for what happens after a crisis to those who invoke it. Cicero and Napoleon were exiled. Robespierre and Eichmann were executed." opinion.inquirer.net/100563/lawye...

Define irony: Trump proclaiming "Free speech is back!" As the sergeant at arms was walking legislators out of the capitol "to restore order" for speaking truth to power by declaiming his speech.

If you're ever bored archive.org is a free internet library with billions of hours of stuff between movie books music etc.

I just heard that the US government has emailed American international schools worldwide that it will stop their funding unless they drop teaching diversity and human rights. Is this true?

Being beside a river means Uppsala University has plenty of scenic restaurants surrounding it.

𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗘 𝟵𝟴, 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟭 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 The first issue of the 98th Volume of the Philippine Law Journal is now accessible on the relaunched PLJ Website at philippinelawjournal.org/volume/post/.... Issue 1 contains three Notes and one Essay.

"anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” lithub.com/edward-gorey...

Great scholarship is like an amazing magic trick: preparing for it and setting it up takes far more time and effort than most others would think rational. And then when executed it looks so effortless.

One look at his 📚 & I knew my new office roommate & I will get along quite well