We're trying very hard not to make a joke about Christmas King Carol. On First View, Cosmin Cercel on the construction of authoritarian rule in interwar Romania. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

L'ora del potere esecutivo: Orlando Scarcello on the legal thought of Constantino Mortati in fascist Italy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is how it is done: posit a problem, sketch out a theoretical framework, apply said framework to the analysis of the material. Excellent work by Tom Bouwman on First View. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our thoughts exactly.

The revolution will not be televised. But it is available on FirstView: @martijnhesselink.bsky.social proposes to occupy the European Commission’s recent plans for a 28th legal regime. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How European society produces 'a core where EU values are fully guaranteed, and a periphery where they disappear.' Toni Marzal has important things to say. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View, Loïc Azoulai on the naissances latentes of European society and its law. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: @zacharymazur.bsky.social unravels a complicated story of interwar authoritarianism in Poland. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Strengthening national military–industrial complexes rather than building a coordinated European defence framework? Marco Dani and Agustín Menéndez on keeping freedom free in the EU. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New issue dropped! Thanks to @sarahvahed.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social @koenvanzon.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social and the others for some brilliant work. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView- Mala Loth on the unlikeliest of legal entrepeneurs to write the history of European legal integration. Fascinating stuff. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First Viuew: Julian Waller on Electoral authoritarianism 1.0. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Articles from @europeanlawopen.bsky.social have been downloaded over 100,000 times in 2025 🥳 Read innovative research in this #openaccess journal: 🔗 cup.org/43yEjxM #EuropeanLaw #LawSky

The symposium is coming together nicely: Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth write the introduction cum manifest on bottom-up legal history. @koenvanzon.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView: Chris Thornhill on violence as the not-so mystical foundation of constitutionalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView: our own @lolaavril.bsky.social writes a history of the European legal profession. It started out so well: ‘the common market has nothing to do with lawyers’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another contribution on FirstView to our symposium on constitutional identity: Laurianne Allezard on concepts of identity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Down to be wrong. On FirstView, Magnus Esmark goes on a Bourdieusian walk through the Buy Danish saga www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As told by @whommes.bsky.social it's as good

How the ECtHR came to life through pressure groups and entrepeneurial academics. Wild stories beautifully told by Wiebe Hommes on FirstView. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Is it? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: Ophelia Bentley and Kathleen McNamara on the turn in competition policy towards securitization. Hugely important stuff. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo on the increasing deference the CJEU shows the Commission on legal issues in merger control. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: important historical work by @historikarin.bsky.social and @koenvanzon.bsky.social on different pathways to mobilisation of EU Law. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: Pietro Ortolani, @cgoanta.bsky.social, @sarahvahed.bsky.social, and Alan Sanfey test some behavioural assumptions in the DSA. People are strange when you're a stranger. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's not just that Integration-Through-Law no longer holds: it never did. Robert Schütze goes to town. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView, @boskotripkovic.bsky.social argues that constitutional identity presupposes- rather than limits- respect for fundamental rights. Seriously brilliant stuff. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View, the first paper in our constitutional identity symposium. Francois-Xavier Millet on the shift from la loi to le droit: 'the very discourse of constitutional identity in France may be the swan song of the proud republican tradition.' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Přibáň wraps up the symposium on Constitutional Imaginaries in our latest issue by engaging with his critics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View, the first contribution in our symposium on (interbellum) authoritarian encounters. Fascinating work by Paula Borges Santos. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Many thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social for putting together the Marxism and EU Law symposium. Good stuff, and long overdue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New symposium out now🎉 Edited by @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social + me in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social seeks to introduce Marxist approaches to EU law scholarship. Read now 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵 (1/9) A thread on the symposium (please share!)

The Editorial in the new issue by @lolaavril.bsky.social on what the post-regulatory sate is morphing into www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

we see monsters.... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New issue is out, just in time for the rentrée www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're heartbroken at the news of Christian Joerges passing away. Kind, generous, and irrepressibly curious about people and their ideas, his life and work taught so many of us what makes academia worthwhile. Much love and strength to Michelle and the family. Mehr Licht!

On First View: Leandro Mancano pulls out Miles Davis for an analysis of the asylum and migration pact. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Joerges symposium is introduced by @annabeckers.bsky.social and @vbogoesky.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

here's a good thing we did www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Christian Joerges talks life and law to ELO. Und dass sowas von sowas kommt.. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The 'Joerges issue' just dropped- Law, Conflict and Transformation. Thank you @annabeckers.bsky.social, @vbogoesky.bsky.social, @stevenklein.bsky.social, @annapeychev.bsky.social, @mariaweimer.bsky.social, and others for brilliance and patience. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Definitely read @andywoodhouse.bsky.social's piece, which gives us a forensic Marxist account of EU emiisions trading. One more substantive piece left now in our @europeanlawopen.bsky.social Marxism and EU symposium, the monster by me, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and @nanoboss.bsky.social.

ETS as climate rent- on FirstView, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social on power and class in emissions trading. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView, Christian Joerges reconstructs the conceptual history of conflicts-law constitutionalism. We love the man and the scholar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In case you missed it, you'll miss it.

On FirstView: @dimitrispieker.bsky.social takes a closer look at the German courts in the preliminary reference procedure. Nicht alles Gold, was glänzt. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: Francesca Scamardella on Přibáň, Teubner and the end of an era: law is no longer sufficient to coagulate the European social imaginary, she says, because normativity comes from elsewhere. Buona domenica! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView: our own beloved @marijabartl.bsky.social and Paul Linden-Retek save the political from systems theory. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On FirstView, Paulus Blokker on constitutional imaginaries, Přibáň, and Castoriadis. No, neither did we. Yes, so should you. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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