📢 Freeing Constitutional Identity @jscholt.bsky.social reads Solange I as a groundbreaking judgment on constitutional identity, arguing why constitutionaly identity does not need to be linked to unamendability. A truly interesting article #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/... #ZaöRV

The whoooooooooooole shebang is out with @europeanlawopen.bsky.social. Everything you wanted to know about Marxism and EU law, but were afraid to ask.

What is the role of law in the Gaza war? To OR BASSOK, the reality in Israel is not a story of a struggle between those who speak in the name of law against the lawless Behemoth. It's more complex than that: both sides are speaking the language of law. verfassungsblog.de/fraenkel-isr...

My newest in the Hague J on the Rule of Law: a critical study of the work of the Venice Commission. I argue that aspects of the VC's work sheds light on our 'mental map' of European constitutionalism, emphasising above all an East-West binary. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited to be on research leave for the next six months – the first unfettered research time I've had in four years. I'm looking at an open field with many ideas but no clear plan yet, which makes it all the more exciting. If you've ever wanted to get in touch on research matters, now is the time!

New article out in @zaoerv.bsky.social as part of a special issue on the 50th anniversary of the German CC's Solange I judgment. Read it here: doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2025-2-547

This (and related measures in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice - FSJ) causes yet another conceptual headache for understanding the Windsor Framework (like we didn't have enough). 1/

An intellectually fascinating (and entertaining) engagement with Armin von Bogdandy's 'European society' project by Martin Loughlin: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In our newest contribution to our symposium “Controversies over Methods in EU Law II” JENNIFER ORLANDO-SALLING explores how decolonial approaches in European Law offer a constructive space towards dialogue and reconstruction. verfassungsblog.de/decolonialit...

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign More details 👇 #transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Glad to see this out on the UKCLA blog, especially as it shows that the Court completely neglected the HRA/ECHR arguments brought by Amnesty International in their submission. So, even taking at face value claims that this decision was 'purely' about statutory interpretation, it is seriously wanting

Blogged Pirates of the Mediterranean The CJEU rules against Malta's investor citizenship law - my analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/04/pira...

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

This isn't anything an "independent" statutory body would ever produce. It's an unworkable overreach by a politically motivated actor that should not be a statutory body anymore.

🚨📢Come work with us! We at Humboldt University’s law faculty have an amazing Easter present for all EU law aficionados! The DFG Research Training Group DynamInt offers 12 fully funded PhD positions in the area of European law starting from October 2025! www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp...

There's maybe no photo that better defines this ghastly era than these people celebrating the right to deny shelter to homeless trans women in the name of female empowerment.

Tentative First Thought - Today's UKSC ruling in For Women Scotland divides UK jurisdictions - the Equality Act doesn't apply in NI and trans people in NI have protections under some EU law (applicable through Art 2 Windsor Framework) which does grant trans people protections based on sex.

www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... I'll be giving a talk at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law next Wednesday (26 March, 4pm) – some reflections on the standards of the Venice Commission and what they tell us about our 'mental map' of European constitutionalism. Registration link below!

On March 11, 2025, the Romanian Constitutional Court rejected a candidacy in do-over May elections for Georgescu – an ultranationalist, MAGA-style firebrand. BOGDAN IANCU offers a fascinating comparison with the timeless H.G. Wells' The Time Machine: verfassungsblog.de/romanian-mil...

Full text of today's Advocate General's opinion on the Polish constitutional Court - independence and primacy of EU law curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Possibly the most head-on the Court/an AG has faced constitutional identity yet. The AG refutes connection between CI (as asserted by national CCs) and Art 4(2) TEU and asserts that "it is for the Court to settle definitively any conflict between EU law and the CI of a MS".

Very interesting post by @kimlanelaw.bsky.social. Some things I agree with and others I don't - but the post is telling about shortcomings of premising constitutional change on the vagaries of 'transnational expertise'. The million $ question is: Does 'RoL writ large' require following VC opinions?

Fun times for those of us into FMoP ahead.

The annulment of Romania’s presidential election results by its Constitutional Court is a triumph for democracy! MILES R. MAFTEAN argues, however, that the annulment is also a stark reminder of the limits of judicial power: verfassungsblog.de/triumph-in-r...

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1/ Some general points about how asylum and immigration law applies when an appalling dictatorship is ousted in another country. #Syria 🇸🇾

The essential starter pack

Hello from a newcomer! Here's an attempt: 1) figuring out how ordinary national courts change EU law and is it constitutionally relevant; 2) what Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has to teach us about the EU. And hoping 2) will become 1) soon!

This Friday, we will be hosting, together with the Glasgow Legal Theory group, our annual Disputationes! This event brings together PhD students and staff from the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Surrey to share and discuss their research. More info at: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/....

Here we go: 1) the political geography (or the 'mental map') of European constitutionalism 2) the role of irony in constitutional discourse

Wearing pink for publication day! New out from @ruthhoughton.bsky.social, @aoifemod.bsky.social and me, our meditation on gender, power relations and constitutional change in #Barbie. Just because it's fun, this doesn't mean it's not also serious... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

*taps mic* Err, hello, my name is Jenny and I’m looking for starter packs on EU legal studies, critical legal theory, postcolonialism, decolonial approaches. Help a lost woman out, 🦋? Still have no idea how to use this thing. Now I know how my granny feels operating WhatsApp.

Glad to see this place is starting to thrive. Left Twitter a couple weeks back. I'll try to be more active on here. Where are the EU law/comparative con law starter packs??

Next Wednesday I will return to the EUI (my alma mater) to discuss my new book. Looking forward to the discussion and comments from @kasiakrzyzan.bsky.social and Franca Feisel. Sign up here to join if you're around: www.eui.eu/events?id=56...

Lucky to be back on on circa 2018 (?) twitter.