Well, at least there are no disturbances in the faculty corridors at this time. Of course, I am not counting the ever-present Dean as a disturbance.

Colleague: "What would you say to that nasty reviewer who shredded your submission!" Me:

Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental, obviously

Why can faculty council meetings be torturous? For instance, when grading a doctoral dissertation, a random professor can say "I haven't read the thesis, it's not my fied and I wasn't present at the defense, but...", and no one tells him to shut up. All I can think "Shut the f*ck up dude!"

What do you call someone who betrays an ally? #askingforDenmark

On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫

It doesn't bother me that he's a convicted felon, narcissist, ignoramus, impulsive, misogynistic, liar, and smug idiot. It does bother me that he's the president of a superpower.

International law is far from perfect but it sure is better than mobster diplomacy.

Comparative Law Enlightenment Comparativism is legal scholar's emergence from their doctrinalism-imposed nonage. — Emmanuel Can

Think carefully who you invite for Christmas...

Christmas can be a dangerous time. I almost got hit in the head with a ladle when I made *wrong* comment about the appearance of the dessert my wife was making.

Hyvää joulua! 🇫🇮 Merry Christmas! 🇬🇧 God jul! 🇸🇪 Joyeux Noël! 🇫🇷 Frohe Weihnachten! 🇩🇪 Vrolijk kerstfeest! 🇳🇱 Kαλά Χριστούγεννα! 🇬🇷 聖誕快樂! 🇭🇰

It is great to see my PhDer's final thesis. Päivi will defend her thesis publicly on the 16th of January. The opponent is professor Mathias Siems (EUI). Pre-examiners were professors Lei Chen (Durham) and Marc Moore (Nottingham). Thesis is article based, summary: helda.helsinki.fi/items/a00906...

RIP Chris Rea, you made some great music.

Festive season is at hand and it is good to remember that a Faculty of Law is, in essence, like a happy family.

If I would sleep with four dogs and then wake up with claw marks I would most likely not suspect a demon attack. Then again, I am not Tucker.

I freely admit that I liked the US more when it was not the Russia's ass licking kleptocracy it is today.

Beliefs are not facts. I happen to like facts.

That self-centred ignoramus thinks everything is about him. What a twisted c*nt he really is. Yet, he was actually voted to power. Unbelievable and unfortunate.

Refreshing and entertaining. Foster's French was impressive.

Yorkies are vicious beasts...

Theodore Roosevelt on patriotism: "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official" I guess he's not fashionable anymore. Alas

Me when I read a good comparative law paper.* *no not that paper

Me in most days...

Oh no, one's too many and a hundred ain't enough...

Perhaps it's just me but I don't think that a book review should be like hanging, drawing, and quartering the author(s). Why not discuss the arguments instead of ad hominem attacks?

No it's not. But we do have some *interesting* characters.

I commented this on LinkedIn couple of days ago. My point was: "According to ancient Greek saying, attributed to Cleobulus, there should be 'moderation in all things' (Πᾶν μέτρον ἄριστον). I admit that this saying makes perfectly sense to me."

Suddenly I find myself liking Amanda Seyfried even more than before.

This looks like a great opportunity if you have any interest in things like socio-legal, law in context, law and globalisation, teaching of law, legal theory, or comparative law.

When Twitter became difficult three years ago many of us here we happy to start on a new platform. Unfortunately this place seems to be less active than what it could be. My Bluesky is a pleasant but somewhat silent place.

When you publish a monograph and tell it to your dear colleague who shares his opinion.

When you publish a monograph and tell it to your dear colleague who shares his opinion.

I am old enough to remember when the US was a serious country.

6th December is the Finnish Independence Day. Also a good day to remember why we still have conscription. We need to maintain a large, combat-ready reserve force. Our eastern neighbour makes it necessary. Alas.

The FIFA Peace Prize?

BOOK REVIEW: William BARBEY on Elgar encyclopedia of comparative law edited by Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke and Madalena Narciso (Comparative Legal History, XIII (2025), nr. 2) @tandfresearch.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspt.com/2025/12/book...

LinkedIn seems to be down. Who knows, perhaps that's a good thing?

New #CalledToTheBar! Imogen Saunders chats with editors from the American Journal of International Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Australian Yearbook of International Law about publishing, peer review, & what makes a great article. Essential ECR listening! soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

It's December which means that our daughter has officially opened the gingerbread season.

Murdering small potatoes (who may be innocent) out in the sea but pardoning big player like Hernández makes no sense at all. Cheeto Satan's presidency falls deeper into the black hole every day. And this is just the first year.

The importance of staring out the window with your dog should not be belittled. It is soul cleansing activity.

New issue of the Journal of Comparative Law (20:2) contains autobiographical essays of comparatists ("comparative lawyers"), including yours truly. Below you can see my essay's last page with some thoughts on the field and its future.

Sharing one of my, hopefully, entertaining comparative law memes on this platform.

"Codified Constitution is not a description of reality." — Antero Jyränki (my past friend and mentor)

Yours truly at a conference dinner.

Former F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen would know what to say to the Reviewer 2: “Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing”

Just saying that Sir David is pro-life, not anti-human. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hart Publishing has now added a description of my book on their website. www.bloomsbury.com/au/contraria...

We can learn thinking patterns from the US government. Here goes: The claim "reptilian aliens have not replaced important people" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that reptilian aliens have replaced important people. F*cking brilliant, eh?