🚨🚨 "Europe cannot afford to forget a fundamental truth: values and principles are not luxuries to be set aside when the pressure mounts". Great @theguardian.com opinion piece by @onethuthree.bsky.social & @jannikjansen.bsky.social:

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Colóquio Breve La teoria politica frente al avance de las extremas derechas Del diagnóstico a las alternativas utópicas Responsables André Kaysel y Alejandro Sahui Grupo de investigación teoría política PRIMER ENCUENTRO 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TK6...

A new paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social with a great team of researchers (inc @katemason.bsky.social). We lay out an updated framework for thinking about housing as a social determinant of health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why do #opposition parties sometimes support the government? My analyses show that parties use their votes in #parliament to shape how voters see them, what policies they can influence, and where they might end up after the next election @polscileiden.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

This is a terrifying but unfortunately realistic description of how well coordinated and effective the demolition of law-based democratic institutions and norms has been — and how far from an effective counterforce the fragmented and disjointed resistance has mounted www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

32 USC § 502(f)(2) would violate Article IV of the Constitution if applied to support deployment of un-federalized out-of-state National Guard troops into a state that didn’t want those troops there, as with Trump’s proposed use of the Texas National Guard to invade Illinois

"An 'overwhelming majority' of respondents said that Bluesky has a "vibrant and healthy online science community," while Twitter no longer does.." #BlueskyforScience 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

🧁 Happy birthday to Elinor Ostrom! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. The committee recognized her work on "economic governance, especially the commons." We are not doomed to overuse our shared resources - sustainability through collaborative governance is possible.

@tarunkhaitan.bsky.social brilliantly quoting John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn", particularly the poem’s final lines: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”. impressive panel about desinformation, truth, and how to streghten democracies

Excellent! So many interesting panels and presentations!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Super excited to be presenting 2 papers next week at the @icon-s.bsky.social conference in Brasilia!! So looking forward to discussing and learning new ideas and meeting old and new colleagues and friends. Hope to see you there!

Europe has replaced the lost US aid to Ukraine in 2025.

The Boomerang Effect: How Disrespect for International Law Threatens Democracy | by Matthias Goldmann

🗓️ Just 10 days to go! Here's a glimpse of what's in store at the 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference in Brasília, Brazil 🇧🇷 Explore all plenary sessions, panels & events happening July 28–30: 🔗 app.oxfordabstracts.com/dashboard/ev... #iconsbrasília

A leading Finnish software and methodologies company revealed that a Russian disinformation campaign was behind the non-confidence motion presented by Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea, vice-chair of the ECR Group. The motion was signed by 77 MEPs from various other far-right European political groups.

How wide is the margin of appreciation that states have when setting national carbon budgets under the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? 🌍📉 @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog. verfassungsblog.de/quantifying-...

Public discourse and comparative constitutional law: a research agenda by Ngoc Son Bui, out now and OPEN ACCESS @compconstudies.bsky.social 👇https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/ccs/ccs-overview.xml

📽️📚 Check out the latest edition of the ICON•S New Scholarship Showcase, featuring "The Story of Constitutions" 🖋️ Wim Voermans Maja Sahadzic in conversation w/ author. 🎧 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-J...

On 11 June, Colombia’s President Petro defied the Constitution by decreeing a national popular consultation on social reforms – after the Senate had rejected it. VICENTE F. BENÍTEZ-R. & FABIO PULIDO-ORTIZ detect a Schmittian turn in Colombia. 🇨🇴 verfassungsblog.de/colombia-aut...

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking. Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public. Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us. But clear communication is essential for democracy. So how do we do it? 🧵 New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

Happy to contribute to this story on fertility decline in Chile by @aljazeera.com www.livetube.tv/news/video-c...

SCOTUS's last term was marked by more than a few disturbing developments. LEAH LITMAN ‪(@leahlitman.bsky.social‬) on the delegitimization campaign against the lower federal courts and how Republican justices are legitimizing & enabling a lawless executive branch. verfassungsblog.de/the-law-of-l...

Deeply grateful to dear Richard Albert for introducing my PhD research to a wider audience by mentioning our meeting and depicting it in the March edition of the Leaflet! lnkd.in/e9tgm7WK. Here a picture of us at his office, with my thesis. It was such a dynamic conversation. Thank you so much!

Legal Pluralism in Practice: Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government | by Marzia Genovese

"The diminution and marginalization of science are thus central parts of the erosion of democracy itself." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Many Dutch children enjoy a freedom of movement that most American kids don’t, which might be the key to why Dutch kids are the happiest kids in the world, according to a 2025 UNICEF report," writes Mary Frances Ruskell. | Essay

👇🏽👇🏽 #Agendar ¡¡Lanzamos la convocatoria📣!! III Seminario Internacional "Política Subnacional en América Latina🌎" 📅Fecha límite para postulaciones📋: 14 de julio 🗓️Fecha del evento: 30-31 de octubre de 2025 🏫Lugar: CENUR Litoral Norte (UDELAR), Salto, Uruguay

California will sue the Trump administration over the mobilization of the National Guard to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles. cnn.it/3FFo9dd

🚨🚨"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right." Depressing but excellent read by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the implications of the #polish elections.

Last week, the State Department published a Substack post accusing European allies of destroying democracy. I looked into the author, and found out that he was a disciple of Adrian Vermeule who believed in infiltrating the bureaucracy to undermine liberalism www.vox.com/on-the-right...

🚨🚨In an undeservedly underreported story, it appears that the #Georgian ruling party is going off the rocks on its #authoritarian crackdown on dissenting opinions by commencing to detain opposition leaders. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/he-was-kidna...

Our summer #programme this year explores how online spaces are shaping #radicalisation, and how states can respond without compromising the rule of law. Join professionals, researchers and policymakers for a hands-on, thought-provoking week in The Hague. ➡️ bit.ly/4i6BNTE #counterterrorism #intlaw

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

“Austerity’s effects were evident.. across 30 European countries, 44 per cent of children living in conditions of severe material deprivation lived in three nations… Romania…[plus] Italy and the UK – which had pursued aggressive programmes of cuts“ magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/05/21/t...

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Orban is following through on his threat to kill off all NGOs that do not support his government: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Thomas Mann's youngest daughter, is best known for her pioneering contributions to UNCLOS. SARA WISSMANN tells the remarkable story of the "Mother of the Oceans" for this month' "Outstanding Women" portrait. verfassungsblog.de/outstanding-...

Academic institutions in the U.S. are under attack. HANS MICHAEL HEINIG (@hmheinig.bsky.social) examines how Harvard is responding to the attacks — and what this response reveals about the protection of academic freedom in the U.S. verfassungsblog.de/academic-fre...

Very helpful overview and assessment of legal reform in Italy!

"Humble Francis: A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome" Others, more knowledgeable than me, will write memorials today. I want to share a single detail from one day in Rome, in January 2018. snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...

The original post was from 2023 when the Biden administration was defending against Schedule F. Now Trump is trying to undo that protection by going through the same process in reverse. Defend the independent civil service by making your views known! open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

President’s Third Term Talk Defies Constitution and Tests Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/u...

Half of Global CO2 in 2023 came from just 36 Companies!!!! Wow. . . 😳 🙄

“Expertise” is really a democratic concept. You can be expert no matter who you are. No wonder there is always a push to 1. Redefine expertise along social lines, eg rich people are ipso facto expert 2. Devalue expertise in favor of something else like lacrosse buddies or church friends.

In the last ten years, the top 20 percent of the US income distribution have seen gains of $20 trillion in their stock portfolios. The top ten percent of incomes are responsible for half of US household expenditures.

“In his nearly twenty years as Chief Justice, Roberts has espoused a sweeping vision of Presidential authority—sometimes with language so broad as to make Congress and the courts appear small by comparison.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Kindle version of The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power, is now available: www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/B0DQ...