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Great news for us here @maynoothuniversity.ie Follow @reveljmce.bsky.social to keep up to date with what we are up to over the next three years.

We are so glad to announce the new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence @reveljmce.bsky.social funded by the European Union lead by @tobiaslock.bsky.social alongside some wonderful colleagues across @maynoothuniversity.ie Make sure to follow @reveljmce.bsky.social for updates!!

Delighted to be part of a wonderful team and leading the new @reveljmce.bsky.social. Lots to come in terms of activities (please follow us!) - for now: thanks to our wonderful colleagues @maynoothlaw.bsky.social; @muresearch.bsky.social for their invaluable support!

Are you a PhD or early career researcher in EU law and politics? Come to the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh to give a paper at our PhD/ECR Workshop on the topic of "Defending the European Union". Dates: 23-24 April 2026. Details here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Exciting publication news! I have been working for the past couple of years with co-editor @ascherz.bsky.social and awesome authors (details below) on a special issue on “Legitimate International Authority and Institutional Diversity”. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

Excited to start the second round of our international doctoral programme on business and human rights funded by Elite Network Bavaria @fau.de @humanrights-fau.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Suing the EU Commission for withdrawal of a legislative proposal is a rare thing - my comments on the only CJEU judgment to date on this, from back in 2015 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...

Sad news. David was a lovely man and as sharp as they come.

Come Work With Us! The School of Law and Criminology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Law (permanent) Closing Date: Sunday 23 November 2025 For full details see: tinyurl.com/4abrx98c

How can academic freedom be maintained when universities have commercial relationships with totalitarian countries like China? This is a chilling example. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...

I have an awful sinking feeling about this protest in Saggart tonight. The rhetoric on far right channels has been extremely violent all day.

This latest "barrister meets AI" disaster is something all stage 1 law students should read. It is vital about the key skill of case reading - you mustn't use AI to substitute for the skill of being able to find cases and find key content in cases: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202...

Tuesday 21 October, 2pm As part of research week, join us on campus and online for 'Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities' To register: tinyurl.com/yhkuuzja

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

Anyone interested in the power of the Commission President to compel the resignation of a Commissioner can read my and @grahambutler.bsky.social’s article published in the CMLRev in 2024. A pre-publication version can be accessed here: keele-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/7...

Congratulations!

Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne has published a new article on internal displacement in International Journal of Refugee Law See: tinyurl.com/yb68f8t3

Was wäre, wenn...❓Im Thüringen-Projekt haben wir uns 1,5 Jahre lang damit beschäftigt, was passieren könnte, wenn autoritär-populistische Akteure staatliche Machtmittel in die Hand bekommen. 35 Blogposts aus dem Projekt haben wir jetzt als Sammelband veröffentlicht. Wie immer: Open Access! 🔓

Breaking Terror charges against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh THROWN OUT

"Hey Maria, Michael McDowell here. just seeing I've a few missed calls from you. What's up?"

It is 20 years since Conor Gearty gave the Hamlyn Lectures on Can Human Rights Survive? As a mark of respect following the dreadful news of his, Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made these lectures Open Access for the remainder of the year. You can find them here: lnkd.in/e5Xrt2G5

Can you present your research to a broad audience clearly and concisely in just 3 minutes? 🥇 1st Place – €250 One4all Voucher 🥈 2nd Place – €200 One4all Voucher 🥉 3rd Place – €150 One4all Voucher Research students register below & join us to showcase the research talent at Maynooth University!

Seeing as so many people are making claims about the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the ECHR, here's a short but comprehensive explainer from people who have been thinking, writing and talking about this for longer than most 😊

Irish 'patriots' present for Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" rally in London. It takes all sorts (in this case, racist idiots)

New tensions in Hungary’s judiciary 🇭🇺: After intervening in the referral phase of Art. 267 TFEU, the Hungarian Supreme Court now seeks to influence how lower courts apply CJEU rulings. ANNA MADARASI and TAMÁS KENDE on what's at stake. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-prel...

There has been a lot of ink spilled about the substance of the Policy Exchange paper today. I just want to write a brief thread here on a point that I haven't seen mentioned today and what I think is likely to be a key target of the paper: the upcoming Supreme Court appeal in Dillon (UKSC/2025/0013)

Gary Gannon TD has taken a High Court action against the Central Bank approving Israel's bond prospectus. If you're interested in hearing the legal basis for this challenge, I will be outlining it as part of a Zoom webinar at 7pm today. You can register for it here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The German Federal Constitutional Court has been asked to rule on whether the German constitution contradicts a CJEU judgment on religious discrimination. Analysis by Jonas Seibold - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/08/holy...

Strong Reichsbürger vibes coming from this group.

Call for Proposals A book series 'New Advances in Crime and Social Harm' co-edited by Prof Claire Hamilton welcomes submissions Proposals from up-and-coming scholars seeking to extend the criminological gaze through a harms-based perspective are particularly welcome

This little parable is a nice illustration of why it is important for mainstream parties to set and uphold clear, bright line anti-prejudice norms, and of why the failure of senior Conservatives to do so risks doing great harm to their party

We are hiring a 12 month Research Assistant position for our EU Horizon project Sustainable Wellbeing through Investment in Social Services (SWINS). Closing date is September 19th. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Looking like Heather Humphreys is so popular with the Fine Gael parliamentary party that, if there were to be a full ballot, she would be unassailable - and that Sean Kelly may have a battle on his hands even to get the 20 signatures needed for a contest. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bund... Der #CDUCSU gelingt eine einzigartige Beschädigung des #BVerfG und einer geschätzten Kollegin. Am rechten Rand der Republik knallen die Sektkorken. Wir gehen unruhigen Zeiten entgegen.

I am on Deutsche Bahn and the train appears to be a minute early!

EU Commission proposes partial suspension of Israel association with EU research programme Horizon ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The tabloid press is on the case already... It's going to be a long few years for EU-ECHR aficionados. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

EU Commission to ask CJEU to rule on whether the latest attempt to draft a treaty for EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law

A graph that sums up an issue that is having an impact on all policy areas in Ireland - housing. The % of homeowners in the Irish 25-34 age group has dropped by over 40% since the 1990s. If the govt don’t sort this out we’ll all pay the price. on.ft.com/4kVfBNS

Associate Prof at The School of Law and Criminology, Dr John Reynolds was invited to give expert evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade See: tinyurl.com/3cvzzfwb @seanmacr.bsky.social

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

The call for papers for the 45th Rechtshistorikertag in Vienna 2026 is now live: rht2026.univie.ac.at

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

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-...

Irish politics remains impenetrable to outsiders because the most left wing grouping oppose a property tax, while those on the right approve of it.

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und die Verfassung der Deutschen - Eine Rekonstruktion. Am 25. Juni um 18:42 verändert der Jurist Ekkehart Reimer laut „t-online“ gezielt den Wikipedia-Eintrag von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und fügt eine Passage zum Thema „Schwangerschaftsabbruch“ hinzu.

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by @germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...