Juha Tuovinen
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Constitutional lawyer at Durham Law School
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Michaela Hailbronner
3 months ago
My book is finally out open access,dealing w arguments from failure, i.e. when institutions act in legally problematic ways because others have failed to do their job. It is comparative & should be interesting (I hope), even if it doesn't hold all the answers.
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The Failures of Others | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
https://www.cambridge.org/se/universitypress/subjects/law/constitutional-and-administrative-law/failures-others-justifying-institutional-expansion-comparative-public-and-international-law?format=HB&isbn=9781009646666#contents
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
4 months ago
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
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The āDanish modelā is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesnāt even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This weekās local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, theyāre making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/danish-model-centre-left-parties-labour-doesnt-work
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Selection committees: please send us a copy of your PhD certificate Also selection committees:
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Colin Murray
4 months ago
This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.
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Michael Bang Petersen
4 months ago
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at
@au.dk
:
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share!
@tboeggild.bsky.social
can help with Qs
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Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/four-three-year-postdoctoral-positions-in-the-project-slow-motion-democracy
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Se-shauna Wheatle
5 months ago
Hurricane Melissa has done catastrophic damage to Western Jamaica. We are used to hurricanes, but this is the worst hurricane on record that has ever hit the island. There has been devastation to infrastructure and housing. If you are able to, please donate to relief efforts:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Public Law
5 months ago
In memory of Conor Gearty, Public Law's 2007 symposium on his Hamlyn Lectures, "Can Human Rights Survive?" is available to read here:
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...
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https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/ue/en-gb/documents/pdf/journals/public-law/can-human-rights-survive.pdf
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Gaurav Mukherjee
7 months ago
Thanks for the ārecommendedā tag, Larry! Excited to share my job-market paper, which uses the recent religious charter school case to show how faith-based entities secure public funds while sidestepping constitutional limitsāa phenomenon I term āprivate disestablishment.ā
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Gaurav Mukherjee
7 months ago
Thanks for highlighting, Larry! This chapter argues that education law has privileged parental choice & religious freedom while sidelining equality. I argue for re-centering education as a right that secures both liberty & equalityāthe foundation of democratic citizenship.
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Jan-Werner Mueller
7 months ago
"The sabotaging of what normally is a consensual procedure is a test-run for prying away ever more members of the center-right from what remains of Angela Merkelās legacy through US-style culture war."
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Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany
Jan-Werner Mueller worries that the governing Christian Democrats is beginning to engage in opportunistic norm-breaking.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/germany-cdu-campaign-against-brosius-gersdorf-an-ill-omen-by-jan-werner-mueller-2025-08
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Public Law Conference
7 months ago
The next Public Law Conference will be held at University of Cape Town, 1-4 July 2026. The theme is Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy. 2026 marks the 30 year anniversary since the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. More details coming soon.
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Giuseppe Martinico
7 months ago
1/3 Academic freedom is becoming an increasingly pressing issue worldwide, challenged in diverse political and legal contexts. Here are some recent resources : Special issue on academic freedom, edited by Kriszta KovƔcs and Janika Spannagel:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Global Constitutionalism: Volume 14 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-constitutionalism/issue/5908A692ACB2E5B6C50BE0A68DDEE611
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Verfassungsblog
9 months ago
Publication day! š« Our Verfassungsbook āIndian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024ā, edited by ANMOL JAIN (
@anmoljain-law.bsky.social
) and TANJA HERKLOTZ (
@tanjaherklotz.bsky.social
) is now available in print and online! š Check it out now!
verfassungsblog.de/books/
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
11 months ago
Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/
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Per Engzell
10 months ago
Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles Iāve published
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Iād strongly prefer being called a (potentially) ālucky loserā than being on the reserve listā¦
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10 months ago
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Jan-Werner Mueller
10 months ago
Beauty of the English language: "in sync" is so much crisper and more elegant than Gleichschaltung.
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Remember those - partially very silly - changes that Meta announced to its content moderation policies in January? The
@oversightboard.bsky.social
has pushed back gently but it may also have adapted its own approach to better suit Meta's new stance...
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10 months ago
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Verfassungsblog
10 months ago
Why the new Hungarian Transparency Bill is an attack on the foundations of the European Union: RENĆTA UITZ on the notorious transparency bill, why constitutional democracy in Hungary is under threat ā and what the European Union should do now.
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This is an under-appreciated point in much of the thinking about democratic backsliding - much of society continues as "normal" and many not actively participating in the cruelty will even benefit in some way.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usualāuntil they donāt.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/
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Verfassungsblog
11 months ago
What if a TikTok ban says more about empire than about safety? MARIE LAUR (
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) uncovers how the French TikTok ban in New Caledonia exposed colonial legacies at the heart of digital censorship and emergency powers.
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I have yet to read this carefully but I'm surprised the Meta Oversight Board allowed the display of the apartheid era South African flag. It's considered hate speech in SA and very few people would display if not to support apartheid.
www.oversightboard.com/decision/bun...
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Posts Displaying South Africaās Apartheid-Era Flag | Oversight Board
Following a review of two Facebook posts containing images of South Africaās 1928-1994 flag, the majority of the Board has upheld Metaās decisions to keep them up. They do not clearly advocate for exc...
https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/bun-e1ycxi7e/
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Ben Yong
12 months ago
1/7 Can the executive āsafeguardā the constitution? The UK Constitution Committee says yes, but I worry. The plural UK executive means this is unlikely. And if we want internal executive checks like the civil service to work, we need to strengthen them now. Trump 2.0 is a warning.
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Michael Bang Petersen
about 1 year ago
šØNEW ARTICLE šØ with Adam Peresman,
@honoratam.bsky.social
&
@thoruplars.bsky.social
We show that those often seen as most critical of research - populists! - have relatively *high* trust in scientists across šŗšø š¬š§ šØšæ š©š° & are willing to follow their advice:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A good explainer of the constitutional theory side of Trump
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about 1 year ago
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Tom Flynn
about 1 year ago
Call for papers!
@katyhayward.bsky.social
,
@anuragdeb.bsky.social
, Ewan Smith and I are organising a conference on parity of esteem as a constitutional principle at QUB on 9-10 April. We've a few slots for presenters left, so still time to submit an abstract!
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...
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Call for Papers - Conference: Parity of Esteem under the Good Friday Agreement and Beyond | Research | Queen's University Belfast
https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/mitchell-institute/news/CallforPapers-ConferenceParityofEsteemundertheGoodFridayAgreementandBeyond.html
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Jessie Blackbourn
about 1 year ago
Along with Stuart Macdonald and
@drkatyvaughan.bsky.social
, I am compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
. We already have a fantastic line up of contributors, but now we are looking for more!
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The one where Ben figures out Parliament's pronouns.
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about 1 year ago
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
about 1 year ago
Great piece by
@jonhenley.bsky.social
. I get to outline the vicious cycle of far right support. As mainstream parties move right on immigration, voters adjust their positions to the right, far-right support increases, mainstream parties move more to the right...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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āVicious cycleā: how far-right parties across Europe are cannibalising the centre right
Hardline agendas, especially on immigration, are copied by mainstream conservatives in vain effort to win back votes - but itās not working
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/01/vicious-cycle-far-right-parties-across-europe-are-inspiring-imitators
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Absolutely appallingā¦
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about 1 year ago
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Gaurav Mukherjee
about 1 year ago
On Friday, the US Supreme Court granted cert on an Oklahoma case about religious charter schools. In this post
@lpeblog.bsky.social
, I sketch the law & politics of the future of public education & the place of religion in our public life. A thread on the arguments š§µ
lpeproject.org/blog/america...
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Americaās First Religious Public School?
This past Friday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that concerns the first religious charter school in the United States. But this case is not merely about school choice or religious freedomā¦
https://lpeproject.org/blog/americas-first-religious-public-school/
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Cas Mudde
about 1 year ago
Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!
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I can think of worse ways to start the year than finding out that my work has been cited by the SA Constitutional Courtā¦
about 1 year ago
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Vanessa MacDonnell
about 1 year ago
My initial thoughts on the legal challenge to the Trudeau prorogation, now in blog form on
@verfassungsblog.de
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Vicente Valentim
about 1 year ago
However "crazy" we may find Elon Musk's recent behavior, part of what makes it dangerous is that he is *not* perceived as a "crazy far-right person". He has a reputational shield, built outside of politics, which makes him very well placed to influence voters who are not diehard extremists. 1/4
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TJ McIntyre
about 1 year ago
For all the big talk, Meta have subsequently clarified that there will be no changes to its EU systems for the time being. I think this is a signal that Zuckerberg will aim to preserve company value by complying with local law, leaving the fines, loss of revenue, reputational damage, etc. to Musk.
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David Rand
about 1 year ago
šØIn NaturešØ Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07942-8
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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ādramatically reduce censorshipā across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content
about 1 year ago
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A good read for those interested in how the constitution is under attack in Finlandā¦
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over 1 year ago
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TomƔs Daly - Call me Tom
over 1 year ago
ā”LAUNCH - RESISTING THREATS TO DEMOCRACY The word on everyone's mind is 'resistance'. How can institutions, politicians, civil society and citizens push back against wannabe authoritarians? Check out our new focus area on Demoptimism.
www.demoptimism.org/resisting-th...
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Resisting Threats ā Dem-Dec
RESISTING THREATS
https://www.demoptimism.org/resisting-threats
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If the AI says Iām a grandmother, then I guess Iām a grandmother.
over 1 year ago
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David Vitale
over 1 year ago
I am hiring a post-doc fellow to work with me on my new ESRC, T-AP project, "Open Constitutional Democracy", w/
@odileammann.bsky.social
& Michael Pal. It is a 2-year, full-time post, starting around 1 Apr 2025. Deadline to apply is 15 Dec 2024. Please share!
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Research Fellow (109616-1124) - University of Warwick
Title: Research Fellow (109616-1124). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
https://warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-1/appcentre-1/brand-4/xf-72eeedf2903e/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/2205-Research-Fellow-109616-1124/en-GB
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Intentional or not, imagining parallels with the non-fictional DA made for a fun thought experiment.
over 1 year ago
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Liz Hicks
over 1 year ago
Still trying to add to this - if you have any colleagues who you might want to add, tag them!
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Great interview on the Hungarian LGBTQI case before the CJEU
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over 1 year ago
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Starter packs are the authoritative reference works handbooks wish they were.
over 1 year ago
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Liz Hicks
over 1 year ago
Building a comparative constitutional law starter pack - let me know if youād like to be added!
go.bsky.app/LQqBn6D
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David Schraub
over 1 year ago
Hereās law.
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Aileen Kavanagh
over 1 year ago
Great to see some brilliant comparative constitutional law people arriving. Welcome
@democracytalk.bsky.social
@taniagroppi.bsky.social
@vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social
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@efieldingd.bsky.social
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Still finding my way around here ā¦
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