Pathways to Constitutional Legitimacy in Asia Pacific Edited by Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, Jaclyn Neo, Benjamin Lawrence and Kentaro Matsubara This Open Access title is free to read / download on Elgaronline doi.org/10.4337/9781... Available in print on our website www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

"You sacrificed the Queen in the opening?! This is madness!" "Madness? You began with the Caro-Kann. Refused my Queen's Gambit. Forced me into the Panov. Oh I've chosen me moves well, Lazavik... Madness? THIS. IS. MAGNUS!" youtu.be/izJlg8TEu0g?...

Magnus Carlsen SACRIFICED His QUEEN on Move 10 in a WILD EWC Final

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Andrew Harding. Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia

This book splendidly fills not so much a gap as a void in constitutional scholarship. A recent survey of Local Government Studies, a leading journal in the

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man. The brilliant translator of the Iliad and the Odyssey's review of Nolan's IMAX blockbuster share.google/xp1r7d8Ru4x8...

Beach and pragmatism

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The Board of Editorial Consultants is composed of faculty members, scholars, and legal practitioners with recognized expertise in various fields of law. The Editorial Consultants serve as an internati...

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Complimentary copies just arrived! I wrote chapter 7: "Where's the party? The tragic flaw of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution". This will be freely available soon at www.elgaronline.com/view/book/97... . For more info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/pat...

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Many wealthy countries today were poor or devastated after World War 2. Their postwar generation invested in their country instead of corrupting it. Politicians who really care about their children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren wouldn't steal from the People but serve them

I wish corrupt politicians would realize that the middle class in a working democracy live far better lives than the elite in a dysfunctional oligarchy. You don't need a fancy car in a walkable city with a good metro. You don't need to be filthy rich in a wealthy welfare state.

My latest publication, coauthored with @pstamase.bsky.social : Proportionality's Potential in the Philippines - a chapter in The Principle of Proportionality in Asia, Europe, and North America (2026) www.giappichelli.it/the-principl...

The Principle of Proportionality in Asia, Europe, and North America

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Art Collab with my 5 year old daughter. I did the pencils of hello kitty & she did everything else.

Proud husband post: Rebecka sharing her diplomatic journey on the Swedish Government's website. www.regeringen.se/artiklar/202...

Viljan att utforma och bidra till vår framtid

Rebecka Koziomtzis har arbetat på UD i två och ett halvt år och gick diplomatprogrammet under vårterminen 2025. Till hösten är det dags för hennes...

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Cool Stockholm metro detail my son noticed: Pacman being chased by the ghosts (with one ghost far behind)

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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Supreme Court in 2025: Rulings that shaped jurisprudence

While some of these cases carried significant political weight, others will have a direct impact on everyday lives.

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Full moon @utokyoofficial.bsky.social

Carlsberg should probably be the beer of choice of academics...

I love working at the office. @utokyoofficial.bsky.social

Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change. This is @pstamase.bsky.social & my chapter for Ngoc Son Bui & Mara Malagodi (eds), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Vol 2: Constitutional Amendments (Hart 2024) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein

What I'm reading for an academic freedom & comparative constitutional studies paper: the intellectual process of Einstein, Newton, and other Physicists

Nice day to work outside

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Senators: Sara Duterte impeachment court to proceed despite SC order

[Updated July 25, 2025, 9:31 p.m.] MANILA, Philippines — Senators on Friday said the impeachment court against Vice President Sara Duterte would still proceed even after a Supreme Court (SC)

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big fan of LPE but feel weird about the Project's association with Yale/it being grant-funded? well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot) give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!

Just published:Journal of Japanese Law (@maxplancklaw.bsky.social ) special issue on Comparative Political Process Theory. These are the Japanese author papers from the 2023 conference at @utokyoofficial.bsky.social organized by our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...

Beer with legal historians in between conference events at Hungary. We missed you @fernandapirie.bsky.social . I'm sorry to hear about your luggage.

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China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official says | CNN

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention...

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