It's publication day for the 5th edition of the European Union Law textbook edited by Catherine Barnard and me! Thanks as always to my co-editor, the brilliant contributors and the OUP production team global.oup.com/ukhe/product...
This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
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Gender equality is a value in Art. 2 TEU – but it is nearly absent in the CJEU’s Commission v Hungary. @silviasteininger.bsky.social & SEONA KIM apply a feminist re-reading to the Court's arguments and ask what a non-patriarchal European society would actually require. buff.ly/sn5U9qP @mpil.de
Take a walk on the dark side of European society: @silviasteininger.bsky.social and @jennyos.bsky.social on who is (and who is not) recognised. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Decolonising European Society | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Decolonising European Society
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Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:
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SUPREME COURT: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. 6-3
270+ articles, open access, and growing: our new Law and Climate Spotlight is here! We've been covering climate law for years at @verfassungsblog.de – advisory opinions, transnational litigation, domestic & int'l governance, and more. Now it's all in one place 🥳 verfassungsblog.de/law-and-clim...
I have a chapter in this book on the (constitutional) effect of Brexit on Scotland. I'm sure it will surprise no-one that I don't think it has been good: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026
Cambridge Core - British Government, Politics and Policy - The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026
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NEW from me for @immcouncil.org's blog. Today the Supreme Court issued two major decisions in immigration cases, on Temporary Protected States and on "turn-backs" of asylum seekers at the border. Here's a top-level summary of what you need to know: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/supreme...
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip TPS, Turn Away Asylum Seekers Arriving at the Border in Pair of New Immigration Rulings - American Immigration Council
The Supreme Court issued two seismic immigration law decisions, ruling 6-3 in the Trump administration’s favor in a TPS and an asylum case.
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Read my full speech at the @coe.int Foreign Affairs Meeting in Chișinău👇 #CMCoEChisinau2026 #CM135Chisinau #HumanRights #ECHR #StandWithUkraine #Accountability 3/3 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...
Colin Murray: Hollowing out Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Rights Protections in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15
The Good and Faithful Servants One of the foundational assertions of judicial approaches to legislation in the UK comes from Willes J in Lee v Bude and Torrington Railway Co: We sit here as servant…
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Council of Europe countries adopt Chisinau declaration on ECHR and migration www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
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Wonderful to see this comment on the Italy-Albania Protocol, together with Eleonora Frasca out with @verfassungsblog.de.
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · 3mo agoLitigating Externalisation under the Italy-Albania Protocol: JONAS BORNEMANN and ELEONORA FRASCA on AG Emiliou’s Opinion in the Sedrata case — and how the CJEU may be lowering the legal threshold for offshore migration processing under EU law. verfassungsblog.de/litigating-e...
It’s #EuropeDay! 🇪🇺✨ 📜 On 9 May 1950, the Schuman Declaration laid the foundations for today’s European Union. 76 years on, the #CJEU ensures that #EUlaw is interpreted and applied uniformly across all Member States. 🤝 #SchumanDeclaration #Justice #RuleOfLaw
Why does the Court of Justice of the EU Exist?
The Court of Justice of the European Union is the judicial body of the EU. Its role is to ensure that EU laws are respected by the EU’s institutions and Member States and applied in the same way…
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The proposed EU Return Regulation would massively expand detention – and de facto criminalise migrants seeking asylum. RHEA KUMMER (@rheakummer.bsky.social) exposes where the draft violates the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. verfassungsblog.de/eu-return-re...
EU law legal history - New interesting and recent book spotted today in a bookshop which explores the intense struggle over the emergence of a constitutional practice www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
CJEU/Preliminary reference matters - Recent and insightful analysis of interest -'Fairness or Uniformity: The Real Basis of the Duty to Give Reasons in Remling'. www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/apoysqlf...
Fairness or Uniformity: The Real Basis of the Duty to Give Reasons in Remling
This post argues that the ECJ's duty to give specific reasons when declining a preliminary reference, confirmed in Remling (C-767/23), is grounded in Article 47 CFREU's right to a fair trial - not, as...
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My Bluesky has been very quiet, which I’m going to try to rectify… Part of the reason is that I have been finishing my next book The Governance of Migration in the EU. It will be out with OUP later in the year, with some Portuguese art on the cover.
🎙️ A new podcast series by the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the Council of Europe. 🟢 The European Court of Human Rights: An Irish Perspective 🎧 Listen to the first episode: www.ireland.ie/en/coe/europ...
🇵🇱 🦘"Constitutional Court" update: For 1st time ever tbomk in relation to any country, the ECtHR has provisionally ordered national authorities (in this case, the anti-rule of law 🇵🇱President) to stop “from hindering the taking up and exercise of judicial duties by the applicants as judges" of the CCt
The CJEU sees the Hungarian anti-LGBTIQ* law as stigmatisation that may foster hateful conduct and thus violates European values. ARMIN VON BOGDANDY and LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER argue that with this decision, the Court advances European society. verfassungsblog.de/the-red-line...
For the first time, the CJEU applied Article 2 TEU as an autonomous review standard. LENA KAISER (lenasophiek.bsky.social) sees it as "heavy artillery with light reasoning" and rejoins Benedikt Riedl’s critical analysis. verfassungsblog.de/heavy-artill...
Comparing recent CJEU and European Court of Human Rights case law on pushbacks and pullbacks - by Prof. Jean-Yves Carlier and Dr. Eleonora Frasca eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/04/time...
Time to ring the Bell: Luxembourg’s Light on Pushbacks, Strasbourg’s Shadow on Pullbacks
On Frontex’s Operational Powers, Allocation of Responsibility for Fundamental Rights Violations and Fragmented Justice By Prof. Jean-Y...
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Court of Justice of the EU/EU values - New and insightful EU law live podcast out on the recent and ground breaking Commission v Hungary case and Article 2 TEU (by von Bogdandy and Maduro) eulawlive.com/podcast/a-vo...
Is detention of migrants and asylum-seekers under the Italy/Albania deal compatible with EU law? Analysis of a recent Advocate-General's opinion, by Dr @andreinadeleo.bsky.social eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
The Fiction of Non-Entry Meets the Fiction of Remaining: AG Emiliou in Sedrata
Andreina De Leo * , Post-doctoral researcher, Maastricht University * Funded by the European Union (ERC, SoftEn project, 1011651...
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Recent piece from the Guardian’s ‘Cotton Capital’ series discussing learning points on #repair & #enslavement, and a plan based on ~3 years of engagement with descendants, #reparations experts, civil society organisations, academics and cultural leaders. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found
Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation
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Interesting read today on the recent UN General Assembly Resolution on Enslavement on @ejiltalk.bsky.social; the UK and all 27 EU Member States abstained www.ejiltalk.org/analysing-ob...
Analysing Objections to the UN Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans
On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution A/80/L.48 titled “Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest ...
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So, some reflections prompted by the combination of the launch tonight of the 1926 Irish Census exhibition at the British Academy and Suella Braverman's comments earlier in the Telegraph on the teaching of a 'patriotic curriculum' under a prospective Reform government. 1/6 #Skystorians
Ireland’s Census 1926 Exhibition Tour to Arrive in London Following Release of Historic Records
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