Happening today at 1:45 pm in Continental C for those of you at #ISA2025

Nina Reiners@ninareiners.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi #ISA2025! Please join us today to celebrate and discuss Leah R. Kimber's new book, a sociological analysis highlighting the increased exclusion of civil society despite their apparent inclusion in global governance institutions 🇺🇳 It's available OA: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/civil-societ...

"Where is our outcry?" Two German universities have recently canceled events featuring UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. ISABEL FEICHTNER writes in a letter to international law scholars in Germany: time to speak up! verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our...

📙 It’s actually out: the volume "Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects" edited by Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar! It explores the current conditions of asylum, migration governance and rights/rightlessness at state borders.

What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial

Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

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The President of South Korea holds immunity privileges; however, these privileges do not apply to charges of insurrection. This is a constitutional safeguard that South Korea adopted after experiencing multiple coups.

Dana Burchardt's @kfgintlaw.bsky.social and my book on the Rule of Law in Germany @hartpublishing.bsky.social's Rule of Law in Context series will be published Jan 9 - have a look here www.bloomsbury.com/us/978150996...

The Rule of Law in Germany

The rule of law, or Rechtsstaatsprinzip, is one of Germany's oldest constitutional principles and forms part of Germany's constitutional self-understanding. Thi…

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🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website. Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs. Please share. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

"Unsere Würde in Euren Händen" - ein starkes, persönliches Editorial von @isabilgen.bsky.social Er, vor 13 J. eingebürgert, soll unbesorgt bleiben, "wenn heute Teile der AfD mit der Vertreibung von Menschen fantasieren, die ihnen nicht Deutsch genug sind"? verfassungsblog.de/unsere-wurde... 1/

Unsere Würde in Euren Händen

Warum nicht nur die Verfassung, sondern Millionen Menschen in Gefahr sind.

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Die beiden heute in Bayern gewählten AfD-Richter sind übrigens schon seit 2018 am VerfGH auf Vorschlag der AfD Richter. Auch in einigen anderen Bundesländern gibt es Richter an den Landesverfassungsgerichten, die von der AfD vorgeschlagen wurden. Neu ist nur,dass das bundesweit Aufmerksamkeit erhält

DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · 3y ago

Am Bayerischen Verfassungsgerichtshof werden von der AfD vorgeschlagene ehrenamtliche Richter tätig sein. Der Landtag war in der Frage uneins – gegen die Ablehnung einzelner Kandidaten gab es rechtliche Bedenken.

The ceasefire resolution passes UNGA, 153-10-23

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3y ago

UNGA will vote on a ceasefire resolution today at 3pm. The text is nearly identical to the draft resolution the US vetoed at the Security Council last week. Resolutions at UNGA are non-binding but pass via simple majority and no one can veto. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG6z... .

📢Did you hear? The 2024 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Papers is out! Looking forward to seeing you in #Madrid🇪🇸at IE Law School on July 8-10 to discuss "The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence" ➡ www.icon-society.org/icon-s-annua...

Frage an die Rechtswissenschafts-Bubble: Ich suche Dissertationen/Habilitationen oder sonstige größere Monographien (nicht älter als zehn Jahre) zum verfassungsrechtlichen Rechtsprechungsbegriff und zur richterlichen Unabhängigkeit (Art. 92, 97 GG). Wer hat Empfehlungen?

Our edited volume with Nico Krisch is now available with #openaccess thanks to generous support from the European Research Council. Currently, open access is limited to certain regions. Here are instructions to access the entire book, no matter where you are. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Extremely divided EU... 4 against, 14 abstentions, 9 in favour

If you're interested in constitutional assistance, have a look at @annasaunders.bsky.social exciting article and the symposium discussing her work. I wrote on UN constitutional assistance in Namibia, dating back to the 1960s.

Anna Saunders@annasaunders.bsky.social · 3y ago

UN action in Namibia and enduring questions of imposition (@hbirk.bsky.social); experimentalism as a path to constitutional pluralism (Bojan Bugarič); and social democratic constitutionalism and the politics of legal space (David Dyzenhaus).

AJIL event next Friday w Dr. Alejandro Chehtman, Dr. Janina Dill, Prof. Adil Haque, Prof. Steven Ratner, & moderated by Prof. Ingrid Brunk on what we can hope or expect from int'l law in moments of profound crisis. @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Please share widely! Open letter by Israeli international law experts: The taking of hostages is a blatant violation of international law. We call for the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages. Pending their release, they are all entitled to be treated with humanity & respect. >>