Edward Pérez

@edwardjperez.bsky.social

PhD candidate Public Law Graduate Lecturer UCL Laws Human Rights, Cats and Chigüires

@constlstudies.bsky.social is relaunching as an international, multilingual, and open-access journal! I'm happy to join as Associate Editor for this new stage. The journal will accept contributions in English, Spanish, and French. The first issue will be available later this June.

Constitutional Studies@constlstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law. First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!

Fantastic discussion with Alina Shchetinina on art and its tensions with trade marks! 3 takeaways: (1)Trade mark law should include free speech standards; (2)artistic expression should be protected from onerous litigation; (3)the potential of art can be achieved if free from fear from litigation.

Natalia Morales Cerda@nataliamoralesc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday we closed a fantastic term of the WPF PhD students seminar at @ucllaws.bsky.social 🎉 Alina Shchetinina presenting on trade marks, freedom of expression and autonomy, and @edwardjperez.bsky.social as a discussant.

A sentença da @CorteIDH, divulgada hoje (4) condenando o Brasil pelo desaparecimento forçado de 11 jovens negros moradores da favela de Acari, na cidade do Rio, em 1990, traz aspectos contundentes no enfrentamento à violência policial. (Foto: Alaor Filho)

Foto de manifestação das Mães de Acari

South Korea going full El Salvador now. In El Salvador (2020), though, the president -after surrounding and taking over the Legislature building- refrained from dissolving Congress. One year later, he took control over it through a major parliamentarian win of his party.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

A chaotic scene was playing out at South Korea’s legislative building in Seoul as police and soldiers tried to prevent people from entering the building early Wednesday, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law.

The IACtHR has just issued a major judgment on political rights in fraudulent elections in the Capriles v. Venezuela case. The case concerns rights violations during the 2013 Venezuelan presidential election, in which there were strong allegations of fraud to the detriment of Mr. Capriles.