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Bo Tiojanco

@botiojanco.bsky.social

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Family man. Lives in Sweden. Teaches Transnational Law & Political Economy at the University of Tokyo. Writes on Constitutional Law. Graduated from Yale Law School and the University of the Philippines.

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Nov 25

A Third World Approach to Comparative Constitutional Law? Here's my first jab at it.
@globcon.bsky.social a love letter to Akhil Amar's Reading the Constitution course at Yale Law School that @gautambhatia88.bsky.social & I took. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

John Hart Ely would disown Comparative Political Process Theory, Dobbs, and most his other intellectual heirs (or maybe not) | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core

John Hart Ely would disown Comparative Political Process Theory, Dobbs, and most his other intellectual heirs (or maybe not)

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 23h

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

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 1d

Moved to a new spot at the office

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 1d

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)

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Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change

<p>This chapter explains why the 1987 Philippine Constitution remains unamended despite repeated attempts. It advances three related arguments: first, although

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 6d

I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 7d

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

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 22d

Nice day to work outside

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jul 26

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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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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 !!

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jul 14

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
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Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht

Die 1996 gegründete Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law versteht sich als internationales Periodikum für in- und ausländische Wissenschaftler und Praktiker mit Interesse am jap...

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jul 5

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

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jul 5

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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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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jun 9

Last note to the kids before flying to Tokyo

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jun 8

our special issue of @globcon.bsky.social is finally out! The New Comparative Political Process Theory

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Global Constitutionalism: Volume 14 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 2

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Jun 7

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · May 23

The thesis I'm supervising cites "Usher (2015)" leading my brain to suddenly play "You Make me Wanna" in my head

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Apr 30

“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Apr 14

Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro.

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Apr 14

When I'm in Tokyo working at the office is better than working from home

Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · Apr 9

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Ros Dixon's essential introduction to the special issue!

Courts and comparative representation-reinforcing theory | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core

Courts and comparative representation-reinforcing theory

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Apr 8

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport people under an 18th century wartime law. However, it stipulated that those subject to law are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime Law