My own private Idaho.
Qatari style

For us non-native speakers, the association between con artists and con law begins to become apparent

🌹 "Democratic socialism and the law" is the topic of my inaugural lecture - next Wednesday 6.30pm, Great Hall, King's College, London.

➡️ Come along! There's even a reception afterwards. Check out the abstract, and register free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

Let us know when you do 😀

Cool photos!
Are you exhibiting?

For context:
www.academia.edu/22225287/Dem...

It's funny how people believe that *more courts* will protect us from authoritarianism.
What we need is *less rich people* instead.
Liberal democracies would operate best if we could kill the rich. Since we cannot, we should strip them off of any political right.
Make their money illegal in politics

My new essay (with Bojan Bugaric): “How long can judicial resistance last when it is to come from unelected lower court judges, if it comes at all? We believe that the momentary flurry of judicial activity is fool’s gold.”

A member of the Greek Parliament being detained by Israeli defense forces with no reaction whatsoever by the Hellenic "Republic", incl. GR Parliament itself, is proof enough that the latter is but a sham institute, only there to rubber-stamp autocratization.

So much for "parliamentary" democracy

Just saying it's Greece's problem. Not the EU's business.

No other member state prohibits (or, at least, used to prohibit) private universities.
No other member state denies access to a large part of the country to its (and EU's) half population.

So what?
Since when did the EU become the MS constitutions' modernizer?

Only immunity of MEPs can be lifted in (and by) the EP.
Not of MPs or cabinet members of member states

Unpopular:
EU officials have no right whatsoever to debate member states' constitutions --let alone push, even indirectly, for their amendment.
There is a myriad other failures & shortcomings in #Greece's both legal & judicial as well as political systems that Ms #Kovesi could bring to the fore

I'm old enough to remember when American legal theory's main concern was whether government has the power to impose on people an obligation to eat brocoli

At least Blair had the sensitivity (probably the only one he ever had) to name his right-wing radical centrism "New Labour" (not to be associated with Labour --or labour, for that matter)

No. That's not radical rhetoric.
Defund the streets-building and automobile industries.
Defund the "defense" industry.
Defund the police and surveillance industries.
Defund big: money, data, media, entertainment, capital.

*That's* a radical rhetoric

It's so refreshing to know that punk rock is alive and kicking!

(Why did it take me so long to discover this gem?)

youtu.be/j58V2vC9EPc?...

Beyond repair means it'll only get worse until we radically change it

#LiberalDemocracy is broken beyond repair.
If we want our polities to remain (really) liberal and democratic, we need to radically and drastically minimize the role of big money in politics, media and public life.
#Courts are the major obstacle to any attempt in #democratising work and society

"The words of the Constitution do mean what they mean".

Just don't tell the Greek Council of State and Greek "constitutional" lawyers which are adamant that they, sometimes, mean the exact opposite of what they mean.

#UnConstitutionalLaw
#PlutocraticConstitutionalLaw
#Greece
#Article16

The fact that no member of the political elites has ever --ever-- been convicted while in office seems to be an inherent limitation of what the judiciary pompuously (and self-aggrandizingly) prefer to call judicial independence

#Sarkozy

#Sarkozy is a reminder that nowhere in Europe enjoy the political elites the level of immunity (and impunity) they do in #Greece.
It is also a harsh realization of how failed the Greek judiciary is.
#FailedJudiciary

Unless it is clearly established that corporations are not persons, the whole constitutional rights edifice is a joke, and substantially contributes to the grossly unequal distribution of wealth, power, and -yes...- rights

#CorporationsAreNotPersons