Stein Arne Brekke
@brekke.it
Political scientist doing a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in European integration and the judicial politics of the EU.
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What's the best textbook – or at least a decent one – on contemporary philosophy of social science?
@academicchatter @politicalscience @internationalrelations @philosophyofscience
@academicchatter @politicalscience @internationalrelations @philosophyofscience
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
What's the best textbook – or at least a decent one – on contemporary philosophy of social science?
@academicchatter @politicalscience @internationalrelations @philosophyofscience
@academicchatter @politicalscience @internationalrelations @philosophyofscience
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Because of the newest escalation by the US on Greenland, tariffs on those opposing annexation, a majority in the European Parliament is ready to block the US-EU trade agreement & call to activate the EU's 2023 Anti-Coercion mechanism. This would allow restrictions on 'intellectual property' […]
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eupolicy.social
January 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Because of the newest escalation by the US on Greenland, tariffs on those opposing annexation, a majority in the European Parliament is ready to block the US-EU trade agreement & call to activate the EU's 2023 Anti-Coercion mechanism. This would allow restrictions on 'intellectual property' […]
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Big news on the liability of Frontex and the burden of proof in cases of alleged pushbacks: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
curia.europa.eu
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Big news on the liability of Frontex and the burden of proof in cases of alleged pushbacks: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
RE: https://legal.social/@verfassungsblog/115718308528989450
There's not much reason for optimism about international politics these days, but here's at least some good news about the #eu Court of Justice: it turns out the #ECJ is more dedicated to individual rights than anything else, in spite […]
There's not much reason for optimism about international politics these days, but here's at least some good news about the #eu Court of Justice: it turns out the #ECJ is more dedicated to individual rights than anything else, in spite […]
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eupolicy.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
RE: https://legal.social/@verfassungsblog/115718308528989450
There's not much reason for optimism about international politics these days, but here's at least some good news about the #eu Court of Justice: it turns out the #ECJ is more dedicated to individual rights than anything else, in spite […]
There's not much reason for optimism about international politics these days, but here's at least some good news about the #eu Court of Justice: it turns out the #ECJ is more dedicated to individual rights than anything else, in spite […]
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We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!
Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!
Interesting piece from Joachim Baumann and co-authors about replacing humans with LLMs for text annotation for academic purposes. Replicating a handful of published social science studies they find that "with just a handful of prompt paraphrases, virtually anything can be presented as […]
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eupolicy.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Interesting piece from Joachim Baumann and co-authors about replacing humans with LLMs for text annotation for academic purposes. Replicating a handful of published social science studies they find that "with just a handful of prompt paraphrases, virtually anything can be presented as […]
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I'm teaching my judicial politics module at UCL again this term which means that I'm keen on new resources for students. In particular, let me know if you published a dataset on courts/judicial politics/legal mobilization and it is not yet listed here: michalovadek.github.io/judicial-pol...
Data resources – POLS0113: Judicial Politics
michalovadek.github.io
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm teaching my judicial politics module at UCL again this term which means that I'm keen on new resources for students. In particular, let me know if you published a dataset on courts/judicial politics/legal mobilization and it is not yet listed here: michalovadek.github.io/judicial-pol...
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The take-home message: Overall, mobilization against EU legislation, implementation, and enforcement is growing, but the salience and polarisation of the respective Court proceedings depends on how much authority the EU wielded in these domains in different […]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The take-home message: Overall, mobilization against EU legislation, implementation, and enforcement is growing, but the salience and polarisation of the respective Court proceedings depends on how much authority the EU wielded in these domains in different […]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
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In "Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU", @jonasbornemann.bsky.social and I ask a simple question. Does the transfer of authority to EU institutions shape Member States' (MS) legal contestation before the Court of Justice of the EU? We […]
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eupolicy.social
August 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In "Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU", @jonasbornemann.bsky.social and I ask a simple question. Does the transfer of authority to EU institutions shape Member States' (MS) legal contestation before the Court of Justice of the EU? We […]
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I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social looking at immigration rulings in the UK (doi.org/10.1080/0140...). It's a short read, but the two main findings are:
1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is
2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is
2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom
Almost all studies of judicial behaviour and diversity conceptualise judges’ race and gender as independent, additive variables. Specifically, black and female judges are often seen as more liberal...
doi.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social looking at immigration rulings in the UK (doi.org/10.1080/0140...). It's a short read, but the two main findings are:
1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is
2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is
2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
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#hungary is violating #eu law by cracking down on #lgbtq+ content children might be exposed to, a top adviser at the European Union’s highest court @Curia said on Thursday.
Hungary “has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional #democracy,” the Advocate General Ćapeta found […]
Hungary “has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional #democracy,” the Advocate General Ćapeta found […]
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June 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#hungary is violating #eu law by cracking down on #lgbtq+ content children might be exposed to, a top adviser at the European Union’s highest court @Curia said on Thursday.
Hungary “has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional #democracy,” the Advocate General Ćapeta found […]
Hungary “has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional #democracy,” the Advocate General Ćapeta found […]
It's a good day for obscure international courts, as the often neglected EFTA Court made front-page news in Norway over its judgment in 'Norwegian State v Greenpeace Nordic'.
The head of #Greenpeace is quoted calling the court "the most important tribunal #norway must deal with as an EEA country".
The head of #Greenpeace is quoted calling the court "the most important tribunal #norway must deal with as an EEA country".
May 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's a good day for obscure international courts, as the often neglected EFTA Court made front-page news in Norway over its judgment in 'Norwegian State v Greenpeace Nordic'.
The head of #Greenpeace is quoted calling the court "the most important tribunal #norway must deal with as an EEA country".
The head of #Greenpeace is quoted calling the court "the most important tribunal #norway must deal with as an EEA country".
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For this week in EU politics, Hungary's Viktor Orban backs the losing anti-Hungarian nationalist candidate in Romanian presidential elections and therefore incurs the wrath of a winning Romanian pro-EU coalition that includes the Hungarian minority's UDMR party
May 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
For this week in EU politics, Hungary's Viktor Orban backs the losing anti-Hungarian nationalist candidate in Romanian presidential elections and therefore incurs the wrath of a winning Romanian pro-EU coalition that includes the Hungarian minority's UDMR party
This Sunday, presidential elections offer #poland a chance to finally rid the Law and Justice party from power. For the Court of Justice, this would mean the end a long standing but rarely discussed blockage of judicial appointments: https://brekke.it/?p=content&id=2024-11-18-Polish_non-appointments
Polish non-appointments
For years, Poland has refused to appoint judges to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In this blog post, I investigate what is going on with the lack of Polish appointments to the CJEU.
brekke.it
May 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This Sunday, presidential elections offer #poland a chance to finally rid the Law and Justice party from power. For the Court of Justice, this would mean the end a long standing but rarely discussed blockage of judicial appointments: https://brekke.it/?p=content&id=2024-11-18-Polish_non-appointments
As a political scientist dabbling with EU law, it is often painfully clear that lawyers are needed to make sense of certain legal concepts.
Thankfully my #EUI co-authors just finished hand-coding more than 3000 CJEU judgments, all open access!
https://doi.org/10.1177/2755323X251337809
Thankfully my #EUI co-authors just finished hand-coding more than 3000 CJEU judgments, all open access!
https://doi.org/10.1177/2755323X251337809
May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As a political scientist dabbling with EU law, it is often painfully clear that lawyers are needed to make sense of certain legal concepts.
Thankfully my #EUI co-authors just finished hand-coding more than 3000 CJEU judgments, all open access!
https://doi.org/10.1177/2755323X251337809
Thankfully my #EUI co-authors just finished hand-coding more than 3000 CJEU judgments, all open access!
https://doi.org/10.1177/2755323X251337809
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With over half the votes counted Finland's far-right party seems to have collapsed at the local level, down to less than half of its 2021 vote.
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
With over half the votes counted Finland's far-right party seems to have collapsed at the local level, down to less than half of its 2021 vote.
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made a few small updates to my assembly line of automated data trackers, from national vetoes of EU action to predicting the CJEU's caseload this year. All the links can be permanently accessed from here:
michalovadek.github.io/tools.html
any suggestions are welcome
michalovadek.github.io/tools.html
any suggestions are welcome
March 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
made a few small updates to my assembly line of automated data trackers, from national vetoes of EU action to predicting the CJEU's caseload this year. All the links can be permanently accessed from here:
michalovadek.github.io/tools.html
any suggestions are welcome
michalovadek.github.io/tools.html
any suggestions are welcome
Late last summer, following a change of staff, I was asked to coordinate the master's programme in EU politics at Uni of Copenhagen. This included creating a specialization course, which is how I ended up exposing a whole bunch of unsuspecting master's students to the judicial politics of the EU.
January 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Late last summer, following a change of staff, I was asked to coordinate the master's programme in EU politics at Uni of Copenhagen. This included creating a specialization course, which is how I ended up exposing a whole bunch of unsuspecting master's students to the judicial politics of the EU.
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PhD and postdoc opportunities at GU https://www.mothugg.se/2025/01/06/phd-and-postdoc-opportunities-at-the-university-of-gothenburg/
PhD and postdoc opportunities at GU
<p>We are currently recruiting several PhD candidates and postdocs at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg:</p>
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<li><a href="https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=35739">4-5 PhD candidates in Political Science</a> (30 January 2025).</li>
<li><a href="https://bit.ly/PhDdemocracyHR">PhD candidate specialising in democracy and human rights</a> (31 January 2025).</li>
<li><a href="https://bit.ly/PhDESSGeopoliticalFarmers">PhD candidate in Environmental Social Science with focus on farmers as geopolitical actors</a> (17 February 2025).</li>
<li><a href="https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=36260">PhD candidate in Social Anthropology with focus on health & medical anthropology</a> (17 February 2025).</li>
<li><a href="https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=36054">PhD candidate in Sociology</a> (17 February 2025).</li>
<li><a href="https://bit.ly/EuroPostdocGU">Postdoc in European Studies (1-3 positions)</a> (27 February 2025).</li>
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