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Ziel 1 erreicht. ❤️ Danke!

Seit Oktober haben uns 804 Spender*innen mit über 218.000 Euro unterstützt. Das ist nicht selbstverständlich. Das ist Vertrauen und Wertschätzung unserer Arbeit, die uns sehr motiviert.

Was wir damit 2026 vorhaben im 🧵
218.787 € SEIT OKTOBER 804 SPENDER*INNEN 251 DAUERAUFTRAGE 1ZIEL ERREICHT Viele, viele Menschen haben uns in den letzten Monaten unterstützt. Vom Kaffeegroschen bis zur Großspende war alles dabei. Und jede Spende hilft. Ihre Unterstützung ist Rückenwind für den Verfassungsblog. Wir bedanken uns! Text für Text.
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A multipolar world is unsettling long-standing asymmetries — and legal knowledge production is beginning to feel this shift, too.

We are launching a new blog symposium on "reflexive globalisation and the law", introduced by PHILIPP DANN and FLORIAN JEßBERGER:

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Quote: “Northern premises of concepts, vocabularies and epistemic certainties are questioned across multiple fields.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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"It is at the very least inconsistent to warn against rule of law regression and violations while failing to police one’s own membership. We are where we are because too many in senior positions who had and have the power to act have failed to do so."

Important piece by Bodnar and Pech:
Immunising the Venice Commission Against Autocratic Contamination
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February 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Immunising the Venice Commission against autocratic contamination.

ADAM BODNAR and LAURENT PECH (@profpech.bsky.social) on compromised appointments and missing accountability mechanisms in a rule-of-law institution – and why urgent institutional reform is needed.

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Quote: It is at the very least inconsistent to warn against rule of law regression and violations while failing to police one’s own membership.
February 5, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our thoughts.
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With military options reportedly off the table, NATO and the United States are now discussing the creation of sovereign US bases in Greenland.

MARKUS GEHRING & NASIA HADJIGEORGIOU explain why such sovereignty carve-outs would violate international law.

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Quote: “In twenty-first-century international law, carving out a sovereign enclave, ‘forever’ as President Trump called it, constitutes multiple breaches of international law.”
February 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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My latest @verfassungsblog.de post co-authored this time with Adam Bodnar and for once, dedicated to a non-EU body: The European Commission for Democracy through Law - better known as the Venice Commission

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Immunising the Venice Commission Against Autocratic Contamination
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February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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The CJEU does not allow non-governmental organizations to bring cases in the public interest.

KATARZYNA SZEPELAK & MACIEJ KUŁAK argue the Treaties enable a different reading – and the Court should change its practice accordingly.

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February 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Can a Dutch court refuse extradition to Romania over a minimum seven-year sentence for possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use?

EMILIA SANDRI unpacks the AG’s Opinion in the Tagu case, the two-step test, and the EU Charter proportionality exception.

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The test’s protective strength seems to vary depending on the fundamental right at stake, which might decrease legal certainty and risk arbitrary prioritisations.
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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With military options reportedly off the table, NATO and the United States are now discussing the creation of sovereign US bases in Greenland.

MARKUS GEHRING & NASIA HADJIGEORGIOU explain why such sovereignty carve-outs would violate international law.

verfassungsblog.de/why-us-sover...
Quote: “In twenty-first-century international law, carving out a sovereign enclave, ‘forever’ as President Trump called it, constitutes multiple breaches of international law.”
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Ziel 1 erreicht. ❤️ Danke!

Seit Oktober haben uns 804 Spender*innen mit über 218.000 Euro unterstützt. Das ist nicht selbstverständlich. Das ist Vertrauen und Wertschätzung unserer Arbeit, die uns sehr motiviert.

Was wir damit 2026 vorhaben im 🧵
218.787 € SEIT OKTOBER 804 SPENDER*INNEN 251 DAUERAUFTRAGE 1ZIEL ERREICHT Viele, viele Menschen haben uns in den letzten Monaten unterstützt. Vom Kaffeegroschen bis zur Großspende war alles dabei. Und jede Spende hilft. Ihre Unterstützung ist Rückenwind für den Verfassungsblog. Wir bedanken uns! Text für Text.
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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The US intervention in Venezuela marks more than another breach of international law.

HELMUT PHILIPP AUST, CLAUS KREß, and HEIKE KRIEGER on the US government’s descent into lawlessness — and its consequences for the global legal order

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Quote: “Germany and the other European states cannot afford to abandon international law – and the international legal order cannot be preserved with only selective commitment to it.”
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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Von personalisierter Werbung zur staatlichen Verfolgung.

Die US-Behörde ICE will Ad-Tech- und Big-Data-Tools privater Unternehmen nutzen.

Das ist brandgefährlich, meinen RAINER MÜHLHOFF & HANNAH RUSCHEMEIER – und zeigen, warum es eine klare Zweckbindung braucht.

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Zitat: Hier verbindet sich eine weitgehend unregulierte private Daten- und Vorhersagemacht mit hoheitlichen Zwangsbefugnissen.
February 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Dazu jetzt unsere Analyse ( @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social )
auf @verfassungsblog.de

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February 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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In late 2025, a Peruvian municipality recognized legal rights for stingless bees. 🐝

EVA BERNET KEMPERS (evabernetkempers.bsky.social) explains why the case shows that animal rights are taking shape in law very differently from “ideal” academic theories.

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Quote from the piece by Eva Bernet Kempers: "The ‘real’ animal rights in legislation have little to do with the ‘ideal’ animal rights on which most animal law scholarship has focused until now.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Im vergangenen Jahr wurde Bündnis 90/Die Grünen vorgeworfen, in Berlin einen Wahlkreis zu ihren Gunsten zugeschnitten zu haben.

Obwohl Gerrymandering hierzulande noch die Ausnahme ist, sollten die rechtlichen Maßstäbe nachgeschärft werden, so FABIAN BUNSCHUH.

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Zitat aus unserem neuesten Beitrag von Fabian Bunschuh: „Wenn der Bundestag die Expertise der Wahlkreiskommission einbeziehen und Abweichungen hiervon gut begründen muss, kann dies parteipolitisch motivierten Verzerrungen des Wahlsystems vorbeugen und so das Vertrauen in das Wahlverfahren stärken.“
February 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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"For many commentators, the present moment in Minneapolis appears as rupture. But for those who have long experienced constitutional “normalcy” as a site of vulnerability rather than protection, naming the moment as crisis was already beside the point."
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From Minneapolis, what many describe as a constitutional crisis looks very different on the ground.

EMMANUEL MAULEÓN on racialised suspicion, the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections, and the shift of state violence from the margins to the center.

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Quote: “What is newly visible to some through Operation Metro Surge has long been lived by others. The elasticity of constitutional standards and the racialized logics that structure immigration enforcement are not new.”
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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For the Outstanding Women Project, LILIAN LANGER (lilianlanger.bsky.social) revisits the life of Rosa Luxemburg – her extraordinary intellect, personal courage, and the brutal death that sealed her place in political memory.

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February 2, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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"Fixating on naming the tipping point [constitutional crisis or not] occludes how constitutional governance can continue to function while producing results that feel, to those subjected to them, indistinguishable from breakdown" 🎯
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From Minneapolis, what many describe as a constitutional crisis looks very different on the ground.

EMMANUEL MAULEÓN on racialised suspicion, the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections, and the shift of state violence from the margins to the center.

verfassungsblog.de/a-letter-fro...
Quote: “What is newly visible to some through Operation Metro Surge has long been lived by others. The elasticity of constitutional standards and the racialized logics that structure immigration enforcement are not new.”
January 31, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Important essay by my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague:

"The shootings of Good and Pretti were not mandated by the Constitution. But they were made possible, legible, defensible, and even absorbable, by a constitutional order more comfortable debating its limits than enforcing them."
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 5d
From Minneapolis, what many describe as a constitutional crisis looks very different on the ground.

EMMANUEL MAULEÓN on racialised suspicion, the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections, and the shift of state violence from the margins to the center.

verfassungsblog.de/a-letter-fro...
Quote: “What is newly visible to some through Operation Metro Surge has long been lived by others. The elasticity of constitutional standards and the racialized logics that structure immigration enforcement are not new.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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From Minneapolis, what many describe as a constitutional crisis looks very different on the ground.

EMMANUEL MAULEÓN on racialised suspicion, the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections, and the shift of state violence from the margins to the center.

verfassungsblog.de/a-letter-fro...
Quote: “What is newly visible to some through Operation Metro Surge has long been lived by others. The elasticity of constitutional standards and the racialized logics that structure immigration enforcement are not new.”
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Europe’s Climate Crisis Is a Rule-of-Law Crisis says @uvalawschool.bsky.social Prof Christina Eckes in her @verfassungsblog.de comment on current EU climate developments.

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Europe’s Climate Crisis Is a Rule-of-Law Crisis
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January 31, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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An excellent missive on the moment in Minneapolis by my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague, Emmanuel Mauleón.

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A Letter from Minneapolis
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January 30, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Here I argue that Ukraine cannot wait for the EU’s slow accession process; I advocate fast-tracking membership as a security imperative, and revising the Copenhagen criteria and enlargement rules. The EU must reform its decision-making to anchor Ukraine and salvage its sovereign integrity.
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Ukraine cannot wait for the EU’s slow accession process 🇺🇦🇪🇺

ANDREW DUFF (@andrewduffeu.bsky.social) argues for fast-tracking membership as a security imperative — rethinking the Copenhagen criteria, enlargement rules, and EU decision-making to anchor Ukraine now.

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Quote: “Fast-tracking Ukrainian membership against the odds would be proof positive that the European Union can live on into the 21st century with purpose and confidence.”
January 31, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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"What is newly visible to some through Operation Metro Surge has long been lived by others. The elasticity of constitutional standards and the racialized logics that structure immigration enforcement are not new."

A Letter from Minneapolis, by Emmanuel Mauleón (@umnlawschool.bsky.social)
A Letter from Minneapolis
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January 30, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Useful teaching resource @verfassungsblog.de for week on 'is international law really law': "Even when states bend the law, its constraining force persists as long as they continue to argue within it." qv Judith Shklar on hypocrisy as not the worst crime. verfassungsblog.de/venezuela-us...
“Hypocrisy Implies a Moral Code”
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January 30, 2026 at 10:25 AM