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Ahmed Ellaboudy

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Lawyer, PhD candidate @TCDLawSchool Researching Counterterrorism Laws & Fundamental Rights| Focus: Emergencies, Constitutional Theory & HRL (Global South Critique)

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Nov 23

My blog post on @verfassungsblog.de shows how Anti-terrorism legislation impinge on property rights to a degree that is constitutionally unacceptable. These observations are linked to my PhD project looks at interactions between preventive justice, countering terrorism, and property rights.

Anti-Terror Legislation and Property Rights in Egypt: How Counter-Terrorism Regimes Impinge on Property Rights and the Rule of Law

In January 2023, the Egyptian cabinet introduced a new bill for parliamentary discussion proposing the establishment of a new body to manage seized funds and assets confiscated by the state, including...

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · 15d

The programme is here! TriCON New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop features 6 brilliant ECRs tackling diverse research inquiries, with expert feedback from leading constitutional law academics - plus a keynote session by Prof. Leah Trueblood. @tricondublin.bsky.social

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Jul 28

Deadline for submission of abstracts July 31st!

Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Submissions are open for the 'TriCON New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop'. An excellent opportunity for PhD candidates & ECRs in Ireland working on public/constitutional law to get expert feedback on their research. @tricondublin.bsky.social

Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Righteous Community www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jackson Lears · The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror

Once the US became the world’s only superpower, universalist fantasies proliferated. But after 9/11 they widened,...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 30

Judge grants Palestine Action urgent hearing to try to stop ban taking effect

Co-founder of protest group to be given opportunity to apply for ‘interim relief’ to prevent proscription order * UK politics live – latest updates Palestine Action has been granted an urgent high court hearing on Friday to try to prevent a banning order against the direct action protest group coming into effect. An order is due to be laid before parliament on Monday which would proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation, making being a member of – or inviting support for – Palestine Action a criminal offence carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail. Continue reading...

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Jun 23

The potential proscription of Palestine Action is an explicit use of terrorism designation as a mode of societal control by threatening supporters with terrorism offences.

UK to ban campaign group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws

Britain said on Monday it would use anti-terrorism laws to ban the campaign organisation Palestine Action, making it a criminal offence to belong to the group after its activists damaged two UK military planes in protest at London's support for Israel.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Jun 23

This is a dangerous lowering of the bar regarding what counts as terrorism.
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Government confirms it will ban Palestine Action under anti-terror legislation – UK politics live

It will become a criminal offence to belong to the campaign group which damaged two military planes last week

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Jun 11

Legal positivism at its finest!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 6

‘Most hunger strikes are undertaken by prisoners. But unlike her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah, unlike the 9000-plus Palestinians prisoners on hunger strike in Israel now, unlike Bobby Sands and his comrades in the 1980s, Laila Soueif is able to play out her drama in public.’

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Ahdaf Soueif | Day 250

Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in...

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · May 27

The Programme looks fascinating! Is there a way to attend it online?

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · May 21

Why the new Hungarian Transparency Bill is an attack on the foundations of the European Union:

RENÁTA UITZ on the notorious transparency bill, why constitutional democracy in Hungary is under threat — and what the European Union should do now.

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Quote: “It is now on the European Commission to halt the retrogressive measures that Hungary is implementing in an attempt to reshape the Union’s founding values.”

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · May 21

Since the Supreme Court judgment in Akdogan, this is a strict liability offence.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · May 21

British police have charged Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known as 'Mo Chara', with a terrorism offence over the display of a flag supporting Hezbollah at a gig in London

Police charge Kneecap's 'Mo Chara' with terrorism offence

A member of Northern Irish hip-hop group Kneecap has been charged with a terrorism offence for displaying a flag in support of Iran-backed group Hezbollah, British police have said.

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Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social · May 21

Do you know any PhD students who would like to help teach British Politics at UCL for a term next year?

If so, we have a PGTA role! Please do share this ad among your networks.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Mar 29

The Trump administration's assault on the rule of law is increasingly focusing on institutions of knowledge and law.

VICKI C. JACKSON (@harvard.edu) on a "multipronged attack", why knowledge institutions are crucial for democracies - and why it is time to resist.

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Quote from the article: It is a time for courage and for the institutions of knowledge, of law and lawyers to resist – clearly, and repeatedly, for all have a stake in preserving knowledge-related freedoms and the rule of law

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Mar 14

The executive appoints the legislature and the judiciary (only for 5 years). Unchecked emergency powers. Selective/ ambiguous religious 'jurisprudence' (not principles or established rules) is the principal source of legislation.
A new one-man-rule totalitarian political project in the making.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 13

Syria’s leader proclaims ‘new history’ after signing constitutional declaration

Five-year transition period declared along with rights for women, freedom of expression and justice for Assad victims Syria’s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has hailed the start of a “new history” for his country, after signing into force a constitutional…

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Delighted to present my reflections on the interactions between liberal constitutionalism, preventive justice, and property rights in legal countering terrorism at SLS Public Law ECR Workshop. Thanks @chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social @michael-lane.bsky.social for the great opportunity!

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Irish government’s plan to stimulate housing supply is to keep rents high and drive them higher, oblivious to a decade of record high rents having failed to improve supply www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Taoiseach signals major policy shift on housing with possible end to rent pressure zones and more reliance on private sector

Micheál Martin has said the State needs to ‘pivot’ to encourage more private investment in the housing market

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Jan 10

I'm quoted in this Irish Examiner story on Elon Musk's attempt to misrepresent the Irish criminal justice system by relying on a case from over 20 years ago. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

'Lying like hell': Elon Musk extends online attacks on EU countries to Ireland

The European Commission has warned Mr Musk about not breaching EU laws on amplifying harmful content

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Jan 4

The irony of the neoliberal dispensation in a academia is the refusal to apply something like a cost-benefit analysis to competition itself

Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Dec 22

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Dec 9

A new eposide of the ongoing legitmacy concerns related to preventive counter terrorism measuers: the political nature of terrorist proscription regimes and the lack of legal reasoning in regard to listing and de-listing procedures.

Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Dec 9

According to the UK's list of proscribed terrorist organisations, Al Qaeda is now in charge of Syria.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · Dec 4

It would be nice if 30+ years after I am in the ground, people were going through old harddrives to find unpublications.

But it is a bit unlikely, to say the least.

He was a lovely writer Hart.

bárbara @barbararonsoni.bsky.social · Dec 4

wake up babe Hart's *new* paper just dropped academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...

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Tomás Daly - Call me Tom @democracytalk.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thank you @antonhur.com for this thread

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Dec 3

According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now.

We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.

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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Dec 3

What is happening right now in South Korea is just a reminder that "well-established" constitutional democracies are not immune to the executive abuse of emergency/exceptional powers.

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Gaurav Mukherjee @gauravmkjee.bsky.social · Dec 3

The Center of Advanced Studies on Reflexive Globalization and the Law at Humboldt University, Berlin, has opened its call for residential fellowships for '25-'26, with stipends, with a focus on colonial legacies in constitutional & criminal law. Deadline Feb '25
www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/reg...

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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · Nov 19

Building a comparative constitutional law starter pack - let me know if you’d like to be added!

go.bsky.app/LQqBn6D

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