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Siv Cheruvu @sivcheruvu.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its fall seminar series on zoom! Submit by August 25 for full consideration.

To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#psworkshop

Junior Law and Politics community sign-up

The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

docs.google.com

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · May 2

Congrats! That’s awesome!

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Feb 25

Congrats Siv! That’s awesome!

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Feb 17

Congrats on your lecture @siennanordquist.bsky.social! So cool to see how far you’ve come and that you’re teaching data science now!

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Jan 6

I’m excited to share my new ROIO article on voting at the UN. Building on data by @erikvoeten.bsky.social and others, we’ve created the first complete database of all UN votes and decisions. We show that using more complete roll-call data can really matter. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Decision-making in the United Nations General Assembly: A comprehensive database of resolution-related decisions - The Review of International Organizations

Existing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voting databases provide excellent coverage of UNGA voting on resolutions adopted by roll-call vote. These databases, however, have known limitations: T...

link.springer.com

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thanks to the GU Grants and Innovation Office for supporting our vision for the future of EU legal research! 6/6

Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Dec 2

Our database includes the text of legal documents, detailed document- and paragraph-level metadata, and ML-powered annotations. And it's available via an easy-to-use API. 5/6

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Dec 2

We’re also developing the highest-quality database of EU legal documents on the market. It's cleaner, more complete, and more current than EUR-Lex. 4/6

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Dec 2

Our cutting-edge SaaS platform recommends legal authorities that speak to your legal questions or arguments, analyzes how they connect to each other, and annotates them with highlights, tags, and notes tailored to your task. 3/6

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Dec 2

We’re working to make EU legal research faster, more accurate, and more user-friendly. 2/6

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Dec 2

Excited to share that LawLibrary.AI has received funding to develop our SaaS platform for EU legal research from the University of Gothenburg and GU Ventures! 1/6 www.lawlibrary.ai #EUlaw #LegalTech

LawLibrary.AI - Streamlining EU legal research

We're developing innovative research solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to streamline the process of European Union (EU) legal research.

www.lawlibrary.ai

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Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social · Dec 1

Happy that LawLibrary.AI has received VFT funding to continue developing our SaaS platform for EU legal research, making life easier for lawyers, law students and researchers working with EU law. Big thanks to GU Innovation office! lawlibrary.ai @joshfjelstul.bsky.social #legaltech #EUlaw

LawLibrary.AI - Streamlining EU legal research

We're developing innovative research solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to streamline the process of European Union (EU) legal research.

lawlibrary.ai

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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · Nov 27

if you work on or with European Union law, here is a bit of hot-off-the-digital-press, open-access research. I look at the gaps between Curia and Eur-Lex to understand how much of a problem using only one is, especially in English. tldr: it's not trivial

doi.org/10.1017/elo....

A note of caution on CJEU databases | European Law Open | Cambridge Core

A note of caution on CJEU databases

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Nov 27

This great new research note by @movadek.bsky.social discusses the pitfalls of working with CJEU decisions from the EU’s official sources — EUR-Lex and InfoCuria — and how we’re trying to solve these problems with the IUROPA database. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A note of caution on CJEU databases | European Law Open | Cambridge Core

A note of caution on CJEU databases

www.cambridge.org

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨🚨 Inspired by fellow EU nerds, I did a first attempt in creating a starter pack on European law and politics (defined in a broad sense) collecting some of the people I really think you should follow in this area. More names will be added but a bit exhausted by this work.
go.bsky.app/E5ByTCJ

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Ricky Clark @rickyclark.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thanks for doing this! Can you add me, please?

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Nov 18

A great set of law and courts panels for #ECPRGC25!

ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · Nov 18

We are looking forward to your paper submissions for #ECPRGC25!

Our Section "The Politics of Law and Courts" chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Urszula Jaremba has 10 pre-planned panels (🧵).

Contact the panel chairs by December 20 to join a pre-planned panel!

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Screenshot from ECPR webpage containing the section abstract

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Nov 18

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Nov 18

Can you add me please?

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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · Nov 18

The panel "Quantifying Judicial Impact: Selection, Process, and Authority" is chaired by @benjaminengst.bsky.social and @louisabo.bsky.social and welcomes quantitative analysis of judicial appointments, decisions-making and more!

Panel 1 Quantifying Judicial Impact: Selection, Process, and Authority (Chairs: Benjamin Engst and Louisa Boulaziz)
This panel addresses critical questions on judicial power and legitimacy: Why are some individuals appointed to the bench while others are not? To what extent do judicial procedures influence judicial outcomes? Why is judicial authority often overwhelmingly perceived as legitimate? We invite papers that examine these topics quantitatively and comparatively. Addressing these issues is essential to understanding the often unquestioned acceptance of judicial decisions and court’s societal influence.

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Justina Uriburu @justinauriburu.bsky.social · Nov 16

Fueled by the hope that X will finally sink, here is my first attempt at a starter pack on (all things) international courts and dispute settlement.

It is certainly a work in progress, so please hit me up with suggestions for who to add!

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thanks for doing this! Can you add me too, please? I study the CJEU.

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Nov 16

As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here:

jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/

And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...

Wrapper for the AT Protocol Behind Bluesky

Wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://bsky.social>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network or posting conten...

jbgruber.github.io

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Veronica Botticelli @veronicabotticelli.bsky.social · Nov 16

go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many

(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)

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