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ZaöRV | Heidelberg Journal of International Law @zaoerv.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 Freeing Constitutional Identity

@jscholt.bsky.social reads Solange I as a groundbreaking judgment on constitutional identity, arguing why constitutionaly identity does not need to be linked to unamendability. A truly interesting article #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/... #ZaöRV

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Aug 21

The whoooooooooooole shebang is out with @europeanlawopen.bsky.social.

Everything you wanted to know about Marxism and EU law, but were afraid to ask.

Andy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · Aug 21

New symposium out now🎉

Edited by @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social + me in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social seeks to introduce Marxist approaches to EU law scholarship.

Read now 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🧵 (1/9) A thread on the symposium (please share!)

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Aug 4

What is the role of law in the Gaza war?

To OR BASSOK, the reality in Israel is not a story of a struggle between those who speak in the name of law against the lawless Behemoth.

It's more complex than that: both sides are speaking the language of law.

verfassungsblog.de/fraenkel-isr...

Quote from the piece by author Or Bassok: “The Behemoth narrative conceals a much more complex reality which is saturated with law, and in which legal academia supports the agents producing this law.”

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you so much – I'm glad you enjoyed the article. Your own work was extremely helpful to figuring out my conceptual framework!

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

While the article is principally about the VC, it raises wider questions about how we imagine European constitutionalism and how forms of hierarchy and difference engrained in our constitutional imagination can potentially fuel illiberal backlash.

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

I look in particular at the differentiation between 'new' and 'established' democracies common throughout the VC's standards, as well as the idea of 'European constitutional heritage' prominent in the VC's work.

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

My newest in the Hague J on the Rule of Law: a critical study of the work of the Venice Commission. I argue that aspects of the VC's work sheds light on our 'mental map' of European constitutionalism, emphasising above all an East-West binary.

Read it here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Venice Commission and the Mental Map of European Constitutionalism - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law

The Venice Commission is known to differentiate its constitutional advice depending on whether a state is considered a ‘new’ or an ‘established’ democracy. This article gives an account of the distinc...

link.springer.com

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jul 2

Excited to be on research leave for the next six months – the first unfettered research time I've had in four years. I'm looking at an open field with many ideas but no clear plan yet, which makes it all the more exciting. If you've ever wanted to get in touch on research matters, now is the time!

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jun 23

The article uses Solange I as a window through which we can critically examine the doctrinal connection between constitutional identity and unamendability that has become so prevalent, and casts doubt on its cogency and usefulness.

Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jun 23

I argue that the Court's conception of constitutional identity in Solange I was very different from its later conception of CI in the Lisbon judgment of 2009: Whereas the constitutional identity of Lisbon is strictly tied to unamendability and the eternity clause, the identity of Solange I wasn't.

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · Jun 23

New article out in @zaoerv.bsky.social as part of a special issue on the 50th anniversary of the German CC's Solange I judgment. Read it here: doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2025-2-547

Freeing Constitutional Identity from Unamendability: Solange I as a Constitutional Identity Judgment - Nomos eLibrary

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · May 23

This (and related measures in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice - FSJ) causes yet another conceptual headache for understanding the Windsor Framework (like we didn't have enough). 1/

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · May 22

Blogged
Towards a Euro-Rwanda policy?
The proposed new EU law rules on 'safe third countries': eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/05/towa...

Towards a Euro-Rwanda policy? The proposed new EU asylum law rules on ‘safe third countries’

Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Home Office, via Wikimedia Commons – the former Home Secreta...

eulawanalysis.blogspot.com

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · May 23

Such an interesting provision – I had to think about it in the context of a hypothetical ECHR withdrawal a while back and it got me worked up about the temporal horizon of that provision, as well!

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · May 20

An intellectually fascinating (and entertaining) engagement with Armin von Bogdandy's 'European society' project by Martin Loughlin: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · May 8

In our newest contribution to our symposium “Controversies over Methods in EU Law II” JENNIFER ORLANDO-SALLING explores how decolonial approaches in European Law offer a constructive space towards dialogue and reconstruction.

verfassungsblog.de/decolonialit...

Quote from our published article by author Jennifer Orlando-Salling: “New pathways towards understanding the rule of law’s deficiencies emerge from investigating contexts “upwards” or from below, problematising the rule of law’s imperial and colonial blind spots.”

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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · May 7

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

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

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

docs.google.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · May 6

Glad to see this out on the UKCLA blog, especially as it shows that the Court completely neglected the HRA/ECHR arguments brought by Amnesty International in their submission. So, even taking at face value claims that this decision was 'purely' about statutory interpretation, it is seriously wanting

UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · May 6

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/06/c...

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences

For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 is a judgment that has triggered great public discussion about the position of trans people in Great Britain (for an interesting discussion of…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · May 2

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · May 1

To make the field even more confusing, there's also the mass grant of citizenship to the Hungarian minority in Romania by the Orbán government – equally tied to language/culture/etc. but strategically motivated by the interest of establishing a new class of loyal Orbán supporters.

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Julian Scholtes @jscholt.bsky.social · May 1

"yeet the rich"

Nice.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · May 1

Blogged
Pirates of the Mediterranean
The CJEU rules against Malta's investor citizenship law - my analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/04/pira...

Pirates of the Mediterranean meet judges of the Kirchberg: the CJEU rules on Malta’s investor citizenship law

Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London* Photo credit : Aldo Ardetti, via Wikimedia Commons *Thanks to Jus...

eulawanalysis.blogspot.com

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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · Apr 29

📄 New article:

Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus

Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

A screenshot of the title (“Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights”) and abstract of the paper available at the link above

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · Apr 25

This isn't anything an "independent" statutory body would ever produce. It's an unworkable overreach by a politically motivated actor that should not be a statutory body anymore.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Apr 25

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

An interim update on the practical implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment | EHRC

www.equalityhumanrights.com

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Dimitri Spieker @dimitrispieker.bsky.social · Apr 17

🚨📢Come work with us! We at
Humboldt University’s law faculty have an amazing Easter present for all EU law aficionados!

The DFG Research Training Group DynamInt offers 12 fully funded PhD positions in the area of European law starting from October 2025!

www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp...

Planned Call for applications: Ten doctoral research positions

www.rewi.hu-berlin.de

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Apr 16

There's maybe no photo that better defines this ghastly era than these people celebrating the right to deny shelter to homeless trans women in the name of female empowerment.

Screenshot of an Associated Press article titled “UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people.” The subheadline reads: “The ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.” Below the headline is a photo of two smiling women holding hands and raising their arms in apparent celebration. One wears a green cardigan and pants; the other wears a black blazer and floral blouse. The article is by Sylvia Hui, Brian Melley, and Jill Lawless, and was updated at 12:55 PM EDT on April 16, 2025.

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