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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 22d

The Centre for the Study of France & the Francophone World (CEFMF) is hosting many brilliant francophone scholars @utoronto.ca in 2025/26 via two speaker series: “States & Legalities under Stress” & the “French History Seminar.” Find out more/join our listserv: munkschool.utoronto.ca/cees/centre-...

“States and Legalities under Stress: Death, Resilience, Renewal” CEFMF Speaker Series: France and the Francophone world are facing geopolitical realignments, persistent inequalities, rising political conflicts, & threats to civil liberties. How are states and legal orders coping?

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 9d

Missing Guardian of the Treaties (latest). Nothing new however unfortunately

www.politico.eu/article/curi...

@rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @tommasopavone.bsky.social

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 19d

Time to re-up my @verfassungsblog.de post from 2023 about the "EU's Faustian Bargain" w/ Orbán: "if the EU continues to treat the rule of law as a bargaining chip and to make promises it won’t keep, for how much longer will our Union remain a club worth joining?": verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-faus...

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 22d

To join our listserv & get updates on CEFMF’s forthcoming events, e-mail [email protected]

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 29d

And Justice Sotomayor remains one of only two voices on the "Court" who consistently show us what "speaking truth to power" looks like. Unfortunately, as an institution the SCOTUS instead seems intent to remind us daily what "faustian bargains" look like

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 29d

New York LGA to Toronto YYZ this evening. Stunning @aircanada.bsky.social

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Antoinette Scherz @ascherz.bsky.social · Sep 8

🗳️ Restoring democracy after years of erosion is hard work 🇪🇺

In a new IGCC blogpost, @chrishillion.bsky.social , @tommasopavone.bsky.social & I argue that "frontsliding" may require restorative disobedience—proportionate defiance of entrenched illiberal structures.

👉 ucigcc.org/blog/poland-...

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Sep 3

Restoring democracy after years of erosion is hard work: it takes more than democrats winning an election. This is the lesson @chrishillion.bsky.social, @ascherz.bsky.social & I derive from Poland in a new blogpost discussing our paper on “democratic frontsliding” in the EU: tinyurl.com/mvz3acbz

Poland Shows that Restoring Democracy Takes More than an Election - IGCC

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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · Aug 30

@silje-hermansen.bsky.social presented work with @louisabo.bsky.social and @tommasopavone.bsky.social on the conditions under which the European Court of Justice will accept novel legal arguments advanced by private parties #ecprgc25

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R. Daniel Kelemen @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Nice to see @economist.com discussing my research with @tommasopavone.bsky.social on the decline in law enforcement by the @ec.europa.eu - “The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe”
economist.com/europe/2025/...
from The Economist

The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe

Enforcement of EU law has become an afterthought

economist.com

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jul 1

The neighborhood raccoons didn’t know my flights were cancelled today, and that I’d be there to witness them “moving in” to my outdoor deck to live their best summer life 😂🥰 videos in the replies below @toronto.ca #TorontoRaccoons

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 28

Who are working on the EU and making Ernst Haas proud!

Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 28

Toronto has been on a hiring spree! Some context though: @uoft.bsky.social has long attracted int’l talent. I’m lucky to be on faculty at a world-class university in a diverse global city. Coming here is an incredible opportunity regardless of what happens down south: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain

www.nytimes.com

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 27

Powerful example of Justice Jackson bearing witness to what is now evident to all - especially the lower federal courts:

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 27

You can also read @mjsdc.bsky.social's on-point reaction here, where he also discusses excerpts of Justice Jackson's fierce dissent, sounding the latest alarm for the rule of law & democracy: bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 27

See: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/g...

The Supreme Court gives Trump a wave of victories in a blockbuster final week

The Supreme Court term has given the Trump administration a series of major wins in the final blockbuster week of its term. We rounded up the final decisions in one place.

www.npr.org

Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 27

100%. Today's ruling highlights as clearly as ever that the US Supreme Court -packed/coopted during Trump's 1st term- is at war w/ the lower federal courts. The lower courts are trying to defend rights & the rule of law, but the Supreme Court is enabling executive aggrandizement & trampling rights

Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · Jun 27

The S Court just struck a major blow against democracy and the rule of law, stripping lower courts of the long standing power of “universal injunctions,” the ability to stop administrative illegal action in its tracks. The timing couldn’t worse given the authoritarian threat that is Trump.

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 9

You can download the working paper on @ssrn.bsky.social as well as @apsa-preprints.bsky.social:

• papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
• preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 9

We've been working on this since 2023, when Civic Coalition won the Polish elections & a wave of democratic optimism swept Brussels. We knew that feeling was premature. The EU/Polish case teaches broader lessons about the promises & challenges of restoring liberal democracy. Please share & comment!

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 9

In Europe, the promises/perils of frontsliding are clear in Poland. A pro-democracy gov't won an election in '23, but struggled to break up autocratic enclaves. Our restorative disobedience argument charts a path for the Polish gov't & the EU (one the EU has already strayed from, to its detriment)

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · Jun 9

Building on @tomginsburg.bsky.social & Huq, we theorize "democratic frontsliding" as a subtype of democratization. The obstacles to frontsliding are "autocratic enclaves" surviving a democratizing election. We make the normative & legal case for "restorative disobedience" to break up these enclaves

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