Our book launch in cozy Copenhagen (@ucph.bsky.social) was a joy! 🇩🇰 We presented our "Politics of Memory Laws" (@hartpublishing.bsky.social) with Maria Mälksoo & Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias. 📚 20% off with this code: GLR BD8 👉 bloomsbury.com/us/politics-...
Open access from Oct ’25!

Our new book "Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine & Beyond" (co-edited with A. Gliszczyńska-Grabias, M. Mälksoo & A. Nußberger) is out with @hartpublishing.bsky.social! - How laws on historical memory shape war & security in 🇷🇺, 🇺🇦, their neighbours & Europe: www.bloomsbury.com/us/politics-...

New in open-access! In his Law & Critique article, @ulad-belavusau.bsky.social explores how the Netherlands as a constitutional monarchy handles its memory politics — contrasting it with France’s republican approach based on parliamentary memory laws.

🔗Read here: www.asser.nl/about-the-as...

Fresh in the "Law & Critique" journal – my article on #colonial memory laws in 🇫🇷 & 🇳🇱. I argue the Dutch model, anchored in the monarch’s role and the Kingdom’s structure 👑, enables mnemonic constitutionalism – and more room for dialogue:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New initiative by @verfassungsblog.de: the VerfassungsBook series is here! Available in all major 🇩🇪 bookstores.
Fresh volume: "Owning the Past", ed. by Angelika Nußberger & Paula Rhein-Fischer.
My piece covers memory laws in 🇫🇷 & 🇳🇱.
Free PDF: verfassungsblog.de/wp-content/u...

In a new op-ed for de Volkskrant, researcher @ulad-belavusau.bsky.social explores how the Netherlands’ symbolic approach to confronting its slavery past offers a thoughtful alternative to restrictive memory laws in Europe.

Read more: lnkd.in/e3gYpYwC

#historicaljustice #reparativejustice

Great news, Laurent! Congratulations once again to the author and to the proud Doktorvater. 😊 I hope to see you and Kaan again before long (maybe in the Netherlands) – always a pleasure!

🇳🇱 Mijn opiniestuk vandaag in @volkskrant.nl: waarom NL bij Keti Koti kiest voor koninklijke excuses i.p.v. parlementaire herinneringswetten.
🇬🇧 My op-ed today in @volkskrant.nl: on why Dutch royal apologies may work better than memory laws by parliaments.

🔗 www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

📘If you’re near Huddersfield 🇬🇧, don’t miss the book launch this 30 June by Aytekin Kaan Kurtul — presenting his brilliant monograph on lèse-majesté: the offence of insulting heads of state. My endorsement is on the screenshot below.👇
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... | @profpech.bsky.social

Spoke (& learned tons!) on Chinese memory laws & East-Asian memory studies at a top workshop in lovely Leiden, thanks to Dr. Vincent Chang. The "Leiden Asian Studies" scholars = razor-sharp erudite minds. Hope my little “constitutional” detour to Korea & Japan didn’t send anyone to sleep! 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇰🇵 🇯🇵 🇹🇼

Gladly serving on the jury for Dr. Masuma Shahid’s PhD defence (online from Italy 🇮🇹 and thus, missing a rare occasion to wear a gown) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.🇳🇱 Warm congrats to Masuma & her co-supervisors, Profs. Jeroen Temperman & Ellen Hey, on a timely thesis on equal marriage right! 🎓

Touching base again with my Florentine alma mater this month as a visiting scholar at the EUI's (@eui-eu.bsky.social's) Robert Schuman Center (@eui-schuman.bsky.social). Trying to wrap up some delayed constitutional scribbles — bribe me with a gelato and I might just share a draft by the end of May.

There’s much at stake in this ruling that addresses research integrity, truth, and challenging the master narrative. The implications of archival research is wide.
@ulad-belavusau.bsky.social TY the EHRLR for the invite!

In this @verfassungsblog.de essay, I compare French🇫🇷 & Dutch🇳🇱 governance of colonial history. I explain why the Dutch mnemonic constitutionalism is a more compelling model than France’s controversial memory laws from the 2000s. Particularly suited to monarchies👑: verfassungsblog.de/memory-laws-...

Memory laws and historical narratives are gaining significance - but they can also be leveraged as tools by authoritarian and illiberal governments.

ANGELIKA NUßBERGER and PAULA RHEIN-FISCHER kick off a new symposium on historical narratives in law and politics:

verfassungsblog.de/omnipresent-...

My new open-access article on memory laws & the politics of #history in #Belarus is out in the Review of Central & East European Law: brill.com/view/journal... 📚 It explores the peculiar framing of #genocide & the authoritarian memory politics in recent Belarusian legislation. @tmcasser.bsky.social

Reconnecting with carioca colleagues is a joy – especially when we dive into memory laws at the Escola da Magistratura. 🇧🇷 If you’re in Rio this month, não fiquem tímidos – reach out. Const. law, human rights (esp. free speech), anti-discrimination, EU law & memory politics. Vamos trocar ideias 🎼

I’m back to Rio for a research mission this month & a workshop on mnemonic constitutionalism at the Escola da Magistratura on Friday-the-13th: emerj.tjrj.jus.br/evento/8582. You’re warmly invited – also for a coffee in town. Even constitutionalism needs a caffeine boost to fight jet lag! ☕🌴