Martin Kopa

Martin Kopa

@martinkopa.bsky.social

Dad, Judge & Human Rights Law teacher (Brno, Olomouc, Czechia, Europe)

272 Followers 611 Following 14 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 months ago
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ONE JUDGE, THREE QUESTIONS - Vahe Grigoryan (ENG) YouTube video by European Court of Human Rights

📹 In the latest video from the “One Judge, Three Questions” series, Vahe Grigoryan, judge elected in respect of Armenia:
➡️ Walks us through his career path
➡️ Explains what the Court represents to him
➡️ Highlights the most important Court case, in his view.
youtu.be/EoIAqedfJT0

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8 months ago
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Trust in the courts Top judge explains how judiciary should act in an age of populism

Předseda Nejvyššího soudu Spojeného království měl minulý týden důležitý projev na prakticky celosvětově významné téma. Článek @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social o slovech Lorda Reeda určitě doporučuji k přečtení! open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

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👨‍⚖️Mattias Guyomar, juge au titre de la France, élu président de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme tinyurl.com/56rcxwpm
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress

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10 months ago

Smutné, leč velmi pravdivé (a potřebné) čtení.

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11 months ago
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Delivered safe & sound to the Czech Republic! So looking forward to reading it! @philippesands.bsky.social

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11 months ago

Best writing tip I ever got (from a judge I clerked for):

Don't use an abbreviation or acronym unless EVERYONE knows what it means. That goes for legal writing, popular writing, social media - everything.

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11 months ago
Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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11 months ago
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Eliška Wagnerová: Poslední ústavní soudkyně “umazaná životem” Leviathan: Podcast o ústavním právu · Episode

Tenhle podcast tady doslova nemůžu nesdílet. 🙂 Kateřina Šimáčková, Ivo Pospíšil, Michal Bartoň a Vojtěch Šimíček s moderátorem Zdeňkem Červínkem a hodina a půl povídání o Elišce Wagnerové.

open.spotify.com/episode/4KR2...

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11 months ago
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne Court of Justice of the European Union

#ECJ #AG Richard de la Tour: An EU Member State must recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State but is not required to transcribe it in a civil register #EULaw #Poland 👉

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11 months ago
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Attorney defends judges Lord Hermer tells MPs that personal attacks threaten the rule of law

It is entirely unacceptable for MPs to attack judges on a personal basis, the attorney general said yesterday. Lord Hermer KC was giving evidence to MPs and peers the day after two Conservative MPs had called for senior judges to be disciplined by politicians. rozenberg.substack.com/p/attorney-d...

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11 months ago
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ONE JUDGE, THREE QUESTIONS - Canòlic Mingorance-Cairat (ENG) Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

On the occasion of the swearing-in of the newly elected judge in respect of Andorra, Canòlic Mingorance Cairat, the Court published a new video "One Judge, Three Questions" tinyurl.com/4knnrrbm
Composition of the Court: tinyurl.com/ncyt4xtu
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRjudges

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11 months ago

Unbelievable

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11 months ago

🚀 We’ve joined Bluesky! Stay informed about key rulings, insights, and how #CJEU judgments shape #EUlaw and your daily life. Follow us and stay up to date! ⚖️🌍 #ECJ

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1 year ago
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This Harvard Law prof thinks constitutional theory is a terrible way to pick a judge - Legal Talk Network What if we are asking the wrong questions when selecting American judges? Mark Tushnet thinks our current criteria might be off. “We should look for Discover insightful episodes on Legal Talk Network'...

An interview about my new book: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

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1 year ago
We speak today on behalf of the legal profession and its members who seek to live by the oath each took upon admission to the bar.

We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession. These efforts cannot be sanctioned or normalized.

There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation. We acknowledge that there are risks to standing up and addressing these important issues. But if the ABA and lawyers do not speak, who will speak for the organized bar? Who will speak for the judiciary? Who will protect our system of justice? If we don’t speak now, when will we speak?

The American Bar Association has chosen to stand and speak. Now is the time for all of us to speak with one voice. We invite you to stand with us.

The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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First copies arrived! Get it while it’s hot!

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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

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1 year ago

Subject matter specialists writing an appellate brief at a generalist court.

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1 year ago
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The CJEU ruling in Changu: ‘If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: the Return Directive in conjunction with the Charter of Fundamental Rights does not oblige EU Member States to grant a ... Alan Desmond , University of Leicester Kevin Fredy Hinterberger , Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour Photo credit : Luxufluxo , vi...

The CJEU has confirmed that non-EU citizens who are irregular migrants cannot invoke EU law to obtain a right to stay. Critique on human rights grounds, by Alan Desmond and Kevin Fredy Hinterberger
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

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On this day — December 19th — in 1975, John Paul Stevens joined the Supreme Court.

(Two days earlier, the Senate had confirmed him in a vote of 98-0.)

❤️

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Today, we celebrate 70 years since the European Culture Convention was opened for signature #OnThisDay in Paris to encourage the study of languages, history and civilisation and celebrate all of Europe’s cultural diversity.

#EuropeForCulture #HistoryAtHeart

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Profile | Is Aharon Barak Still Israel’s Most Maverick Judge? In this heretofore unreleased profile, Jeffrey Rosen discusses Barak’s legacy, detractors and the judge’s opinion on the role of the judiciary and the future of Israeli democracy.

Profile | Is Aharon Barak Still Israel’s Most Maverick Judge? momentmag.com/aharon-barak...

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1 year ago

1/ Some general points about how asylum and immigration law applies when an appalling dictatorship is ousted in another country. #Syria 🇸🇾

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1 year ago
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Alan Moore - Read Terrible Books - Storytelling - BBC Maestro YouTube video by BBC Maestro

This is actually a great legal writing tip, too. Nothing will inspire you more to be a good legal writer than bad legal writing. youtu.be/rCOmkrwQdFc?...

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1 year ago

I've said this before, but the fact that legal academia (especially at top schools) has significantly turned away from concern with doctrine—in helping judges figure out how to resolve hard cases—creates an opportunity for those lawprofs who want to have actual influence on how law develops.

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Proposal is likely in February. Commission is consulting with governments. Proposal may include rules on removal to non-EU countries, requirements to check in

Politico playbook has details on the planned proposed replacement for the returns (expulsion) directive, possibly coming by February

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1 year ago
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. 

If you use your library, please share. 

Picture of library aisle filled with books.

@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social

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1 year ago

Two other CJEU asylum judgments due that day, on: a) the effect of Italy refusing Dublin transfers; b) whether an asylum application is inadmissible if another Member State has already rejected it

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1 year ago
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Denzel Washington Told Us His Life Story He has lived a big life. Tough streets, close calls, a wife of forty-one years, four kids, fifty movies, two Oscars, three “Equalizers”. . . For the first time, the man himself breaks it all down, in ...

Denzel is the best. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

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