Karin van Leeuwen 🟥

Of course not without a shoutout to volume editors @cjtams.bsky.social and Henri de Waele for navigating this wonderful collection of papers through pandemic and post pandemic times :)

Realising The Hope of Ages?

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Book cover of De Waele and Tams (eds) 'Realising the Hope of Ages?' book on the Permanent Court of International Justice

Table of contents

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Prints! Ready to delve into this new volume that just arrived in the mail, with new perspectives from various disciplines on the 1920-1946 Permanent Court of International Justice. Including a chapter by yours truly on the role of the Netherlands in the establishment of the court.

And last but not least my own and @koenvanzon.bsky.social 's 'Preparing for disaster: the Seveso directive, infringements and societal mobilisation of European law, 1976–2000' doi:10.1017/elo.2025.10025 5/5

As well as @whommes.bsky.social 's 'In search of an independent tribunal: activating the European Court of Human Rights, 1969–1974' doi:10.1017/elo.2025.10037 4/5

Plus Magnus Esmark's 'The 1989 buy-Danish clause: making sense of legal error through allodoxia' doi:10.1017/elo.2025.10036 3/5

And the other contributions include @lolaavril.bsky.social 's ‘A Community Frame to Habits and Traditions?’ – A socio-historical account of the attempt to build a European Legal Profession (1957–1977)' doi:10.1017/elo.2025.10026 2/5

For context, please check out the special issue introduction by Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth, 'Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000' doi:10.1017/elo.2025.10031 1/5

Another piece from the special issue on EU legal history 'from below' that is nicely coming about on first view: the story of Helen Marshall's unlikely (but major) contribution to EU law.

Hoger onderwijs hoopt met nieuwe staking druk te leggen op de formatie Het hoger onderwijs staakt op 9 december opnieuw tegen de bezuinigingen. Onder andere WOinActie, studentenvakbonden, FNV en de Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb) hopen zo druk te leggen op de formatie.

9 december! Zegt het voort!
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The symposium is coming together nicely: Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth write the introduction cum manifest on bottom-up legal history. @koenvanzon.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social

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BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025), (image source: Hart ) Abstract: This book analyses the informal decision making process in the EU against the background of a gradually em...

BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025

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If you can, join this (hybrid) book launch of @whommes.bsky.social 's history of the European Convention of Human Rights and its reception in the Netherlands!

Come visit us during tomorrow’s @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social BA Open Day and learn more about our four fantastic programmes in

📚 Arts & Culture 📚
🤖 Digital Society 🤖
🇪🇺 European Studies 🇪🇺
🌐 Global Studies 🌐

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By @whommes.bsky.social that is!

Another publication now on First View! This piece by Wiebe Hommes @uvalawschool.bsky.social will be part of the forthcoming special issue featuring histories 'beyond European legal integration' - but open for you to read already from today!

Was just hoping someone would be writing such histories after touching upon similar airport stories in my current research on judicialization of Dutch refugee policy.. and here it is! Extremely enriching!

Fascinating read on airports as sites of contestation between nation states and their immigration regimes on the one hand and international rights conceptions on the other, from the perspective of the refugees..

By the way, do stay tuned for the rest of the special issue on EU legal histories 'from below' that this piece will be part of, masterfully edited by Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth!

.. and thus our analysis nuances the alleged democratic virtues of legal mobilisation. Are new legal opportunities empowering societal groups? Sometimes, sometimes not.

As the title suggests, it zooms in on legislation meant to prevent industrial disaster, namely the early 1980s post-Seveso directive, which led to two major infringement cases: one in the Netherlands and one in Italy. Comparing these cases, it shows origins could hardly have been more different..

Published today @europeanlawopen.bsky.social : this piece co-authored with @koenvanzon.bsky.social on 'societal mobilisation' of EU law through an instrument you'd not immediately think of as very 'societal': infringement proceedings

📣Call for Panels, Papers and Posters for the APH 2026 Conference! Deadline, 1 Dec 2025.

Topic: Dynamizing and Decentring Empires: A Recalibration of the History of the Political

📍Münster @uni-muenster.de @sechistnetwork.bsky.social
📅11-13 June 2026

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There they are! Kicking off the 2025-2026 academic year (and my directorship of the programme!) with over 300 first year students for the BA European Studies @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social 🇪🇺

Ja eens hoor, of althans: in lijn met mijn punt, namelijk: er zijn allerlei factoren in het spel hier, niet één bewuste keuze geweest

Wordt geconstrueerd.. maar de vraag is door wie. Terwijl Angelsaksische wereld zich opende voor talent van overal bleven Duitse en Franse academie vrij gesloten is mijn indruk. Dus in hoeverre is het dan (Nederlandse) wetenschappers te verwijten dat ze niet in die talen investeren?

Happy Europe Day from our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social European Studies graduates!

PhD scholarship in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER_LEAGUE at the Saxo Institute at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a PhD scholarship in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER_LEA

One great PhD opportunity! The lucky historian will learn a great deal.
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Huge crowd, protesting against the budget cuts in Dutch higher education at Maastricht #WOinActie

Today UM strikes! 🟥

Staff & students pause work to protest education cuts. Over 2,500 concerned citizens and academics signed a solidarity letter. ✊

Follow the liveblog 👉 edu.nl/xaa3q & share your solidarity on social media platforms using #WOinActie

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