Akritas Kaidatzis

I posted a very short but I think sort of interesting paper on the idea of transformative constitutionalism, including reactionary tc: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

There's something deeply rotten with Greece's judiciary.

Talk to me about "institutions" saving "(il?)liberal democracy" from evil anti-institutional populists

#AuthoritarianLiberalism
#Greece

Yes, that's the real story

I'd go for Kate Bush's version any day
youtu.be/-1pMMIe4hb4?...

Quite the contrary.
The man *should* become a king.
The only way the UK government would, probably, consider abolishing monarchy

Preorder for parents (or self)

Opinion | The Plan for a Radically Different Supreme Court Is Here

Bad idea top to bottom. We need a move against juristocracy, not for better judges. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

One aspect of the Epstein "saga" is about rich people from the ruling classes showing off, even bragging, they are above the law.

People from the working classes should not fall in the trap.

The rich are already criminals for being rich. Even more so when they abuse their privilege on top of that

Oh my dog

Judging from the Greek government spokesperson's colossal legal illiteracy, I genuinely believe that law schools should be granted the power to revoke law degrees

Imagine a deeply corrupt "3rd world" failed state whose coast guard is its most corrupt service, and is effectively owned by the very persons the service is supposed to monitor, ie shipowners.

Now imagine how unhinged and above the law that service would feel and act.

Pure imagination, of course

Al (as in Bundy, Gore, or Pacino) looks exactly the same as AI (as in artificial intelligence) in social media printed English.

I have no clue whatsoever why's that, and what to do with that

There's nothing *social* in the apex of late capitalism individualism that is called social media (which are actually neither social nor media)

Law (of any kind) loses its legitimacy, and hence its effectivity, incrementally.
Do not react to a breach of law, and you'll get another one next. And then another one.
Until you got no law any more

Much of constitutional law scholarship rests on the assumption that the judiciary are, by definition, the good guys that will help the people confront the bad guys, the enemies of democracy and rule of law.

Am I absurd to think this is an absurd and unfounded assumption?

Eat the rich

Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots

Whoever came up with the term homo "sapiens" clearly didn't have twitter

I consume. Therefore I am

To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Parliamentary sovereignty A short research briefing on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, its origins and contemporary application.

As part of my Parliamentary Fellowship, I've co-authored with David Torrance a short research briefing on parliamentary sovereignty. I'm working on a (much) longer piece, which will be out in 2026!

@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Hugh Grant would be a better PM still applies.
And has been for several years now.

Makes you wonder about the state of liberal democracy when peoples tend to consider their political leaders as grossly inadequate or even plainly clowns

Let's hope Chileans are not as self-destructive as US Americans are

Excellent article on the role of the president in a parliamentary republic.
While it refers to the Republic of Ireland, students of other parliamentary republics would find it most interesting

OK, it is to *teach* them, but you get the point

Morricone.
Spaghetti westerns wouldn't be the same without his music

Americans are so bad at making movies it took two Italians to learn them how to make the quintessentially American film genre, western

For starters.
But that's not enough.
They can always buy other people to do the work for them.

The only reasonable thing to do is to make their money illegal in politics

It is the French that chopped off their king's head.
It is the French that put corrupt PMs in jail.
Peoples in other nations, take notes