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Judicial discretion in the era of Illiberalism Despite the wide ambit of discretion our judges are required to exercise, our legal system tries to ensure at the time of appointments that judges’ decisions conform to the legal method. But what happ...

Despite the wide ambit of discretion our judges are required to exercise, our legal system tries to ensure at the time of appointments that judges’ decisions conform to the legal method. But what happens when these mechanisms start failing?

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📢 Film Screening & Panel Discussion: No Land for Anyone 📢

Join MiGo for a thought-provoking film screening and discussion on Germany’s alarming shift toward far-right migration policies.

📍 Gartenbaukino Parkring 12, 1010 Wien
📅 10 Dec 2025 | 18:00-21:00

Thinking citizenship through the lived experiences of highly skilled migrants in Budapest and Athens

📢 Event alert 📢

Join us for a lecture by Pınar Dilan Sönmez Goftsios on the lived experiences of migrant workers in Budapest and Athens.

📍 Central European University, Vienna
📅 10 November 2025 | 10:50 am

🌐For details, see: events.ceu.edu/2025-11-10/t...

The ‘black swans’ of citizenship: Citizenship-by-investment around the world

📢 Event alert 📢

Join us for a lecture by Jelena Dzankic, where she discusses her ongoing work on the unfolding of Citizenship-by-investment.

📍 D107, Central European University, Vienna
📅 18 November 2025 | 8:50 am

🌐For details: events.ceu.edu/2025-11-18/b...

Reparative Citizenship: Offering Membership as Compensation for Historic Injustice

📢 Event alert 📢

Join us for a lecture by Rainer Bauböck, in which he builds on a recent debate at @globalcit.bsky.social by exploring the motives behind reparative citizenship and its normative value."

📍 D109 Central European University, Vienna
📅 01 December 2025 | 10:50 am

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📢 Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Joy

Joy follows the story of Nigerian women trafficked into sexual exploitation in Austria, revealing both the violence of exploitation and the fight for autonomy within unjust systems.

📍 Central European University
📅 9 October 2025

📢 Friends at CEU DSPS and CEFRES are hosting a symposium on women’s resistance through art and cultural diplomacy

If you're in Vienna, don’t miss what promises to be a powerful and thought-provoking event

📍 Central European University, Vienna
📅 2–3 October 2025
🎟️ Free & open to all

Interested in migration, citizenship, human rights, or transnational governance?

Join us to connect with faculty, students & researchers across CEU exploring human rights, mobility & global governance 🌍

🗓️ Oct 1, 2025 🕠 5:30–7:00 PM
📍 CEU Auditorium

Iran renews missile attacks on Israel, killing 3 and wounding dozens Iran has launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least three killed and dozens more wounded in the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.

President Trump urges all of Tehran to evacuate "immediately" in new social media post as he says Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon.

Quote from our published article by author Marie: “Both the ban and its judicial review highlight and perpetuate the longstanding French tradition of experimenting with emergency powers to control the colonies and their populations.”

What if a TikTok ban says more about empire than about safety?

MARIE LAUR (marielaur.bsky.social) uncovers how the French TikTok ban in New Caledonia exposed colonial legacies at the heart of digital censorship and emergency powers.

verfassungsblog.de/the-tiktok-b...

Trump & his lawyers rely on the 14th Amendment's treatment of Native people to redefine birthright citizenship. In our Essay coming out in the NYU Law Review Online, Greg Ablavsky & I show how wrong that argument is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, was summoned to the criminal police in New Belgrade. Faculty staff, students, and many other citizens have come out to support him. #studentprotests

! major development: Italian gov restricts by decree transmission of citizenship abroad to 2 generations:

From now on if you are born abroad only Italian if: parent or grandparent born in Italy. Or if parent has resided in 🇮🇹 2 yrs before you were born

+ other restrictions upcoming (see 🧵 & below)

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers

This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

A sign of our times that European institutes are opening doors for our US colleagues (which is rightly to be applauded) but where were they when academics faced similar/ worst forms of attacks-their unis being razed to the ground to govts locking up outspoken scholars from the global south

New change to Home Office policy permanently blocks refugees from citizenship Change is bad in principle and breaches the Refugee Convention

1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement:

freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

And I've done a follow up on my Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Join our Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian reading series.

Session 3: Security Theology, Surveillance & the Politics of Fear

We’ll read Chapter 2: “Price tagging Palestinians: Alternative methods of surveillance & control”.

🗓️February 13, 18:30 CET, via zoom

www.southsouthmovement.org/reading-seri...

“For 40 hours, we were handcuffed, our feet tied with chains and were not allowed to move an inch from our seats. After repeated requests, we were allowed to drag ourselves to the washroom. The crew would open the door of the lavatory and shove us in,” said Harwinder Singh.

When they tell you who they are, believe them

The court in Wong Kim Ark argued that the 14th amendment was introduced to ensure that birthright citizenship could not be repealed by an act of Congress. Certainly an executive order cannot do what Congress cant.

Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Here full text of POTUS order on birthright citizenship

Mentions Dred Scott but not decisive SCOTUS ruling in Wong Kim Ark. Suppose Trump lawyers are aware that Wong will make it hard for them to win this case in court. 

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Lindsey Graham Tells Allies ‘We’re Gonna Crush Your Economy’ if They Arrest Netanyahu for War Crimes Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened a potential global economic meltdown if U.S. allies attempt to enforce an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Senator Lindsey Graham: “any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we’re gonna sanction you.” The rules-based international order in action.
www.mediaite.com/tv/lindsey-g...

Our Palestine Solidarity Series returns with a reading series on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's work on liberation, anti-colonialism & the resilience of 🇵🇸 communities under Israeli occupation.

In collab with the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.

www.southsouthmovement.org/reading-seri...

Our ‘Groundings’ series is back this coming week.

(Re)read Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ with us!

Co-organised by @antonioalcazr.bsky.social & Jan Orbie

🗓️ 20/11, 5pm CET

Sign up here:
⚡️ www.southsouthmovement.org/projects/cou...