Jenny Orlando-Salling

(De)coloniality and EU Legal Studies

⚖️ ✍️ a piece I wrote a while back entitled ‘Decoloniality and EU legal studies’ is now on @verfassungsblog.de.

With so many thanks to the re:constitution fellowship for supporting my mobility periods at the University of Malta & the Ministry for Justice.

Link: verfassungsblog.de/decolonialit...

🇲🇹 Latest Press Release from the Government of Malta

Link: www.gov.mt/en/Governmen...

🇲🇹🇪🇺 Two European Councils, a Foreign Affairs Council, five PSC meetings and tonnes in between.

It’s been a busy but excellent first couple of weeks.

And it’s just the beginning.

#EU #CFSP #CSDP #EUCO #FAC

@europeanlawopen.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social

🇪🇺🇲🇹 My paper on ‘The Digital Services Act in the European periphery: Critical perspectives on EU digital regulation’ is *finally* out on European Law Open!

🙏 to the many from academia & practice who contributed & engaged with it - it was invaluable.

➡️ Get it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We will get you the outfit

Need to get the outfit now. Absolute queen. 👑

Btw I have actually seen insta clips situating ‘serving Kant’ in Kant himself… this is a major contribution to the field and a unique opportunity for Kant to speak to Eurovision fans worldwide.

@jorisvanderiet.bsky.social I don’t have your number but I need you on this now.

Serving Kant, always.

✨⚖️ Been quiet on here (and everywhere) -

February is looking busy. Upcoming:

✍🏼 European Society (with @silviasteininger.bsky.social)
🗣️ Re:constitution project presentation University of Amsterdam + interviews
👩🏽‍💻 Blog in Symposium on Methods in EU Law… & more 🫣

🇲🇹⚖️ back to re:constitution and now in its institutional phase.

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 YOU GOT THIS

Oh my gosh me too! I still haven’t fully grasped how to use this thing but trying. No hurry - we’re also struck down by a tummy bug (for a change). Sending thoughts and strength!

Just hit 2000 followers here. Thank you for following me and my work.

Good morning everyone - and good morning 2025.

It’s hard to find joy in the season this year. Not a moment goes by where my heart isn’t heavy.

We continue to hold hope for the end of the unimaginable suffering endured by too many while we sit at full tables and hold our children while they sleep peacefully in our arms.

To freedom. To peace.

If you mean missing the point.. then no you’re not getting it. The significance of the request is the point. ✌🏼

UN Secretary General requests AO from the ICJ on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States in OPT icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

👩🏻‍⚖️🇲🇹 Final week of academic mobility phase of re:constitution at the University of Malta.

🎆🇲🇹 Malta marks 50 years a Republic today.

Just look at how gorgeous it is.

Probably the best PhD school in the world. Apply below 👇🏼

I don’t have it but hoped that someone would send it your way! Will ask!

6/ European society is not a fixed object but a process with no utopic end. It is, to me, a conversation and a site for both deliberation and contestation.

A place that needs to resist narrowing but remain open to the conversations it is yet to have and *needs* to have.

5/ The methodological limitations of EU law and legal studies are known. These limitations further disconnect the scholarship from reality.

If we are going to meet this moment, closing spaces is not the answer. Opening, decentering, perspective and reconstruction based on empathy is.

4/ As the case was deliberated in the court, the far, far-right continued to gain new ground in the EU.

We must ask ourselves why this (unprecedented) development is happening. What are the people saying? Are they taken seriously? Are we reflecting on this in our (legal) scholarship?

3/ Opening the space to critically contend with the way EU law lives - on the ground - beyond narratives of exceptionalism of the law itself but excavating the ‘who’ ‘when’ ‘where’ and ‘why’ in EU law has never been a more important crucial enterprise.

2/ @silviasteininger.bsky.social and I problematise this in our paper on ‘In-/Exclusion in the European Society’ that uses critical methodological approaches as we, a German and a Maltese scholar, look at recent case law foregrounding marginality, liminality and Otherisation in the ES.

1/ As the ‘European society’ takes centre-stage following the C-769/22 pleadings before the court, it has never been more important to approach questions of who is and who is not seen in this European society and consequently in the law of the European society.