Nikolas M. Rajkovic

📚 A day in the life at the EUI: The Library

🎬In this interview, @nikolasrajkovic.bsky.social @eui-law.bsky.social ‬shares insights on the unique academic environment of the @euilibrary.bsky.social 📖🌐✨

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🎉 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE! "What is 'the Global? Reassembling Legal Authority across Space and Time" 💡 My introductory article sets the stage "Reassembling how international lawyers see space and time", doi.org/10.1017/S17445… @eui-eu.bsky.social @tilburguniversity.bsky.social

Africa’s Turn: The African Court’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change On 2 May 2025, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR, the Court) received a request for an advisory opinion concerning the obligations of states in the context of climate change. This...

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YouTube video by engage_EU Webinar on Europe Day 2025: Europe at the crossroads? Reflections on future perspectives, 8 May 2025

On Europe Day, Sabine Sainte-Rose convened a thought provoking webinar with Elena Bou, Thomas König and I on the question of “Europe at the Crossroads”? The recording is now available🎞️ @eui-eu.bsky.social @tilburguniversity.bsky.social
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Join us this afternoon 14:00-15:00 for our ENGAGE webinar discussion: “Europe at the Crossroads?” Link available below👇

Disillusioned with Tesla, sceptical about BYD? Don’t worry the Yugo is back!🎉🏎️
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Is Donald Trump right when he says the border is just an 'artificially drawn line'? | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump repeated one of his favourite talking points in his meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney Tuesday, saying the Canada-U.S. border is an “artificially drawn line.” Historia...

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Join us online on 8 May 14:00-15:00 @tilburguniversity.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

Happy to introduce Dr. Milena Mottola after successfully passing her PhD viva cum laude today at @unipd Università degli Studi di Padova. Her thesis is titled: ECONOMIC CORRIDORS AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 🎉Applause to supervisor Prof Tarcisio Gazzini👍

IGLP/Stellenbosch University, Global Scholars Academy, Deadline 24 February 2025

New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person The aim is to address injustices of colonisation, including confiscating land from local tribes.

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“There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad equipment.”

Proud of my relatives after working hard for many years to build a successful winery🍷 Gold Medal Winners at Wine Vision 2024🥇

Happening tomorrow at 15:00 in The Hague, Asser Institute:
“Don’t Look [Down]! The Ahistorical Space of Int’l Law”

The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture

The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis www.theguardian.com/education/20...

There’s still hope 👍

Don't Look [Down]! The Ahistorical Space of International Law, 11 December 2024, 15:00-16:30, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague
Speakers:
-Prof. Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Maastricht University, Judge at ITLOS
-Prof. Nikolas Rajkovic, Tilburg University
-Florentine Vos, Volterra Fietta

The deep historical forces that explain Trump’s win Our research shows that political breakdown, from the Roman Empire to the Russian revolution, follows a clear pattern: workers’ wages stagnate, while elites multiply

“The electoral defeat on 5 November represents one battle in an ongoing revolutionary war. The triumphant counter-elites want to replace their counterparts... But history shows that success in achieving such goals is far from assured.”
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Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks Fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives outnumber those of the EU or host country South Korea

For those assuming an international treaty will lead to a particular outcome…@TilburgLaw @eui_law www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Probably a handy chart heading into 2025 💡

Beyond TikTok — The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones - War on the Rocks While Washington fixates on TikTok’s potential to share personal data with Chinese intelligence for disinformation and hybrid warfare, a far more

I find the title problematic, but the content on agricultural drones is interesting vis-a-vis land data
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OPINION: What we’re observing among developed nations is a gradual but perceptible shift away from uncontrolled free trade, and a move toward the increasing imposition controls and measures.

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The Trans Dinarica: A new 5,500km bike trail connecting one of Europe's most remote regions Linking eight Balkan nations, the new Trans Dinarica cycling trail twists through some of the continent's most stunning – and least-visited – landscapes.

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Some truth in this 🫣

The Crisis of Kartenpolitik🗺️My Stockholm lecture will be now hybrid. Whether in 🇸🇪 or abroad, join us 25 November 15:00-17:00. Registration deadline tomorrow for in-person or Zoom. See flyer below for email.

Tilburg LLM Int Law and Global Governance briefings at European External Action Service followed by class dinner at Chez Leon 1893