With @azizaahmed.bsky.social, Joanna Erdman (@schulichlaw.bsky.social), Mariana Prandini Assis

Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

What would a robust legal framework for reproductive justice look like in the EU and globally?

On June 11th, with the Berkeley Center for Comparative Equality Law & @eui-eu.bsky.social , we’ve organized a conversation with some of the leading critical legal scholars on reproductive justice.

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Join us this evening for the hybrid pre-launch of our collective book on #metoo in academia.

Sexual harassment is, sadly, still pervasive and it’s much needed that academics talk about it and about what we can do collectively to make our universities safer and more equal.

More info below

Next week, in London I’ll be joining a complex and much needed conversation about sexual harassment in academia together with a wonderful group of scholars.
Join us in person or online.

March 10, 6-8pm

More here: shorturl.at/v1IvY

Co-hosted by @lawsocialchange.bsky.social

A huge thank you to the very patient editors of the Columbia Journal of European Law, and to all the (many!) generous colleagues who read and commented on previous drafts.

Send me a DM if you like to read it!

The paper also suggests some alternative legal pathways aligned with a materialist understanding of international human rights obligations to ensure a thicker understanding of reproductive justice across the EU

To a large extent, EU law protects Member States’ abortion laws no matter how harmful they may be, and offers legal protection only to those who have enough resources to exit discriminatory domestic health systems, even though human rights & gender equality are fundamental values of the EU.

The paper shows how EU economic and human rights frameworks regulating abortion keep undermining reproductive justice and entrenching intersectional inequalities.

Got these in the mail! 📦📖 So happy to see my article on EU abortion law now in the Columbia Journal of European Law.

Bosnian students rally for justice, drawing inspiration from anti-graft struggle in Serbia Students in Bosnia and Montenegro have rallied against corruption, drawing inspiration from their fellow students in neighboring Serbia whose anti-graft protests have shaken the government and given r...

The student protest movement that started in Serbia is spreading. Students in Bosnia and Montenegro also held rallies today. The common thread: anger over corruption and official impunity. A short 🧵
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Below pictures from massive protests in Novi Sad, and from rallies in support of students in Paris & Amsterdam.

In a moment in which –across the EU- far-right parties are going mainstream, protests are criminalized, and democratic practices are breaking down, maybe the EU societies could learn something from their periphery about how to create alliances across the board and nourish direct democracy.

This level of mobilization is truly remarkable in one of the poorest countries in Europe: a country still scarred by war, nationalist paranoia, polarization & social inequalities, in which the ruling party has captured institutions — from the judiciary to the media— while being entangled with mafia.

The ruling party has responded by describing students as foreign spies, by threatening them to cut scholarships and benefits, and by encouraging physical violence against protesters. So far, that has backfired.

Through various actions of civil disobedience students are demanding systemic economic and social changes. In real time they are showing how to build a counterhegemonic movement

Student groups are leaderless and democratic, with all decisions taken by students’ plenaries. The movement is cross-generational, and students managed to build a coalition across various sectors of the Serbian society: from teachers, university professors, healthcare professionals, and farmers.

For the past two months, with very limited attention by international media, and while the EU remains largely silent, university students in Serbia have been leading a nationwide, bottom-up, anti- corruption movement frontally challenging the authoritarian government.

An incredibly disappointing day for @tilburg-university.bsky.social as the University Board ignores its own experts, who advised that TiU suspend ties with Israeli partner universities due to the heightened risk of their participation in HR violations and failure to ensure academic freedom.

Transnational Legal Theory Critical legal approaches in EU Law. Volume 15, Issue 4 of Transnational Legal Theory

We are proud to recently have published the final issue of our 2024 volume, a special issue edited by Ivana Isailovic @uvalawschool.bsky.social on 'Critical approaches to EU Law'. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtlt20/c...

Thank you! 🤍

Transnational Legal Theory Critical legal approaches in EU Law. Volume 15, Issue 4 of Transnational Legal Theory

It’s part of the special issue on Critical legal approaches in EU law that I shared last week.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtlt20/1...

I wrote an essay on gender in political economy and EU law. It explores what this approach means for EU law, and connects EU anti-discrimination law to neoliberalism and racial capitalism.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really important special issue: continuing the much-needed conversation about critical approaches to, and new methodological directions in, EU law scholarship

Thank you Diamond!

Grateful to the contributors Fernanda Nicola, Janine Silga, Annette Schrauwen, Iris Goldner Lang, Sanja Bogojević, Floris de Witte, Andy Woodhouse & Giacomo Tagiuri, and the Transnational Legal Theory team for their support

Critical legal approaches are still very often marginalized in EU law. Our hope is that these essays can provide support for colleagues who want to explore these approaches in their research and their classrooms.

Essays explore a variety of critical methodological moves in EU law: redistributive analysis, law and political economy, Marxist and feminist approaches to law and reflections on the positionality of EU legal researchers across climate, economic, immigration and EU equality laws.

What, and who is EU law for?

A special issue on critical approaches to EU law that I edited has just been published, with short essays from a wonderful group of scholars.

Link: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtlt20/c...

What a day!

So grateful to the generous scholars who gave their insights and energy to create a very unique intellectual space 💙

And we’re just getting started!
Message if you’d like to get involved