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Decolonising European Society | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Decolonising European Society

Take a walk on the dark side of European society: @silviasteininger.bsky.social and @jennyos.bsky.social on who is (and who is not) recognised.

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12.02.2026 09:51 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Constitutionalism without principle: Article 2 TEU and the doctrinal construction of EU values | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Constitutionalism without principle: Article 2 TEU and the doctrinal construction of EU values

Constitutional Law without politics? @martijnvandenbrink.bsky.social brings out his inner Martin Shapiro to discuss value constitutionalism.

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13.02.2026 10:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The concept of European society in a historical perspective: a legacy from the 20th Century | European Law Open | Cambridge Core The concept of European society in a historical perspective: a legacy from the 20th Century

The European 'society of values' through the lens of the 1919 'société des nations.' Grégoire Mallard with some much-needed historical perspective.

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12.02.2026 07:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Ghost in the shell: the narrative entanglement of constitutional and preconstitutional identity | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Ghost in the shell: the narrative entanglement of constitutional and preconstitutional identity

Ana van Liedekerke and Christophe Maes on pre-constitutional identity with reference to a film cool kids will have seen (no we haven't).

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11.02.2026 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The secret life of the EU treaties: NGEU and the politics of the EU’s ‘living constitution’ | European Law Open | Cambridge Core The secret life of the EU treaties: NGEU and the politics of the EU’s ‘living constitution’

NGEU, and invisible constitutional change by legal engineering. Päivi Leino-Sandberg has things to say.

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10.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Social justice and sustainability: Private law’s moment in the European green transition | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Social justice and sustainability: Private law’s moment in the European green transition

On transformations, transitions, and the moment of private law. Alessandra Quarta on First View.

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09.02.2026 08:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

‘Turning Ruthenians into Czechs’? Accusations of colonialism, and Czechoslovak democracy-building in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, 1919–1939 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core ‘Turning Ruthenians into Czechs’? Accusations of colonialism, and Czechoslovak democracy-building in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, 1919–1939

Yes, you need to know about subcarpathian Ruthenia, 1919-1939. Jana Osterkamp on FirstView.

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27.01.2026 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

On the meaning and promise of European Society | European Law Open | Cambridge Core On the meaning and promise of European Society

Armin von Bogdandy will not be deterred..

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22.01.2026 14:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Constitutional identity and patriarchy: the exclusion of women from the priesthood as a constitutional problem | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Constitutional identity and patriarchy: the exclusion of women from the priesthood as a constitutional problem

Women and the sacred: Ilenia Ruggiu asks the constitutional question.

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03.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rule in the New European Union | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Rule in the New European Union

Political authority and direct rule in the activist EU: Floris de Witte on First View.

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30.12.2025 07:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The threshold of emergency: sovereign power, constitutional change and the spectre of Civil War in 1938 Romania | European Law Open | Cambridge Core The threshold of emergency: sovereign power, constitutional change and the spectre of Civil War in 1938 Romania

We're trying very hard not to make a joke about Christmas King Carol. On First View, Cosmin Cercel on the construction of authoritarian rule in interwar Romania.

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23.12.2025 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Italy’s authoritarian turn as executive dominance: Costantino Mortati’s early writings (1931–1944) | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Italy’s authoritarian turn as executive dominance: Costantino Mortati’s early writings (1931–1944)

L'ora del potere esecutivo: Orlando Scarcello on the legal thought of Constantino Mortati in fascist Italy.

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19.12.2025 08:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not all consumers are the same: how is the differentiation between consumers operationalised in EU consumer law? | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Not all consumers are the same: how is the differentiation between consumers operationalised in EU consumer law?

This is how it is done: posit a problem, sketch out a theoretical framework, apply said framework to the analysis of the material. Excellent work by Tom Bouwman on First View.

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18.12.2025 14:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Prefigurative EU law | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Prefigurative EU law

The revolution will not be televised. But it is available on FirstView: @martijnhesselink.bsky.social proposes to occupy the European Commission’s recent plans for a 28th legal regime.

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15.12.2025 15:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

EU values and the place of European society: an external-focused account | European Law Open | Cambridge Core EU values and the place of European society: an external-focused account

How European society produces 'a core where EU values are fully guaranteed, and a periphery where they disappear.' Toni Marzal has important things to say.

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10.12.2025 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

European society and its law: EU law in light of social theory | European Law Open | Cambridge Core European society and its law: EU law in light of social theory

On First View, Loïc Azoulai on the naissances latentes of European society and its law.

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09.12.2025 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Who’s the sovereign? Legitimating constitutional authoritarianism in interwar Poland | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Who’s the sovereign? Legitimating constitutional authoritarianism in interwar Poland

On First View: @zacharymazur.bsky.social unravels a complicated story of interwar authoritarianism in Poland.

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05.12.2025 09:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

European Law Open: Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core - European Law Open - Volume 4 - Issue 3

New issue dropped! Thanks to @sarahvahed.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social @koenvanzon.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social and the others for some brilliant work.

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02.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

The EU’s (not so) cheap talk on defence | European Law Open | Cambridge Core The EU’s (not so) cheap talk on defence - Volume 4 Issue 3

Strengthening national military–industrial complexes rather than building a coordinated European defence framework? Marco Dani and Agustín Menéndez on keeping freedom free in the EU.

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03.12.2025 07:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rethinking the Marshall-Cases ‘from below’: Helen Marshall as a legal entrepreneur in Southern England and Luxembourg, 1978–1993 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Rethinking the Marshall-Cases ‘from below’: Helen Marshall as a legal entrepreneur in Southern England and Luxembourg, 1978–1993

On FirstView- Mala Loth on the unlikeliest of legal entrepeneurs to write the history of European legal integration. Fascinating stuff.

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19.11.2025 08:09 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Authoritarianism before democracy was standardised: conceptualising interwar-era electoral authoritarianism, the liberal inheritance, and institutional-hierarchical alternatives | European Law Open | ... Authoritarianism before democracy was standardised: conceptualising interwar-era electoral authoritarianism, the liberal inheritance, and institutional-hierarchical alternatives

On First Viuew: Julian Waller on Electoral authoritarianism 1.0.

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14.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000

The symposium is coming together nicely: Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth write the introduction cum manifest on bottom-up legal history. @koenvanzon.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social

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12.11.2025 08:35 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Constitutional subjects: the formation and fracture of constitutional legitimacy. Towards a phenomenology of law and violence | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Constitutional subjects: the formation and fracture of constitutional legitimacy. Towards a phenomenology of law and violence

On FirstView: Chris Thornhill on violence as the not-so mystical foundation of constitutionalism.

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10.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

‘A Community Frame to Habits and Traditions?’ – A socio-historical account of the attempt to build a European Legal Profession (1957–1977) | European Law Open | Cambridge Core ‘A Community Frame to Habits and Traditions?’ – A socio-historical account of the attempt to build a European Legal Profession (1957–1977)

On FirstView: our own @lolaavril.bsky.social writes a history of the European legal profession. It started out so well: ‘the common market has nothing to do with lawyers’

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06.11.2025 08:50 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Beyond constitutional identity: Thinking identity in constitutional law | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Beyond constitutional identity: Thinking identity in constitutional law

Another contribution on FirstView to our symposium on constitutional identity: Laurianne Allezard on concepts of identity.

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28.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The 1989 buy-Danish clause: making sense of legal error through allodoxia | European Law Open | Cambridge Core The 1989 buy-Danish clause: making sense of legal error through allodoxia

Down to be wrong. On FirstView, Magnus Esmark goes on a Bourdieusian walk through the Buy Danish saga

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23.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In search of an independent tribunal: activating the European Court of Human Rights, 1969–1974 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core In search of an independent tribunal: activating the European Court of Human Rights, 1969–1974

How the ECtHR came to life through pressure groups and entrepeneurial academics. Wild stories beautifully told by Wiebe Hommes on FirstView.

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22.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

Is this Europe?: EU law’s rendering of European society | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Is this Europe?: EU law’s rendering of European society

Is it?

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06.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The securitization of competition in the European Union | European Law Open | Cambridge Core The securitization of competition in the European Union

On First View: Ophelia Bentley and Kathleen McNamara on the turn in competition policy towards securitization. Hugely important stuff.

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05.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Judicial review in EU merger control: towards deference on issues of law? | European Law Open | Cambridge Core Judicial review in EU merger control: towards deference on issues of law?

On First View: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo on the increasing deference the CJEU shows the Commission on legal issues in merger control.

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23.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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