Tom Ginsburg's @tomginsburg.bsky.social RGCS Lecture, "Governing Across Time: Transitional Provisions in Constitutions," is now available on the Lin Centre's YouTube channel— the 42nd RGCS Lecture posted.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=roay...
Join us tomorrow to learn about the CCP's new tools!
🔧 sartori.network — map conceptual landscapes
🔧 Constitution Comparison — track text changes & borrowing
🔧 Domain Comparison — assess ontology overlap
🔧 Segments-as-Topics — test topic formulations
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“Voting is a joyful thing”: Students Won a Revolution in Bangladesh. They Want So Much More. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...
In his new article, Victor V. Ramraj asserts that #constitutionallaw must be pluralized, engage with other disciplines, and focus on holistic problem-solving to address our age of #extremes.
Available in #English and #French at tinyurl.com/yyv6ffpw.
In their new article for CS, Adam Chilton, Arthur Langlois, Jan-Ulrich Dittmer, and Mila Versteeg assess what #AI knows about comparative #ConstitutionalLaw.
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NEW: From Prison to Exile: Leopoldo López and the Fight for Venezuela
In this episode of Entitled, we speak with activist Leopoldo López about authoritarianism, resistance, U.S. interventionism, and the future of Venezuela.
Listen now:
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Our new issue assesses constitutionalism in the age of extremes. Explore these extremes and potential responses with pieces on #academicfreedom, #economicinequality, #executivepower, #diplomaticextremes, #AI, #constitutionalreform, #courts, #teachinglaw, and more.
Read at tinyurl.com/5n7zxtp6.
Excellent panel discussion in Delhi @UChicago . Among many other issues we talked about the idea of indigenizing constitutional jurisprudence www.barandbench.com/news/law-pol...
Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social, the Chicago Forum’s Faculty Director, was quoted in the Boston Globe on the March 2025 arrest of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk — an incident he says has “profound” implications for free expression.
Read the full story here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...
"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
We Should Teach Our Students How to Think, Not What to Believe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...
Some days you hate the New York Times: quibbling over Maduro drug connections is trivial. Nobel Prize for Venezuelan Dissident Draws Criticism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
Trump's construction of a "hyper-presidential" system
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In his latest article for Persuasion, Chicago Forum Faculty Director Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social analyzes how a second Trump administration could shift the balance of power within the U.S. government by moving toward a hyper-presidential system.
www.persuasion.community/p/the-hyper-...
We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
Preview of next week's issue! @zalali.bsky.social, Arcioni & Gover, Böckenförde, Gargarella, Hirschl, Suteu, Trochev & Juzgenbayev, Yeh & Chang, & @marie-joellez.bsky.social on state of field. Lady Hale & @cherylas1.bsky.social on judicial and constn'l work, and more!
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NEW: Why Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer is Losing Faith in the Justice System
This episode, hosts @cfloed.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social speak with Khalil's lawyer, @baherazmy.bsky.social, about what his case means for the future of dissent and academic freedom.
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Building on @tomginsburg.bsky.social & Huq, we theorize "democratic frontsliding" as a subtype of democratization. The obstacles to frontsliding are "autocratic enclaves" surviving a democratizing election. We make the normative & legal case for "restorative disobedience" to break up these enclaves
NEW: Are We Witnessing the End of the Postwar Order? With Former UN President Dennis Francis
Hosts @cfloed.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social and former President of the General Assembly Dennis Francis on threats to global cooperation and human rights.
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What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Fuck you. [no, not you, those are the two words]
Geof Stone's two word response to Northwestern University policy on speech, requiring civil modes of presentation:
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“You can’t have democracy without facts.”
@uchicagolaw.bsky.social professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social’s keynote at #StiglerAntitrust2025 unpacked how attacks on knowledge institutions—from media to the census—undermine the foundations of democracy.
🧵 Key moments ⬇️
agreed, though with all due respect it has started long ago. lets hope Harvard accelerates its progress.
@tomginsburg.bsky.social calls for "digital freedom of assembly" by ensuring the portability of personal data. I've written about this concept before with former colleagues at the Data Transfer Initiative.
www.techpolicy.press/why-the-inte...
#StiglerAntitrust25
Thoughtful post from @tomginsburg.bsky.social. www.persuasion.community/p/where-are-...
I'm investing heavily in Kool-Aid. It's made here in US of A and GOP demand is likely going to continue to go through the roof.