Tobias Lock

Deutschland: Brosius-Gersdorf zieht Kandidatur zur Verfassungsrichterin zurück Die Juristin will nicht mehr für das Bundesverfassungsgericht kandidieren, wie mehrere Medien berichten.

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Der #CDUCSU gelingt eine einzigartige Beschädigung des #BVerfG und einer geschätzten Kollegin. Am rechten Rand der Republik knallen die Sektkorken. Wir gehen unruhigen Zeiten entgegen.

It’s how Swiss people must feel. Weird.

I am on Deutsche Bahn and the train appears to be a minute early!

EU Commission proposes partial suspension of Israel association with EU research programme Horizon ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The tabloid press is on the case already... It's going to be a long few years for EU-ECHR aficionados.
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That’s interesting given that the law school renamed the Lorimer Room for this reason after the renovation of Old College a few years back.

Screenshot from Commission register of documents listing a Commission decision to ask the CJEU about the draft accession treaty on the basis of Article 218 TFEU, which gives the court jurisdiction to rule on whether a draft treaty is compatible with EU law

EU Commission to ask CJEU to rule on whether the latest attempt to draft a treaty for EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law

Graph from financial times showing home ownership has dropped more sharply in anglophone countries than Western Europe.

A graph that sums up an issue that is having an impact on all policy areas in Ireland - housing. The % of homeowners in the Irish 25-34 age group has dropped by over 40% since the 1990s. If the govt don’t sort this out we’ll all pay the price. on.ft.com/4kVfBNS

Associate Prof at The School of Law and Criminology, Dr John Reynolds was invited to give expert evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

See: tinyurl.com/3cvzzfwb
@seanmacr.bsky.social

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Rechtshistorikertag 2026 Rechtshistorikertag 2026

The call for papers for the 45th Rechtshistorikertag in Vienna 2026 is now live: rht2026.univie.ac.at

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Quote: An obligation to quantify each country’s fair share of the remaining global carbon budget associated with limiting global heating to 1.5°C flows from the judgment in KlimaSeniorinnen.

How wide is the margin of appreciation that states have when setting national carbon budgets under the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? 🌍📉

@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog.

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homeowners next year following the decision by councillors to scrap discounts for the first time since the tax was introduced more than a decade ago. The move by Dublin City Council members to increase the property tax means homeowners will face charges of €18.50 to €797.15 more next year than in 2025, depending on the value of their home. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Greens, Labour and the Social Democrats supported the end of the discount, saying LPT was “progressive” and a “wealth tax”. Sinn Féin, most independents and People Before Profit voted to retain the discount.

Irish politics remains impenetrable to outsiders because the most left wing grouping oppose a property tax, while those on the right approve of it.

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und die Verfassung der Deutschen - Eine Rekonstruktion.

Am 25. Juni um 18:42 verändert der Jurist Ekkehart Reimer laut „t-online“ gezielt den Wikipedia-Eintrag von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und fügt eine Passage zum Thema „Schwangerschaftsabbruch“ hinzu.

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? GAA clubs are found in every corner of Ireland, but you'll find surprising pockets of football clubs in so-called hurling counties and vice-versa

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by @germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Donncha O'Connell: There’s plenty of advice for students who still wish to travel to the US. But why would you? Even the most ardent Trump supporter would agree that the internet is too large to police in anything like the comprehensive way the new visa restrictions suggest. The chilling effect is the point

I have an opinion piece in today’s Irish Times on restrictions to freeeom of speech arising from changes to the US student visa application process…and related matters to do with Trump, his supporters and enablers…

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Israel's war in Gaza has killed over 17,000 children. These are the stories of 28 of them Haaretz

I don't know what to say. Honestly, I don't.

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Congratulations, Mariana. A fantastic achievement.

For and against a united Ireland - pre-sale - signed copy This book will be available in October 2025 - pre-orders will be sent out the week of publication.    The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voter...

Irish Unity: For? Against? Both.

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride explore both sides of the Irish unity debate with intellectual depth and balance.

📆 Out 20th October
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🎤 National Concert Hall & Lyric Theatre Belfast to come
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Good choice!

PACE elects Hugh Mercer judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the United Kingdom The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today elected Hugh Mercer as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the United Kingdom. Mr Mercer, having obtained a major...

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has elected Hugh Mercer as the UK’s next judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇

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#Democracy #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #ECHR
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Fry Me to the Moon. 8.35pm. 11th to the 24th of August. Cabaret Voltaire.

I’m doing a show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year!

Tickets here:

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ICEL Members' Committee - Practice and Procedure before the CJEU - Irish Centre for European Law The ICEL Members’ Committee is delighted to host a practical afternoon seminar on CJEU Practice and Procedure, which will take place in hybrid format, both in the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre (DDR...

"Practice & Procedure before the CJEU"
-An Irish Centre for European Law Event

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-practical insights into the workings of the CJEU
-Appearingin the CJEU/Briefing Counsel
-Advising clients on trajectory of EU proceedings
-adopting a strategic approach to EU litigation

Applications open for Downing Professorship of the Laws of England @cambridgelaw.bsky.social https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51789/

The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that | Lanre Bakare History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunism, says Lanre Bakare, an arts and culture correspondent for the Gu...

This piece is well-meant, but includes the unfortunate statement that “most of the people attacking immigrants and the police were Protestants whose own families emigrated to Ireland generations before” …
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Now published on @publiclaw.bsky.social

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First time I've ever had two submissions come out in one edition of any journal, let alone @publiclaw.bsky.social. To dilute the purity of this bragging post a little, thanks to @anuragdeb.bsky.social and Mary Dobbs for putting up with me as co-author!

Why is my landlord offering a licence & not a tenancy agreement? There are important distinctions in law between those who occupy a premises under a tenancy or under a licence

Why is my landlord offering me a licence and not a tenancy agreement? There are important distinctions in law between those who occupy a premises under a tenancy or under a licence, writes Una Woods @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Excellent. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!