Great letter in today’s Irish Times on Jim O’Callaghan’s new proposals for IP family reunification:

Call for abstracts for "New Voices in International Law", an early-career workshop to be held in Trinity College Dublin on 22 May 2026.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: @tcddublin.bsky.social Law School & @tricondublin.bsky.social are organising an ECR workshop for PhD researchers, postdocs, and junior academic staff working on international law on the island of Ireland (north & south). Send your abstracts in by 30 January!

The programme is here! TriCON New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop features 6 brilliant ECRs tackling diverse research inquiries, with expert feedback from leading constitutional law academics - plus a keynote session by Prof. Leah Trueblood. @tricondublin.bsky.social

Deadline for submission of abstracts July 31st!

Jackson Lears · The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror Once the US became the world’s only superpower, universalist fantasies proliferated. But after 9/11 they widened,...

The Righteous Community www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Submissions are open for the 'TriCON New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop'. An excellent opportunity for PhD candidates & ECRs in Ireland working on public/constitutional law to get expert feedback on their research. @tricondublin.bsky.social

Judge grants Palestine Action urgent hearing to try to stop ban taking effect Co-founder of protest group to be given opportunity to apply for ‘interim relief’ to prevent proscription order * UK politics live – latest updates Palestine Action has been granted an urgent high court hearing on Friday to try to prevent a banning order against the direct action protest group coming into effect. An order is due to be laid before parliament on Monday which would proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation, making being a member of – or inviting support for – Palestine Action a criminal offence carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail. Continue reading...

Judge grants Palestine Action urgent hearing to try to stop ban taking effect

UK to ban campaign group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws Britain said on Monday it would use anti-terrorism laws to ban the campaign organisation Palestine Action, making it a criminal offence to belong to the group after its activists damaged two UK military planes in protest at London's support for Israel.

The potential proscription of Palestine Action is an explicit use of terrorism designation as a mode of societal control by threatening supporters with terrorism offences.

Government confirms it will ban Palestine Action under anti-terror legislation – UK politics live It will become a criminal offence to belong to the campaign group which damaged two military planes last week

This is a dangerous lowering of the bar regarding what counts as terrorism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Legal positivism at its finest!

Ahdaf Soueif | Day 250 Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in...

‘Most hunger strikes are undertaken by prisoners. But unlike her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah, unlike the 9000-plus Palestinians prisoners on hunger strike in Israel now, unlike Bobby Sands and his comrades in the 1980s, Laila Soueif is able to play out her drama in public.’

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

The Programme looks fascinating! Is there a way to attend it online?

Quote: “It is now on the European Commission to halt the retrogressive measures that Hungary is implementing in an attempt to reshape the Union’s founding values.”

Why the new Hungarian Transparency Bill is an attack on the foundations of the European Union:

RENÁTA UITZ on the notorious transparency bill, why constitutional democracy in Hungary is under threat — and what the European Union should do now.

verfassungsblog.de/hungary-tran...

Since the Supreme Court judgment in Akdogan, this is a strict liability offence.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Do you know any PhD students who would like to help teach British Politics at UCL for a term next year?

If so, we have a PGTA role! Please do share this ad among your networks.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Quote from the article: It is a time for courage and for the institutions of knowledge, of law and lawyers to resist – clearly, and repeatedly, for all have a stake in preserving knowledge-related freedoms and the rule of law

The Trump administration's assault on the rule of law is increasingly focusing on institutions of knowledge and law.

VICKI C. JACKSON (@harvard.edu) on a "multipronged attack", why knowledge institutions are crucial for democracies - and why it is time to resist.

verfassungsblog.de/education-de...

The executive appoints the legislature and the judiciary (only for 5 years). Unchecked emergency powers. Selective/ ambiguous religious 'jurisprudence' (not principles or established rules) is the principal source of legislation.
A new one-man-rule totalitarian political project in the making.

Delighted to present my reflections on the interactions between liberal constitutionalism, preventive justice, and property rights in legal countering terrorism at SLS Public Law ECR Workshop. Thanks @chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social @michael-lane.bsky.social for the great opportunity!

Taoiseach signals major policy shift on housing with possible end to rent pressure zones and more reliance on private sector Micheál Martin has said the State needs to ‘pivot’ to encourage more private investment in the housing market

The Irish government’s plan to stimulate housing supply is to keep rents high and drive them higher, oblivious to a decade of record high rents having failed to improve supply www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

'Lying like hell': Elon Musk extends online attacks on EU countries to Ireland The European Commission has warned Mr Musk about not breaching EU laws on amplifying harmful content

I'm quoted in this Irish Examiner story on Elon Musk's attempt to misrepresent the Irish criminal justice system by relying on a case from over 20 years ago. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

The irony of the neoliberal dispensation in a academia is the refusal to apply something like a cost-benefit analysis to competition itself

A new eposide of the ongoing legitmacy concerns related to preventive counter terrorism measuers: the political nature of terrorist proscription regimes and the lack of legal reasoning in regard to listing and de-listing procedures.

It would be nice if 30+ years after I am in the ground, people were going through old harddrives to find unpublications.

But it is a bit unlikely, to say the least.

He was a lovely writer Hart.

Thank you @antonhur.com for this thread

What is happening right now in South Korea is just a reminder that "well-established" constitutional democracies are not immune to the executive abuse of emergency/exceptional powers.

The Center of Advanced Studies on Reflexive Globalization and the Law at Humboldt University, Berlin, has opened its call for residential fellowships for '25-'26, with stipends, with a focus on colonial legacies in constitutional & criminal law. Deadline Feb '25
www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/reg...

Building a comparative constitutional law starter pack - let me know if you’d like to be added!

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Anti-Terror Legislation and Property Rights in Egypt: How Counter-Terrorism Regimes Impinge on Property Rights and the Rule of Law In January 2023, the Egyptian cabinet introduced a new bill for parliamentary discussion proposing the establishment of a new body to manage seized funds and assets confiscated by the state, including...

My blog post on @verfassungsblog.de shows how Anti-terrorism legislation impinge on property rights to a degree that is constitutionally unacceptable. These observations are linked to my PhD project looks at interactions between preventive justice, countering terrorism, and property rights.

Using my inaugural Bluesky tweet (is it a tweet?) to share details of our Society of Legal Scholars Public Law Section workshop for ECRs @chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social.

Hosted online on 26/2/25. Workshop will comprise short papers and guest speakers. Details below 👇