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Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social.

Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism".

There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? Yesterday's #election in #Hungary forces us to grapple w/ the politics of "𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨." In @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @chrishillion.bsky.social, @ascherz.bsky.social & I have an argument- and warning- from Poland 👇thread

PRIO researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage awarded the 2026 Fritt Ord Prize – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Historian and PRIO Research Professor Hilde Henriksen Waage has been awarded the 2026 Freedom of Expression Prize by the Fritt Ord Foundation, in recog ...

Hilde Henriksen Waage har fått Fritt Ord for sin uredde og kompromissløse sannhetssøken om Oslo-prosessen

På PRIO er vi dritstolte av Hilde i dag, og hver dag hun er ute og uttaler seg med sin karakteristiske, frie stemme

Kjære Hilde, gratulerer masse, svært velfortjent!

www.prio.org/news/3695

Liberal democracy not dead yet. Next - Netanyahu.

EU Law Litigation (Chapter 15) - Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law - May 2026

Interested in legal mobilization & strategic litigation? Check out my new open access chapter w/ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social! We ask: who litigates EU law? Who wins @ @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social? W/ what downstream impact? New dat/comparisons to litigation in the US included! tinyurl.com/bdznr98v

First, EU law litigation is not only driven by resourceful business and trade associations, but also by a surprising abundance of resourceless individuals and a paucity of labor unions and advocacy groups. Second, individuals, labor unions, and trade associations are most effective in influencing the ECJ, but in counterintuitive ways: whereas labor unions and individuals prompt liberalising rulings that restrict national autonomy, trade associations prompt protectionist rulings. Finally, individuals and advocacy groups are better able to attract attention and shape downstream legal debates via litigation than businesses and trade associations. The “haves” are certainly protagonists of EU law litigation, but they are neither the sole nor the most effective protagonists.

Beyond a comprehensive survey of what we know/still don't know about EU law litigation, we have three overarching findings that complement/contextualize our 2025 @bjpols.bsky.social article w/ @louisabo.bsky.social on why individual "have nots" come out ahead at the CJEU (see: cup.org/4oWD6ZT)

How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.

The West Bank is being slo-mo ethnically cleansed, and it is happening on our watch. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Normalt før en krig forventer vi at eliten målrettet forsøker å bygge støtte i befolkningen og internasjonalt, ved å legitimere hvorfor det er nødvendig. Se Bush og Iraks masseødeleggelsesvåpen, eller Putin og ideen om at Ukraina aldri har eksistert. Trump får begge til å virke som poeter..

Den eneste personen som per nå sitter i fengsel for Epstein-sakene er fortsatt mektig nok til å hestehandle åpent med USAs president om en benådning, mot at hun vitner i hans favør. Presidenten har ikke utelukket det.

Debi tirar mas fotos

124km/h and no protection besides the helmet 🫣🫣

The male genius myth is harmful to everyone. As a Nordic female academic, I was shocked by the culture when I was a visiting scholar at Harvard. It is so much better to be a female professor in the Nordics!

Norway is good at getting medals at the winter olympics and at befriending Epstein …

De er de mest privilegerte i Norge og til og med det får de ikke til på en grasiøs måte.

Congratulations 🥳

Read my new WP 🚨

Precarious positions? Gender, quotas and the politics of (re)appointment How does judicial constraints impact the decision-making of female and male judges, and female judges appointed under a quota? I argue that the gender-based selection bias female judges face during t...

Sharing my latest working paper where I investigate the effect of being appointed under a gender quota on judicial behaviour. Are female judges appointed under a quota in more precarious positions, and as a result are they more loyal towards their appointing authority? Find out: tinyurl.com/548n33kn

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of international courts like the European Court of Justice on individual rights and civil society, highlighting their role in promoting legal claims and supporting networks.

From November 2025 -

Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy - cup.org/4oWD6ZT

- @silje-hermansen.bsky.social, @tommasopavone.bsky.social & @louisabo.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Junior Law and Politics community sign-up The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

📣 Junior scholars in public law & courts! The Junior Law & Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for our Spring 2026 virtual seminar series. Grad students, postdocs & junior faculty encouraged to apply! ⏰ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great opportunity to work with one of the best and kindest researchers in the field!

(+) Asle Tojes dommedags­profeti har ingen støtte i forskningen på samfunnskollaps Det er grunnleggende menneskelig å bekymre seg for at ens barndomskultur er i endring, men å omtale slike endringer som «sivilisasjonskollaps» er ikke seriøs samfunnsanalyse.

«Hvis det finnes et historisk mønster som sier noe om sammenhengen mellom multikultur, liberalisme og sosialt, økonomisk og politisk fremskritt, er det det helt motsatte av den nasjonalkonservative dommedagsprofetien.» www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/asle-t...

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w

well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017:

academic.oup.com/book/61769

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026

Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

“Is the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social a social court protecting the ‘have nots’ or an economic court beholden to the ‘haves’?” @silje-hermansen.bsky.social, @louisabo.bsky.social & I have an answer on @verfassungsblog.de. This holiday season, our analysis give us reason to be biased for hope:

quote: “Across thousands of cases argued before the Court, individuals who claim individual rights win systematically more often than more resourceful clients – including businesses that tend to show up with better lawyers.”

Is the ECJ a plaything of the powerful — or a protector of the weak?

New litigation data suggests a clear answer.

TOMMASO PAVONE, SILJE SYNNØVE LYDER HERMANSEN & LOUISA BOULAZIZ show how the Court levels the odds for individual rights claimants.

verfassungsblog.de/is-the-europ...

European news sites on social media (8 countries, 56 selected media)

European news sites on social media
(8 countries, 56 selected media)

- X dominates as microblogging platform, but a crisis is looming: some major news European outlets have archived their X accounts over the last year, for reasons of disinformation...

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