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📢Call for papers for a special issue📢 Together with Matus Misik we are putting together a special issue proposal on the 20th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement and welcoming abstracts by 31 August 2022. Full call for papers here: networks.h-net.org/node/73374/ann…

Getting ready for my first ICON-S presentation. #iconswroclaw

Such a wonderful feeling to talk about ethics and academic integrity, (and legal issues) to our undergraduate students at Masaryk University 😊 We definitely have to share the practices that define our work!

Great news from Hubert Smekal! His co-authored piece "Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union" is out. Published in West European Politics.

The call for papers to ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshop on Judicial Resilience and Democratic Decay, co-organised by K. Šipulová & Ø. Stiansen, is still open. If you are working on a similar topic, do not hesitate to apply here until Monday, 9 January ecpr.eu/Events/Event/P…

As part of a book project on knowledge, I have completed a review of post-1945 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆. The chapter is posted here: ssrn.com/abstract=43651… In a word, I conclude that democracy has 4 key properties⬇️ For more, read this🧵

Can court-packing ever be legitimate? Our piece (David Kosar, JUSTIN@BRNO) is finally out and the question it posits cannot be more relevant than today. academic.oup.com/icon/advance-a…

Many congratulations to David Kosar and Katarína Šipulová! A must-read article exploring the legitimacy of court-packing. International Journal of Constitutional Law academic.oup.com/icon/advance-a…

I cannot imagine a better place for my first Law and Society conference 🇵🇷 #LSA2023

Thrilled to share the news that my article on the bargaining behaviour of the European Parliament in #Brexit is now published in The Journal of Legislative Studies Taylor & Francis Research Insights Routledge Politics, IR & Area Studies. Link to 50 free copies: tandfonline.com/eprint/BS5VVYM… Thread on its key arguments below🧵

🇵🇱The election results in Poland have revived the hope for RoL renewal in EU, but also the question what the new government should do with courts packed by PiS. Is un-packing now in order? Read our piece with D.Kosar in Transitions 2.0 by Bobek et al. at nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/978374…

Exciting news! 🎉 Our special issue on Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay in Europe is out in The German Law Journal. Dive into insightful contributions by JUSTIN members & external experts from our ERC INFINITY project. cambridge.org/core/journals/… German Law Journal Právnická fakulta MU

What an amazing topic!!! Francesco Biagi Catarina Santos Botelho Giacomo Giorgini Pignatiello Giuseppe Martinico

Does judicial resistance have a dark side? My new piece on agency, motivations, and compatibility of resistance strategies with the rule of law is finally out in Law&Policy. Special thanks to editors of an amazing special issue Igor Logvinenko & Michael Dichio.

Great news! Our edited volume with Bjoern Dressel ANU Crawford School of Public Policy and Alex Stroh Universität Bayreuth *Informality and Courts* is now available for pre-order on Edinburgh University Press's website. You can apply the code NEW30 for a 30% discount. Coming out this December! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-informali…

New publication out with the ideal co-author Leonardo Puleo in EJRR in which we discuss the tension between EU's rule of law regulatory approach as developed over the past decades and compliance IEE-ULB (Bruxelles) SciencePo ULB Available here cambridge.org/core/journals/…

It's here! Our book *Informality and Courts* (Edinburgh University Press 2024) has arrived La Trobe University It has been such a wonderful collaboration with my co-editors Bjoern Dressel (ANU Crawford School of Public Policy), and Alexander Stroh (Universität Bayreuth), and with an excellent group of great scholars/colleagues (1/2)

First paper in JEPP ❗️ 📝 Carlos Closa Montero and I examine national governments’ preferences on RoL enforcement from 2016-2021 and the factors shaping them tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…