The #judiciary in #Greece are astonishingly, and embarrassingly, timid towards people of #power (any power, political, money, or otherwise).
True, any judiciary has a built-in bias in favour of powerful people.
The Greek one has it in the superlative
There was a time when constitutional theory's main concern was whether government may oblige people eat broccoli.
But then again there was a time whose Taylor Swift was called the Beatles
I posted a very short but I think sort of interesting paper on the idea of transformative constitutionalism, including reactionary tc: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
There's something deeply rotten with Greece's judiciary.
Talk to me about "institutions" saving "(il?)liberal democracy" from evil anti-institutional populists
#AuthoritarianLiberalism
#Greece
Yes, that's the real story
I'd go for Kate Bush's version any day
youtu.be/-1pMMIe4hb4?...
Quite the contrary.
The man *should* become a king.
The only way the UK government would, probably, consider abolishing monarchy
Preorder for parents (or self)
Bad idea top to bottom. We need a move against juristocracy, not for better judges. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...
One aspect of the Epstein "saga" is about rich people from the ruling classes showing off, even bragging, they are above the law.
People from the working classes should not fall in the trap.
The rich are already criminals for being rich. Even more so when they abuse their privilege on top of that
Oh my dog
Judging from the Greek government spokesperson's colossal legal illiteracy, I genuinely believe that law schools should be granted the power to revoke law degrees
Imagine a deeply corrupt "3rd world" failed state whose coast guard is its most corrupt service, and is effectively owned by the very persons the service is supposed to monitor, ie shipowners.
Now imagine how unhinged and above the law that service would feel and act.
Pure imagination, of course
Al (as in Bundy, Gore, or Pacino) looks exactly the same as AI (as in artificial intelligence) in social media printed English.
I have no clue whatsoever why's that, and what to do with that
There's nothing *social* in the apex of late capitalism individualism that is called social media (which are actually neither social nor media)
Law (of any kind) loses its legitimacy, and hence its effectivity, incrementally.
Do not react to a breach of law, and you'll get another one next. And then another one.
Until you got no law any more
Much of constitutional law scholarship rests on the assumption that the judiciary are, by definition, the good guys that will help the people confront the bad guys, the enemies of democracy and rule of law.
Am I absurd to think this is an absurd and unfounded assumption?
Eat the rich
Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
Whoever came up with the term homo "sapiens" clearly didn't have twitter
I consume. Therefore I am
For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As part of my Parliamentary Fellowship, I've co-authored with David Torrance a short research briefing on parliamentary sovereignty. I'm working on a (much) longer piece, which will be out in 2026!
@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Hugh Grant would be a better PM still applies.
And has been for several years now.
Makes you wonder about the state of liberal democracy when peoples tend to consider their political leaders as grossly inadequate or even plainly clowns
Let's hope Chileans are not as self-destructive as US Americans are
Excellent article on the role of the president in a parliamentary republic.
While it refers to the Republic of Ireland, students of other parliamentary republics would find it most interesting
OK, it is to *teach* them, but you get the point
Morricone.
Spaghetti westerns wouldn't be the same without his music
Americans are so bad at making movies it took two Italians to learn them how to make the quintessentially American film genre, western
