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On First View, Loïc Azoulai on the naissances latentes of European society and its law.

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European society and its law: EU law in light of social theory | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
European society and its law: EU law in light of social theory
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December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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On First View: @zacharymazur.bsky.social unravels a complicated story of interwar authoritarianism in Poland.

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Who’s the sovereign? Legitimating constitutional authoritarianism in interwar Poland | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Who’s the sovereign? Legitimating constitutional authoritarianism in interwar Poland
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December 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Strengthening national military–industrial complexes rather than building a coordinated European defence framework? Marco Dani and Agustín Menéndez on keeping freedom free in the EU.

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The EU’s (not so) cheap talk on defence | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
The EU’s (not so) cheap talk on defence - Volume 4 Issue 3
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December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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New issue dropped! Thanks to @sarahvahed.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social @koenvanzon.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social and the others for some brilliant work.

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European Law Open: Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - European Law Open - Volume 4 - Issue 3
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December 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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On FirstView- Mala Loth on the unlikeliest of legal entrepeneurs to write the history of European legal integration. Fascinating stuff.

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Rethinking the Marshall-Cases ‘from below’: Helen Marshall as a legal entrepreneur in Southern England and Luxembourg, 1978–1993 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the Marshall-Cases ‘from below’: Helen Marshall as a legal entrepreneur in Southern England and Luxembourg, 1978–1993
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November 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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On First Viuew: Julian Waller on Electoral authoritarianism 1.0.

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Authoritarianism before democracy was standardised: conceptualising interwar-era electoral authoritarianism, the liberal inheritance, and institutional-hierarchical alternatives | European Law Open | ...
Authoritarianism before democracy was standardised: conceptualising interwar-era electoral authoritarianism, the liberal inheritance, and institutional-hierarchical alternatives
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November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The symposium is coming together nicely: Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth write the introduction cum manifest on bottom-up legal history. @koenvanzon.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social

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Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000
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November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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On FirstView: Chris Thornhill on violence as the not-so mystical foundation of constitutionalism.

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Constitutional subjects: the formation and fracture of constitutional legitimacy. Towards a phenomenology of law and violence | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Constitutional subjects: the formation and fracture of constitutional legitimacy. Towards a phenomenology of law and violence
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November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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On FirstView: our own @lolaavril.bsky.social writes a history of the European legal profession. It started out so well: ‘the common market has nothing to do with lawyers’

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‘A Community Frame to Habits and Traditions?’ – A socio-historical account of the attempt to build a European Legal Profession (1957–1977) | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
‘A Community Frame to Habits and Traditions?’ – A socio-historical account of the attempt to build a European Legal Profession (1957–1977)
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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Another contribution on FirstView to our symposium on constitutional identity: Laurianne Allezard on concepts of identity.

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Beyond constitutional identity: Thinking identity in constitutional law | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Beyond constitutional identity: Thinking identity in constitutional law
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October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Down to be wrong. On FirstView, Magnus Esmark goes on a Bourdieusian walk through the Buy Danish saga

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The 1989 buy-Danish clause: making sense of legal error through allodoxia | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
The 1989 buy-Danish clause: making sense of legal error through allodoxia
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October 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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As told by @whommes.bsky.social it's as good
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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How the ECtHR came to life through pressure groups and entrepeneurial academics. Wild stories beautifully told by Wiebe Hommes on FirstView.

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In search of an independent tribunal: activating the European Court of Human Rights, 1969–1974 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
In search of an independent tribunal: activating the European Court of Human Rights, 1969–1974
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October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Is it?

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Is this Europe?: EU law’s rendering of European society | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Is this Europe?: EU law’s rendering of European society
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October 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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On First View: Ophelia Bentley and Kathleen McNamara on the turn in competition policy towards securitization. Hugely important stuff.

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The securitization of competition in the European Union | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
The securitization of competition in the European Union
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October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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On First View: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo on the increasing deference the CJEU shows the Commission on legal issues in merger control.

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Judicial review in EU merger control: towards deference on issues of law? | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Judicial review in EU merger control: towards deference on issues of law?
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September 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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On First View: important historical work by @historikarin.bsky.social and @koenvanzon.bsky.social on different pathways to mobilisation of EU Law.

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Preparing for disaster: the Seveso directive, infringements and societal mobilisation of European law, 1976–2000 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Preparing for disaster: the Seveso directive, infringements and societal mobilisation of European law, 1976–2000
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September 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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On First View: Pietro Ortolani, @cgoanta.bsky.social, @sarahvahed.bsky.social, and Alan Sanfey test some behavioural assumptions in the DSA. People are strange when you're a stranger.

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The Digital Services Act and the psychology of social media content reporting: drawing legal inferences from a behavioural experiment on notice-and-action mechanisms | European Law Open | Cambridge Co...
The Digital Services Act and the psychology of social media content reporting: drawing legal inferences from a behavioural experiment on notice-and-action mechanisms
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September 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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It's not just that Integration-Through-Law no longer holds: it never did. Robert Schütze goes to town.

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‘Integration-through-Law’: grand theory, revisionist history | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
‘Integration-through-Law’: grand theory, revisionist history - Volume 4 Issue 2
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August 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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On FirstView, @boskotripkovic.bsky.social argues that constitutional identity presupposes- rather than limits- respect for fundamental rights. Seriously brilliant stuff.

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Constitutional identity vs fundamental rights: a false tension? | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Constitutional identity vs fundamental rights: a false tension?
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August 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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On First View, the first paper in our constitutional identity symposium. Francois-Xavier Millet on the shift from la loi to le droit: 'the very discourse of constitutional identity in France may be the swan song of the proud republican tradition.'

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From messianic republicanism to global constitutionalism: the paradigmatic changes of French public law through European law | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
From messianic republicanism to global constitutionalism: the paradigmatic changes of French public law through European law
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August 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Přibáň wraps up the symposium on Constitutional Imaginaries in our latest issue by engaging with his critics

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European constitutional imaginaries: rejoinder | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
European constitutional imaginaries: rejoinder - Volume 4 Issue 2
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August 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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On First View, the first contribution in our symposium on (interbellum) authoritarian encounters. Fascinating work by Paula Borges Santos.

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Path dependence and political bargaining in the elaboration of contents of authoritarian constitutions: the Portuguese Constitution of 1933 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Path dependence and political bargaining in the elaboration of contents of authoritarian constitutions: the Portuguese Constitution of 1933
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August 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Many thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social for putting together the Marxism and EU Law symposium. Good stuff, and long overdue.

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Introduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Introduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law - Volume 4 Issue 2
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August 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM