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Jaakko Husa
@husajaakko.bsky.social
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Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d
New issue of the Journal of Comparative Law (20:2) contains autobiographical essays of comparatists ("comparative lawyers"), including yours truly. Below you can see my essay's last page with some thoughts on the field and its future.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d
Sharing one of my, hopefully, entertaining comparative law memes on this platform.
Meme with to panels. Top panel describes civilised discussion under the heading ‘Comparatists discuss the importance of their discipline’. Bottom panel under the heading ‘Comparatists discuss the method of comparative law’ shows utter chaos and aggression.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d
"Codified Constitution is not a description of reality."

— Antero Jyränki
(my past friend and mentor)

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d
Yours truly at a conference dinner.
Famous scene from the movie Goodfellas but this time the gangster played by Joe Pesci asks "How is comparative law funny?"

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d
Former F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen would know what to say to the Reviewer 2:

“Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing”
a man in a carrera uniform holds a bowl of popcorn in his right hand
Alt: Kimi Räikkönen eating popcorn
media.tenor.com

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d
Seems like a "fine" specimen indeed. 🙄

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d
Just saying that Sir David is pro-life, not anti-human.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
www.theguardian.com

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5d
Hart Publishing has now added a description of my book on their website.
www.bloomsbury.com/au/contraria...
Contrarian Jurists
This book presents a unique study of the field of comparative law examining the key differences between schools and approaches and examining their contradiction…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5d
We can learn thinking patterns from the US government. Here goes:

The claim "reptilian aliens have not replaced important people" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that reptilian aliens have replaced important people.

F*cking brilliant, eh?

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
I started in June 1992 😬

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
I am not busy at all. In my ivory tower I just stay aloof, haughty, and unaware of ordinary problems of real people. So, I discuss abstract things with my learned colleagues, sip wine all day, and look down on everyone without PhD. Is that not what modern academia is about?

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
Perhaps it's just me but I find it weird and worrying that the White House press briefings look so North Korean.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
I feel seen...
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Me after every social interaction
Arthur, from the hit PBS show of the same name, sits at a grand piano, covering his eyes with his hands and crying saying “I must have made at least fifty mistakes”

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
A short PhD advice dialogue

PhDer: "Can you recommend a book about academia?"

Me: "Lord of the Flies."

PhDer: "Really?"

Me: "It focuses on a group of academics in a Faculty and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves."

Reposted by Jaakko Husa

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Thorbee @thorbee.bsky.social · 6d
Me after every social interaction
Arthur, from the hit PBS show of the same name, sits at a grand piano, covering his eyes with his hands and crying saying “I must have made at least fifty mistakes”

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
😬

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d
During my years in academia I have learnt so much. For instance, academia taught me how to make nasty backhanded compliments.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d
Behold! I organised my office.
Boring view of an office room with clean desk in the middle and bookcases on right and left.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d
Would you apply for a professorship in the US now?

I thought so.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d
This is about Sweden but it works in the other Nordic countries too. share.google/onb3BQzENVlp...
Lillördag: Sweden's workers de-stress with 'Little Saturday'
As the weeks drag on and individual days lose meaning, embracing a Nordic tradition may give us reason to celebrate, just because.
share.google

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d
Drinking day for the Nordics...

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d
William Barbey has taken a dare of writing a review of "Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law" 3rd edn, edited by Smits, Husa, Valcke and Narciso (2023). No small feat because the encyclopedia consists of 1736 double-column pages.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
International law and women’s history: historical methods for egalitarian scholarship
Published in Comparative Legal History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d
Wednesdays are like small Saturdays. Right?

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d
That was the first phase, true. Reform's rise to power (if it really happens) may the the second. The second phase would mean hammering Brexit into the heads even of those who have nurtured hope.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d
Consider this. If Reform really is the next governing party in the UK, how might that affect the desire of foreign academics and students to come to the UK to work and study there?

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d
You're doing just great. Pay no attention to those bitter losers.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 10d
Online now...
Professor Danneman's Valedictory lecture: "How (Not) to Compare Laws"

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 11d
I started to get involved with comparative law/legal studies in the early 1990s. Moominpappa describes perfectly what my first 15 years were like:

"I knew nothing, but I believed a lot."

- The Exploits of Moominpappa

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 11d
Me looking in kitchen cabinet: "No more Moomin mugs, this is enough!"

Also me: "Oih!"

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 13d
It is clear that we do not like all that we have published. This presents a problem: how should a scholar think about their arguments with hindsight?

Orhan Pamuk has an interesting point:

"I don't judge my characters."

Perhaps we should treat past arguments as characters?