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Harm Schepel
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Professor of Economic Law, University of Torino. Managing editor, European Law Open.
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Women and the sacred: Ilenia Ruggiu asks the constitutional question.

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Constitutional identity and patriarchy: the exclusion of women from the priesthood as a constitutional problem | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Constitutional identity and patriarchy: the exclusion of women from the priesthood as a constitutional problem
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January 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Political authority and direct rule in the activist EU: Floris de Witte on First View.

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Rule in the New European Union | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Rule in the New European Union
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December 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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We're trying very hard not to make a joke about Christmas King Carol. On First View, Cosmin Cercel on the construction of authoritarian rule in interwar Romania.

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The threshold of emergency: sovereign power, constitutional change and the spectre of Civil War in 1938 Romania | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
The threshold of emergency: sovereign power, constitutional change and the spectre of Civil War in 1938 Romania
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December 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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L'ora del potere esecutivo: Orlando Scarcello on the legal thought of Constantino Mortati in fascist Italy.

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Italy’s authoritarian turn as executive dominance: Costantino Mortati’s early writings (1931–1944) | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Italy’s authoritarian turn as executive dominance: Costantino Mortati’s early writings (1931–1944)
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December 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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This is how it is done: posit a problem, sketch out a theoretical framework, apply said framework to the analysis of the material. Excellent work by Tom Bouwman on First View.

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Not all consumers are the same: how is the differentiation between consumers operationalised in EU consumer law? | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Not all consumers are the same: how is the differentiation between consumers operationalised in EU consumer law?
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December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The revolution will not be televised. But it is available on FirstView: @martijnhesselink.bsky.social proposes to occupy the European Commission’s recent plans for a 28th legal regime.

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Prefigurative EU law | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Prefigurative EU law
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December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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How European society produces 'a core where EU values are fully guaranteed, and a periphery where they disappear.' Toni Marzal has important things to say.

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EU values and the place of European society: an external-focused account | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
EU values and the place of European society: an external-focused account
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December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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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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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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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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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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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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