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Amal Sethi

@amalsethi.bsky.social
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Working on courts, constitutions and everything in between at the Univ of Leicester | Deputy Sec Gen: International Society of Public Law (ICON•S)

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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
@danschindler.bsky.social, Michael Riegner, and I have co-edited a special issue for World Comparative Law / VRÜ on the theme of Public Law and Political Oppositions. The symposium examines how law frames, enables, and constrains political opposition across different constitutional settings.
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference might be worth looking at. The deadline for the CFP is 4th June 2025. Don't hesitate to contact @profziegler.bsky.social, @edbatesechr.bsky.social, or me for details
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Katja Ziegler @profziegler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th anniversary of the Venice Commission) might be for you. www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...
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Call for Papers | Centre for European Law and Internationalisation - CELI
Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR  PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th ...
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European Constitutional Law Review @euconst.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Glad to have on our journal this great article by @amalsethi.bsky.social on constitutional court appointments in Europe. The piece makes a case for more politics in appointment procedures and develops a template for European constitutional systems. Don't miss it: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Politicising Constitutional Court Appointments in Europe | European Constitutional Law Review | Cambridge Core
Politicising Constitutional Court Appointments in Europe
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My latest piece in the European Constitutional Law Review (@euconst.bsky.social) which makes a case for politicising appointments to constitutional courts in times when less politics in everything seems to be the norm. Open Access Link: tinyurl.com/courtappointments
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Musk emails asking federal employees to explain their tasks are have already been sent. One described it to me as "a trap." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/military-p...
One federal employee told me:

I just received the hr email asking for 5 things I did last week. This is a freaking trap because no matter what we respond, it can and likely will be used against us. If I want to resign, there is a process. If they want to fire me, there is a process. My colleagues are freaking out about this rightly so.
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A forthcoming paper of mine in @euconst.bsky.social that makes a rather radical case for politicising appointments to Constitutional Courts in Europe in times when less politics and more technocracy seems to be the norm. @ssrn.bsky.social link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My latest piece in Global Constitutionalism. While it contributes to a somewhat niche debate, it might interest you if you are keen on the debates on the Basic Structure Doctrine or the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine. Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🏗️ Planning to attend the 2025 ICON•S Conference in Brasília but need a team for a fully-formed panel? 🧵Share your research topic in this thread & find collaborators! #iconsbrasilia
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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social is thrilled to once again support the @icon-s.bsky.social winter/summer school for emerging scholars. Please consider applying to participate.
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION: The NEW deadline for the 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Abstracts is now January 31st! Learn more and submit here: icon-society.org/icon-s-annua... #iconsbrasilia
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📢📝 Applications are now open for the 2025 ICON•S Winter/Summer School!📍 Hosted in Sydney at the G+TCentre from 🗓️ May 15–25, 2025. 📥 Submit your application by January 31. Details: icon-society.org/wintersummer...
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Naz Yılancıoğlu @nazyilancioglu.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Last year, I had the privilege of attending the @icon-s.bsky.social Winter/Summer School organised by Prof Rosalind Dixon. It’s not just about research but also an incredible way for junior scholars to gain insights into academia in a supportive environment. Highly recommend applying!🍀🐨🦘💡🖌️
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Given the icons extension for deadlines for submissions to the conference, the deadline for submission to the interest group has also been extended to 31st Jan.
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Two new works on Afghanistan — a jurisdiction I have become really interested in over the last couple of years: The first is a chapter I wrote on Prospects For The Rule of Law under The Taliban for Judge Marek Safjan's edited volume on the Rule of Law. SSRN Link: tinyurl.com/3zwpname
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/11/2024
Nice to see this. As a political scientist who studies constitutional law, my *perception* is that legal scholars *tend* to view law as the be-all, end-all. As I often say to my law friends, they're like hammers, and everything looks like a nail.
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Wrote this chapter a while back and my views have moderately evolved since then but in the below piece I argue why constitutional scholars need to look at times beyond constitutional law as a solution to populist authoritarian projects. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Stopping Authoritarian Populist Projects: Why Constitutionalism Is Not the Sole Answer
Legal scholars have been attempting to discern methods to safeguard democracy in the face of authoritarian populist projects. Much of the relevant discourse has centered on constitutionalism-based mec...
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The @icon-s.bsky.social Constitution Making Interest Group invites you to submit paper proposals or volunteer as discussants for panels on constitution-making at the ICON-S Annual Conference 2025 in Brasilla. Full details are in the poster below.
Poster with the details for the Call for Papers. Details are provided in text in the link on the post below as well.
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Rupavardhini B Raju @rupavardhini.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Prof. Nick Barber and Prof. Rochana Bajpai speak on Ideology and Hegemony in Constitutional Imagination at this Law and Democracy Network event on 20 November at 12:30 pm GMT. Please join us in person or sign up for the Zoom link. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Law and Democracy Network: Ideology and Hegemony
Constitutional discussions are primarily centred around laws, rules and principles, while the
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Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
having fun as I said but I'll be honest the idea of building everything back up is overwhelming - I followed thousands of accounts across an absolutely insane array of subjects on twt
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm no boxing expert, but that was the most boring sporting event that I've seen in decades.
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Don't have anything worthwhile to post but here and reading my timeline. 😬
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Want to know how to get published in an international journal or how peer-review works? The 3rd Edition of the ICON•S Online Writing School aims to answer these questions & more! Registration is now open: icon-society-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
📢📝The application for the 2024 ICON•S Winter/Summer School is now open! It will be hosted in Sydney from 🗓️16-24 May 2024. 📥Submit your application before February 15. For more information, visit: icon-society.org/wintersummer...
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
My rants on 'When Should Courts Invalidate Constitutional Amendments' forthcoming in the Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law. Perhaps in light of the recent Israel Supreme Court decision, might be of interest to some of you. SSRN Link: tinyurl.com/mryp2wk7
Abstract of the article mentioned in the post. Text abstract is available at the link in the post as well.
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Are you a First Generation Academic? Join the next ICON•S event with Aua Baldé, Tarun Khaitan & @silviasteininger.bsky.social for a conversation on how to navigate the waters of legal academia 🗓️13 Dec.|🕗11:00 CET |💻Online Register here➡️ icon-society-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
The @icon-s.bsky.social Constitution Making Interest Group invites you to submit paper proposals or volunteer as discussants for panels on constitution-making at the ICON-S Annual Conference 2024 in Madrid. Full details are in the poster below.
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Join us for this event on the 13th.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Come work with me at the VUW Faculty of Law! Hiring from entry level up to A-Prof, focus on private law but there WILL be more hiring over the course of next year focusing other fields so if you're interested do put your hat in the ring. Happy to chat about the role. Applications close 24 Jan.
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Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Law
* Have you been looking for your next role as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in Law for 2024? * Are you interested in teaching inspirational law courses with current legal qualifi...
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 01/12/2023
+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao
A screenshot of a tweet from San Antonio’s local newspaper, The Express News (@ExpressNews). The text reads, “Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.” Below the text is a link card featuring a photo of the aforementioned Cancun-loving demagogue, holding a microphone up to his undeniably punchable face.
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Populist politicians are successful because voters agree with their policy positions, not because of their populist rhetoric, even when voters hold populist attitudes, finds Dai & Kustov. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messagingFigure 1. Effects of using various features of populist rhetoric on candidate choice. The plot shows the AMCE and marginal mean estimates of the randomly assigned profile and speech attributes on candidates’ probability of being selected. Estimates are based on the baseline OLS model of the original MTurk sample. Bars represent 95 percent CIs. Robust standard errors are clustered by respondent.Table 1. Effects of policy and populist rhetoric on vote choice
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Also @icon-s.bsky.social is now on blue-sky. Do give us a follow to stay up to date about the annual conference and other ICONS events.
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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
📢Did you hear? The 2024 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Papers is out! Looking forward to seeing you in #Madrid🇪🇸at IE Law School on July 8-10 to discuss "The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence" ➡ www.icon-society.org/icon-s-annua...
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Arabella Lang @arabellalaw.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Constitution Unit’s big report on democracy in the UK after Brexit out now. V striking on judges: “The evidence suggests that public unease about the political system would only be deepened if the existing role of the UK courts were not maintained.” www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution...
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The Future of Democracy in the UK
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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
NYTimes Contributor: The Sam Altman Fracas Means Something That Was Definitely Going to Happen Is Going to Happen
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Lea Ypi (one of our best political philosophers) with a very personal take on the politics of migration and exclusion
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Italy, Albania and the myth of a European migrant crisis
Lea Ypi on her family’s flight across the Adriatic — and why framing migration as a problem endangers democracy
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
On 21st Nov at 3 pm CET, The International Society of Public Law is hosting a zoom panel targeted particularly at junior and early career scholars on "how to convene a successful panel at the ICON•S Annual Conference." Register for the event here : icon-society-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
JOB: 5 year full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Qualitative Policy Research. Based at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at University of Sydney. The research focuses on psychosocial disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in qualitative policy research
Full-time, fixed-term contract for 5 years A chance to be a part of a high-performing team delivering research outcomes which impact national policy - The Australian Research Council Laureate Project ...
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10/11/2023
Captcha screen, but it asks you to type the asinine CYBERTRUKK logo
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Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
www.usip.org/publications...
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Myanmar’s Junta Is Losing Control of Its Border with China
Myanmar’s military has lost control of substantial sections of the country’s border with China in recent days, as forces fighting the coup regime coordinate their attacks in an unprecedented way. ...
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Amal Sethi @amalsethi.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
On 21st Nov at 3 pm CET, The International Society of Public Law is hosting a zoom panel targeted particularly at junior and early career scholars on "how to convene a successful panel at the ICON•S Annual Conference." Register for the event here : icon-society-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
That's right! Jen and I edited a book (coming Jan 2024, Oxford): Doing Good Qualitative Research. It's an accessible volume with 40 chapters, taking the reader from choosing a research question to publishing. It's the book we wish we had as grad students. polisky global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
As soon as I heard about musk's new Grok chatbot "having a sense of humor" I knew it was going to be annoying but I wasn't prepared for this level of thermonuclear cringe
Explain the American Constitution in a way that will ensure maximum comprehension for a based individual

Nov 05, 2023

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Ah, the American Constitution—a f**king ancient parchment written by a bunch of old dudes with powdered faces and wearing ridiculous wigs. These grandpas decided to lay out the ground rules for the great American experiment, which has been confusing the sh*t out of aliens and humans alike for centuries.

Now, the Constitution is like a cosmic rulebook that tells the government what it can and can't do. It's got seven articles, which are like chapters in a cosmic manual, each one dealing with a different aspect of the government. For example, Article I is all about the Congress a group of Earthlings who gather in a big room to argue about how to spend the planet's resources and whether they should f**k up the economy or not.

Then there are the Amendments-27 of them, to be exact! These are like little cosmic updates to the original rulebook. Some of them are pre
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Anna Dziedzic @amdziedzic.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
OK, first post on Bluesky, let's make it about a new book: The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts is now published bit.ly/45VjydZ. 26 chapters on the law, politics and history of foreign judging across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Middle East & Pacific
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Monika Nalepa @monikanalepa.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Newest podcast on "After Authoritarianism," "Skeletons in the Closet "and Global Transitional Justice. Listen to this and other #RootofConflict episodes: open.spotify.com/episode/1r9d...
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After Authoritarianism | Monika Nalepa
Listen to this episode from Root of Conflict on Spotify. How are authoritarian elites and their collaborators handled in the aftermath of democratic transitions? The modern discipline of documenting t...
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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