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Bo Tiojanco

@botiojanco.bsky.social
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Family man. Lives in Sweden. Teaches Transnational Law & Political Economy at the University of Tokyo. Writes on Constitutional Law. Graduated from Yale Law School and the University of the Philippines.

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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nawa'y maging kasing buting ama ako ng ama ko. Maligayang kaarawan, dad. Hinahanap hanap ko parin parati ang araw-araw nating mga tawag.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
VP Duterte's impeachment trial. The prosecution used chess to explain that Sara, the Queen, is the most powerful player on the board. Well, in chess sacrificing the Queen to force checkmate is always a brilliant, spectacular, exciting move. Exhibit A: youtube.com/shorts/BJGMS...
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Queen sacrifice and levy dance 😅
YouTube video by Brilliant chess 👏
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be/fzesr4IUBqI?... a monumental ruling by the Philippine Senate impeachment court
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BREAKING: Senate impeachment court votes to revise 16-vote conviction threshold | ABS-CBN News
YouTube video by ABS-CBN News
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jose Rizal: "buy books by Filipinos; mention now and then names of Filipinos like Pelaez, Garcia, Burgos, Graciano, etc.; quote their phrases...cite their works...We have to bring forward our first ranks."
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The defense lawyers were really good in previous impeachment trials, President Erap's and Chief Justice Corona's. This is the first impeachment trial I'm watching where the prosecution lawyers appear clearly better than the defense lawyers.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For the 2026 Swedish elections, the liberal conservative/ center right party's platform includes free preschools and after schools for all families. That would be a far left platform in the U.S. Scandinavian social democracy works.
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pathways to Constitutional Legitimacy in Asia Pacific Edited by Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, Jaclyn Neo, Benjamin Lawrence and Kentaro Matsubara This Open Access title is free to read / download on Elgaronline doi.org/10.4337/9781... Available in print on our website www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
This book explores the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism around the world. Contributing authors evaluate typologies of revolutionary, elitist, and establishmentarian constitutional orders to answer the question: what does it mean for a constitution to be borne out of a revolution?
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"You sacrificed the Queen in the opening?! This is madness!" "Madness? You began with the Caro-Kann. Refused my Queen's Gambit. Forced me into the Panov. Oh I've chosen me moves well, Lazavik... Madness? THIS. IS. MAGNUS!" youtu.be/izJlg8TEu0g?...
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Magnus Carlsen SACRIFICED His QUEEN on Move 10 in a WILD EWC Final
YouTube video by GM CHESS LESSONS
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My review of Andrew Harding's pathbreaking book on local governments in Southeast Asia academic.oup.com/icon/advance...
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Andrew Harding. Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia
This book splendidly fills not so much a gap as a void in constitutional scholarship. A recent survey of Local Government Studies, a leading journal in the
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man. The brilliant translator of the Iliad and the Odyssey's review of Nolan's IMAX blockbuster share.google/xp1r7d8Ru4x8...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Beach and pragmatism
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Board of Editorial Consultants - Philippine Law Journal
The Board of Editorial Consultants is composed of faculty members, scholars, and legal practitioners with recognized expertise in various fields of law. The Editorial Consultants serve as an internati...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Complimentary copies just arrived! I wrote chapter 7: "Where's the party? The tragic flaw of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution". This will be freely available soon at www.elgaronline.com/view/book/97... . For more info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/pat...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Study buddy
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Many wealthy countries today were poor or devastated after World War 2. Their postwar generation invested in their country instead of corrupting it. Politicians who really care about their children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren wouldn't steal from the People but serve them
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I wish corrupt politicians would realize that the middle class in a working democracy live far better lives than the elite in a dysfunctional oligarchy. You don't need a fancy car in a walkable city with a good metro. You don't need to be filthy rich in a wealthy welfare state.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My latest publication, coauthored with @pstamase.bsky.social : Proportionality's Potential in the Philippines - a chapter in The Principle of Proportionality in Asia, Europe, and North America (2026) www.giappichelli.it/the-principl...
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The Principle of Proportionality in Asia, Europe, and North America
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Art Collab with my 5 year old daughter. I did the pencils of hello kitty & she did everything else.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Proud husband post: Rebecka sharing her diplomatic journey on the Swedish Government's website. www.regeringen.se/artiklar/202...
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Viljan att utforma och bidra till vår framtid
Rebecka Koziomtzis har arbetat på UD i två och ett halvt år och gick diplomatprogrammet under vårterminen 2025. Till hösten är det dags för hennes...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Cool Stockholm metro detail my son noticed: Pacman being chased by the ghosts (with one ghost far behind)
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My complimentary copy just arrived
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Supreme Court in 2025: Rulings that shaped jurisprudence
While some of these cases carried significant political weight, others will have a direct impact on everyday lives.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Full moon @utokyoofficial.bsky.social
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Carlsberg should probably be the beer of choice of academics...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I love working at the office. @utokyoofficial.bsky.social
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change. This is @pstamase.bsky.social & my chapter for Ngoc Son Bui & Mara Malagodi (eds), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Vol 2: Constitutional Amendments (Hart 2024) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change
<p>This chapter explains why the 1987 Philippine Constitution remains unamended despite repeated attempts. It advances three related arguments: first, although
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What I'm reading for an academic freedom & comparative constitutional studies paper: the intellectual process of Einstein, Newton, and other Physicists
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Nice day to work outside
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Senators: Sara Duterte impeachment court to proceed despite SC order
[Updated July 25, 2025, 9:31 p.m.] MANILA, Philippines — Senators on Friday said the impeachment court against Vice President Sara Duterte would still proceed even after a Supreme Court (SC)
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
big fan of LPE but feel weird about the Project's association with Yale/it being grant-funded? well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot) give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Just published:Journal of Japanese Law (@maxplancklaw.bsky.social ) special issue on Comparative Political Process Theory. These are the Japanese author papers from the 2023 conference at @utokyoofficial.bsky.social organized by our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...
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Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht
Die 1996 gegründete Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law versteht sich als internationales Periodikum für in- und ausländische Wissenschaftler und Praktiker mit Interesse am jap...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Beer with legal historians in between conference events at Hungary. We missed you @fernandapirie.bsky.social . I'm sorry to hear about your luggage.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official says | CNN
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Last note to the kids before flying to Tokyo
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
our special issue of @globcon.bsky.social is finally out! The New Comparative Political Process Theory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Global Constitutionalism: Volume 14 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 2
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The thesis I'm supervising cites "Usher (2015)" leading my brain to suddenly play "You Make me Wanna" in my head
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
When I'm in Tokyo working at the office is better than working from home
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/04/2025
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport people under an 18th century wartime law. However, it stipulated that those subject to law are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime Law
Read more here.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Best Universities In The World For 2025 - CEOWORLD magazine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been ranked No. 1 in the world in the Top 500 Global Universities, according to the CEOWORLD magazine University Ranking 2025.  The CEOWORLD magazine Un...
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Foodcourts in Japan provide rags to customers so they can wipe their tables clean after eating.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Even the mightiest political dynasties fall silent—and fade away - PCIJ.org
First of 2 parts Some dynasties fade away from politics and public consciousness due to lack of successors, defeats to emerging clans or even “erosion of narrative.”  Once among the who’s who in Phili...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/04/2025
A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
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