Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nawa'y maging kasing buting ama ako ng ama ko. Maligayang kaarawan, dad. Hinahanap hanap ko parin parati ang araw-araw nating mga tawag. 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026VP 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...youtube.comQueen sacrifice and levy dance 😅YouTube video by Brilliant chess 👏 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026youtu.be/fzesr4IUBqI?... a monumental ruling by the Philippine Senate impeachment courtyoutu.beBREAKING: Senate impeachment court votes to revise 16-vote conviction threshold | ABS-CBN NewsYouTube video by ABS-CBN News 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Jose 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." 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The 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. 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 06/09/2026For 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. 000
Reposted by Bo TiojancoEdward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Pathways 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... 042
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?...youtu.beMagnus Carlsen SACRIFICED His QUEEN on Move 10 in a WILD EWC FinalYouTube video by GM CHESS LESSONS 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My review of Andrew Harding's pathbreaking book on local governments in Southeast Asia academic.oup.com/icon/advance...academic.oup.comAndrew Harding. Territorial Governance in Southeast AsiaThis 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 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man. The brilliant translator of the Iliad and the Odyssey's review of Nolan's IMAX blockbuster share.google/xp1r7d8Ru4x8...share.google 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 11/07/2026philippinelawjournal.org/board-of-edi...philippinelawjournal.orgBoard of Editorial Consultants - Philippine Law JournalThe 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... 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Complimentary 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... 110
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Many 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 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I 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. 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/04/2026My 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...giappichelli.itThe Principle of Proportionality in Asia, Europe, and North America 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Art Collab with my 5 year old daughter. I did the pencils of hello kitty & she did everything else. 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Proud husband post: Rebecka sharing her diplomatic journey on the Swedish Government's website. www.regeringen.se/artiklar/202...regeringen.seViljan att utforma och bidra till vår framtidRebecka Koziomtzis har arbetat på UD i två och ett halvt år och gick diplomatprogrammet under vårterminen 2025. Till hösten är det dags för hennes... 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Cool Stockholm metro detail my son noticed: Pacman being chased by the ghosts (with one ghost far behind) 000
Reposted by Bo TiojancoAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty 581395488672
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 02/01/2026www.philstar.com/headlines/20...philstar.comSupreme Court in 2025: Rulings that shaped jurisprudenceWhile some of these cases carried significant political weight, others will have a direct impact on everyday lives. 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Carlsberg should probably be the beer of choice of academics... 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I love working at the office. @utokyoofficial.bsky.social 110
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Parrying 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....papers.ssrn.comParrying 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 020
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 03/10/2025What I'm reading for an academic freedom & comparative constitutional studies paper: the intellectual process of Einstein, Newton, and other Physicists 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 26/07/2025newsinfo.inquirer.net/2087132/sena...newsinfo.inquirer.netSenators: 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) 010
Reposted by Bo TiojancoCorinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 17/07/2025big 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 !! 1161
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Just 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...zjapanr.de 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... 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Beer with legal historians in between conference events at Hungary. We missed you @fernandapirie.bsky.social . I'm sorry to hear about your luggage. 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 05/07/2025edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/e...edition.cnn.comChina tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official says | CNNChinese 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... 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/06/2025our special issue of @globcon.bsky.social is finally out! The New Comparative Political Process Theory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgGlobal Constitutionalism: Volume 14 - Issue 2 | Cambridge CoreCambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 2 010
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The thesis I'm supervising cites "Usher (2015)" leading my brain to suddenly play "You Make me Wanna" in my head 000
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 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro. 011
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025When I'm in Tokyo working at the office is better than working from home 000
Reposted by Bo TiojancoDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/04/2025In 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.democracydocket.comSupreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime LawRead more here. 62354105
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/04/2025ceoworld.biz/2025/04/06/b...ceoworld.bizBest Universities In The World For 2025 - CEOWORLD magazineMassachusetts 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... 000
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Foodcourts in Japan provide rags to customers so they can wipe their tables clean after eating. 100
Reposted by Bo TiojancoGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A 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. 5044210712555
Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 07/04/2025pcij.org/2025/04/06/m...pcij.orgEven the mightiest political dynasties fall silent—and fade away - PCIJ.orgFirst 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... 000
Reposted by Bo TiojancoThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/04/2025A 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... 1161151500