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Juha Tuovinen

@juhatuovinen.bsky.social
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Constitutional lawyer at Durham Law School

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 17/06/2026
Hungarian academic freedom has been systematically curtailed under Orbán, culminating even in the relocation of the CEU to Austria. RENÁTA UITZ explores how academic freedom is being reshaped today – and how it must be revisited. verfassungsblog.de/restoring-ac...
The thorniest issues are funding and control over the governance of knowledge.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 02/06/2026
Hungary's constitutional moment has arrived – but so has the risk of repeating 1989's mistakes. GÁBOR HALMAI on why popular enthusiasm must be channelled into constitutional moment. verfassungsblog.de/the-rise-and...
Two-thirds of Hungarians would like to see Viktor Orbán brought to justice for the crimes he committed against them.
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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My paper “Bureaucracy and Distrust: the Civil Service in the Constitution” has been published in Current Legal Problems. It looks at the UK civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. It's open access. currentlegalproblems.org/article/bure...
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Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution - Ben Yong
Faith in democracy and established institutions seems to be at a low ebb. Democratic backsliding – the weakening or evisceration of institutions designed…
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Michaela Hailbronner @mhailbronner.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
My book is finally out open access,dealing w arguments from failure, i.e. when institutions act in legally problematic ways because others have failed to do their job. It is comparative & should be interesting (I hope), even if it doesn't hold all the answers. www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
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The Failures of Others | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Selection committees: please send us a copy of your PhD certificate Also selection committees:
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Se-shauna Wheatle @seshauna.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Hurricane Melissa has done catastrophic damage to Western Jamaica. We are used to hurricanes, but this is the worst hurricane on record that has ever hit the island. There has been devastation to infrastructure and housing. If you are able to, please donate to relief efforts: supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In memory of Conor Gearty, Public Law's 2007 symposium on his Hamlyn Lectures, "Can Human Rights Survive?" is available to read here: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...
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Gaurav Mukherjee @gauravmkjee.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Thanks for the “recommended” tag, Larry! Excited to share my job-market paper, which uses the recent religious charter school case to show how faith-based entities secure public funds while sidestepping constitutional limits—a phenomenon I term “private disestablishment.”
Abstract for the article 'Private Disestablishment'
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Gaurav Mukherjee @gauravmkjee.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Thanks for highlighting, Larry! This chapter argues that education law has privileged parental choice & religious freedom while sidelining equality. I argue for re-centering education as a right that secures both liberty & equality—the foundation of democratic citizenship.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"The sabotaging of what normally is a consensual procedure is a test-run for prying away ever more members of the center-right from what remains of Angela Merkel’s legacy through US-style culture war."
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Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany
Jan-Werner Mueller worries that the governing Christian Democrats is beginning to engage in opportunistic norm-breaking.
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Public Law Conference @publiclawconf.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The next Public Law Conference will be held at University of Cape Town, 1-4 July 2026. The theme is Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy. 2026 marks the 30 year anniversary since the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. More details coming soon.
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Giuseppe Martinico @martinicogi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
1/3 Academic freedom is becoming an increasingly pressing issue worldwide, challenged in diverse political and legal contexts. Here are some recent resources : Special issue on academic freedom, edited by Kriszta Kovács and Janika Spannagel: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Global Constitutionalism: Volume 14 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 1
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 03/07/2025
Publication day! 💫 Our Verfassungsbook “Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024”, edited by ANMOL JAIN (@anmoljain-law.bsky.social) and TANJA HERKLOTZ (@tanjaherklotz.bsky.social) is now available in print and online! 📚 Check it out now! verfassungsblog.de/books/
Cover of the Verfassungsbook "Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024".
The Cover is based an map created by Arun Ganesh.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’d strongly prefer being called a (potentially) “lucky loser” than being on the reserve list…
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Beauty of the English language: "in sync" is so much crisper and more elegant than Gleichschaltung.
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Remember those - partially very silly - changes that Meta announced to its content moderation policies in January? The @oversightboard.bsky.social has pushed back gently but it may also have adapted its own approach to better suit Meta's new stance...
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 21/05/2025
Why the new Hungarian Transparency Bill is an attack on the foundations of the European Union: RENÁTA UITZ on the notorious transparency bill, why constitutional democracy in Hungary is under threat — and what the European Union should do now. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-tran...
Quote: “It is now on the European Commission to halt the retrogressive measures that Hungary is implementing in an attempt to reshape the Union’s founding values.”
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is an under-appreciated point in much of the thinking about democratic backsliding - much of society continues as "normal" and many not actively participating in the cruelty will even benefit in some way. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 25/04/2025
What if a TikTok ban says more about empire than about safety? MARIE LAUR (marielaur.bsky.social) uncovers how the French TikTok ban in New Caledonia exposed colonial legacies at the heart of digital censorship and emergency powers. verfassungsblog.de/the-tiktok-b...
Quote from our published article by author Marie: “Both the ban and its judicial review highlight and perpetuate the longstanding French tradition of experimenting with emergency powers to control the colonies and their populations.”
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I have yet to read this carefully but I'm surprised the Meta Oversight Board allowed the display of the apartheid era South African flag. It's considered hate speech in SA and very few people would display if not to support apartheid. www.oversightboard.com/decision/bun...
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Posts Displaying South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Flag | Oversight Board
Following a review of two Facebook posts containing images of South Africa’s 1928-1994 flag, the majority of the Board has upheld Meta’s decisions to keep them up. They do not clearly advocate for exc...
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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
1/7 Can the executive ‘safeguard’ the constitution? The UK Constitution Committee says yes, but I worry. The plural UK executive means this is unlikely. And if we want internal executive checks like the civil service to work, we need to strengthen them now. Trump 2.0 is a warning.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🚨NEW ARTICLE 🚨 with Adam Peresman, @honoratam.bsky.social & @thoruplars.bsky.social We show that those often seen as most critical of research - populists! - have relatively *high* trust in scientists across 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 & are willing to follow their advice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵(1/4)
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A good explainer of the constitutional theory side of Trump
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Call for papers! @katyhayward.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social, Ewan Smith and I are organising a conference on parity of esteem as a constitutional principle at QUB on 9-10 April. We've a few slots for presenters left, so still time to submit an abstract! www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...
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Call for Papers - Conference: Parity of Esteem under the Good Friday Agreement and Beyond | Research | Queen's University Belfast
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Jessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Along with Stuart Macdonald and @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social, I am compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social. We already have a fantastic line up of contributors, but now we are looking for more!
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The one where Ben figures out Parliament's pronouns.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Great piece by @jonhenley.bsky.social. I get to outline the vicious cycle of far right support. As mainstream parties move right on immigration, voters adjust their positions to the right, far-right support increases, mainstream parties move more to the right... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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‘Vicious cycle’: how far-right parties across Europe are cannibalising the centre right
Hardline agendas, especially on immigration, are copied by mainstream conservatives in vain effort to win back votes - but it’s not working
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Absolutely appalling…
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Gaurav Mukherjee @gauravmkjee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
On Friday, the US Supreme Court granted cert on an Oklahoma case about religious charter schools. In this post @lpeblog.bsky.social, I sketch the law & politics of the future of public education & the place of religion in our public life. A thread on the arguments 🧵 lpeproject.org/blog/america...
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America’s First Religious Public School?
This past Friday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that concerns the first religious charter school in the United States. But this case is not merely about school choice or religious freedom…
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I can think of worse ways to start the year than finding out that my work has been cited by the SA Constitutional Court…
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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
My initial thoughts on the legal challenge to the Trudeau prorogation, now in blog form on @verfassungsblog.de.
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
However "crazy" we may find Elon Musk's recent behavior, part of what makes it dangerous is that he is *not* perceived as a "crazy far-right person". He has a reputational shield, built outside of politics, which makes him very well placed to influence voters who are not diehard extremists. 1/4
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 08/01/2025
For all the big talk, Meta have subsequently clarified that there will be no changes to its EU systems for the time being. I think this is a signal that Zuckerberg will aim to preserve company value by complying with local law, leaving the fines, loss of revenue, reputational damage, etc. to Musk.
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A good read for those interested in how the constitution is under attack in Finland…
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Tomás Daly - Call me Tom @democracytalk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
⚡LAUNCH - RESISTING THREATS TO DEMOCRACY The word on everyone's mind is 'resistance'. How can institutions, politicians, civil society and citizens push back against wannabe authoritarians? Check out our new focus area on Demoptimism. www.demoptimism.org/resisting-th... #democracy #resistance
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Resisting Threats — Dem-Dec
RESISTING THREATS
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If the AI says I’m a grandmother, then I guess I’m a grandmother.
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David Vitale @davidvitale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I am hiring a post-doc fellow to work with me on my new ESRC, T-AP project, "Open Constitutional Democracy", w/ @odileammann.bsky.social & Michael Pal. It is a 2-year, full-time post, starting around 1 Apr 2025. Deadline to apply is 15 Dec 2024. Please share! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Research Fellow (109616-1124) - University of Warwick
Title: Research Fellow (109616-1124). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Intentional or not, imagining parallels with the non-fictional DA made for a fun thought experiment.
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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Still trying to add to this - if you have any colleagues who you might want to add, tag them!
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great interview on the Hungarian LGBTQI case before the CJEU
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Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Starter packs are the authoritative reference works handbooks wish they were.
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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Building a comparative constitutional law starter pack - let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LQqBn6D
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