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Mauricio M. M. @mauriciomm7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As an intermission to my social media hiatus, I am happy to share that I will be at APSA 2026 in Boston, MA presenting my paper "Finding Law: Organized Interests and the Confinement of Executive Primacy" The paper asks: who shapes the legal rules articulated by the European Court of Justice?

Filing written observations before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is a key channel through which private actors, national governments, and the European Commission shape legal rules. While the Commission’s legal service has historically asserted interpretive primacy as “guardian of the Treaties,” recent scholarship highlights the influence of member states and private litigants. This article asks: under what conditions do private actors and governments displace the Commission as the main source of court rulemaking? Using newly available full-text observations from 2022–2025, I measure whose proposals—Commission, member states, or private parties—most closely match the Court’s operative part. Results indicate that the Commission’s presumed interpretive dominance no longer holds. Member states are nearly as likely as the Commission to propose rules closest to the Court’s reasoning, while private actors’ proposals are closest in over one-third of cases, though individual rights claimants are less successful.

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APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Apex Court’s Dilemma: Rulemaking Alignment Under Hierarchical and Political Constraints dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-d4nld… #polisky

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Mauricio M. M. @mauriciomm7.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Happy to be at my first APSA in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I’ll be presenting "The Apex Court’s Dilemma: Rulemaking Alignment Under Hierarchical and Political Constraints" 🧵

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Mauricio M. M. @mauriciomm7.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Today I realized that in the pursuit of genuine scientific inquiry, one does not accumulate facts, but rather maps the contours of knowledge itself —what is knowable and what is not with our current tools. A kind of epistemic cartography, tracing the topology of truth as it stands at present.

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. 👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science. 📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

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Siv Cheruvu @sivcheruvu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its fall seminar series on zoom! Submit by August 25 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psworkshop

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Junior Law and Politics community sign-up

The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

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Viri Rios @viririos.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The president of the Mexican Senate, Noroña, rose to fame defending the working class—but he has changed. Today, I’m writing about how he blames workers for their situation👇🏽 elpais.com/mexico/opini...

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Noroña, silenciador en jefe

Crecido en el estridentismo, el líder del Senado comienza a ponerle el pie a su propio partido

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 24/03/2025

Restoring the rule of law in Poland without inflicting further damage on it is a vexing challenge. JOHN MORIJN (@jmorijn.bsky.social) explains why the Venice Commission could have made this task even more complicated and sketches a way forward. verfassungsblog.de/restoring-po...

Quote: “For the Polish government, and for all democracy-minded legal actors in Europe, the legal and strategic solution has always been, and remains, to leverage international and EU standards.”

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

YouTube suggested this Eric Weinstein talk and I'm more depressed than ever. A wild mishmash that starts with anti-trans bigotry and emasculation fears (to frequent applause), concluding with...quantum gravity? I would laugh if people like this didn't rule the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdJ...

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Why the West is waking up from a 70 year nap | Eric Weinstein [ARC 2025]

YouTube video by Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There is a pending infringement action but for some mysterious reasons, the European Comm has failed to apply for interim measures... This is just a self-defeating strategy IMO. As if the Guardian of the (EU) Treaties is reluctant to do the job it was set up for while HU goes full authoritarian mode

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Solveig Bjørkholt @sunny369.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Happy to announce that my first article is finally in print in Political Science and Research Methods (PSRM).

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Democracy Reporting International @democracyreporting.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

⚖️ How resilient is Germany's constitutional system? As far-right positions gain traction and centrist parties increasingly compete by adopting some of their views, democratic institutions may face one of their toughest tests yet. Shortly before the elections, we wanted answers to this question 👇

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RECLAIM @reclaim-eu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Poland joins the Commission’s lawsuit against Orbán’s Foreign Agents Law—showing that the real threat to democracy isn’t Brussels, as Orbán claims, but those who erode it from within and serve Putin’s agenda. 𝗗𝘇𝗶𝗲̨𝗸𝘂𝗷𝗲𝗺𝘆, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝘀𝗸𝗮! 💓

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

American Bar Association on Trump & Co: "These bold assertions, designed to intimidate judges by threatening removal if they do not rule the government's way, cross the line". On suggestions to disobey court orders: "These statements threaten the very foundation of our constitutional system"

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One week left to apply for this PhD fellow position!👇

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Jørgen Bølstad @boelstad.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

❗️We are hiring tenured associate professors of political science. The department is looking for competence in political behavior, data science, and a few other subfields. Come join us!

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ARENA Centre for European Studies @unioslo-arena.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New publication 📃 Andreas Eriksen and Erik Oddvar Eriksen has published an article in International Journal of Public Administration, in which they develop a concept of multilevel reasoning. Read the open access article here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Multilevel Reasoning: Conciliation and Deference in Complex Administrative Orders

How to assess the agency of administrative bodies in systems of complex interdependence? The article develops a concept of multilevel reasoning that is constituted by two attitudes towards inter-in...

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you feel that BlueSky is “different“ from X, the data supports you :) Using a network of 15M users (56% of the platform) we find that the probability that the log-normal law is wrong wrt to the power-law is just ~7% Why that matters? Pop 🧵 follows! 1/ #scaling #NetSky #ComplexSystems 🧪

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

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Josh Fjelstul @joshfjelstul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Excited to share that LawLibrary.AI has received funding to develop our SaaS platform for EU legal research from the University of Gothenburg and GU Ventures! 1/6 www.lawlibrary.ai #EUlaw #LegalTech

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LawLibrary.AI - Streamlining EU legal research

We're developing innovative research solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to streamline the process of European Union (EU) legal research.

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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

if you work on or with European Union law, here is a bit of hot-off-the-digital-press, open-access research. I look at the gaps between Curia and Eur-Lex to understand how much of a problem using only one is, especially in English. tldr: it's not trivial doi.org/10.1017/elo....

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A note of caution on CJEU databases | European Law Open | Cambridge Core

A note of caution on CJEU databases

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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Norwegian Political scientists (working at Norwegian institution or born with skies) STARTER PACK is here! go.bsky.app/PFZAWUX (please send recommendations!)

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Mauricio M. M. @mauriciomm7.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello World 🌎 I’m a PhD Fellow in Political Science from @statsvitenskap.bsky.social and seated at ARENA Centre for European Studies. I mainly do EU Rule of Law enforcement but my research intersects: •EU Politics •Judicial Politics •Comparative Politics •Quantitative and Data Science Methods

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