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Karin van Leeuwen 🟥
@historikarin.bsky.social
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European political history @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social | everything between law, politics & history: NL constitution, EU law, interwar international law, etc | NL/EN
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Karin van Leeuwen 🟥 @historikarin.bsky.social · Jan 13
Very happy to have received a small grant to pioneer something I've been talking and thinking about for some years now (and thanks to those who endured this!): studying 'judicialization of politics' from a historical angle. 1/
fasosmaastricht.bsky.social Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Jan 13
How does judicialization shape democracy? @historikarin.bsky.social receives a €50,000 grant from NWO to explore this through history. Her pilot study on 1980s acid rain cases offers fresh insights into the evolving interplay between courts, policy and democracy🌍⚖️
historikarin.bsky.social
Prints! Ready to delve into this new volume that just arrived in the mail, with new perspectives from various disciplines on the 1920-1946 Permanent Court of International Justice. Including a chapter by yours truly on the role of the Netherlands in the establishment of the court.
Book cover of De Waele and Tams (eds) 'Realising the Hope of Ages?' book on the Permanent Court of International Justice Table of contents Table f contents
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
historikarin.bsky.social
Another piece from the special issue on EU legal history 'from below' that is nicely coming about on first view: the story of Helen Marshall's unlikely (but major) contribution to EU law.
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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woinactie.bsky.social
9 december! Zegt het voort!
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Hoger onderwijs hoopt met nieuwe staking druk te leggen op de formatie
Het hoger onderwijs staakt op 9 december opnieuw tegen de bezuinigingen. Onder andere WOinActie, studentenvakbonden, FNV en de Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb) hopen zo druk te leggen op de formatie.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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europeanlawopen.bsky.social
The symposium is coming together nicely: Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth write the introduction cum manifest on bottom-up legal history. @koenvanzon.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social

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Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000 | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Rethinking European legal integration: legal text from a bottom-up perspective and the functioning of European law, 1957–2000
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November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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esclh.bsky.social
BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025

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BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025),
(image source: Hart ) Abstract: This book analyses the informal decision making process in the EU against the background of a gradually em...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
If you can, join this (hybrid) book launch of @whommes.bsky.social 's history of the European Convention of Human Rights and its reception in the Netherlands!
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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patrickbijsmans.bsky.social
Come visit us during tomorrow’s @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social BA Open Day and learn more about our four fantastic programmes in

📚 Arts & Culture 📚
🤖 Digital Society 🤖
🇪🇺 European Studies 🇪🇺
🌐 Global Studies 🌐

Details ☞ www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/bachelors-op...
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
Another publication now on First View! This piece by Wiebe Hommes @uvalawschool.bsky.social will be part of the forthcoming special issue featuring histories 'beyond European legal integration' - but open for you to read already from today!
October 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
Fascinating read on airports as sites of contestation between nation states and their immigration regimes on the one hand and international rights conceptions on the other, from the perspective of the refugees..
riakapoor.bsky.social Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Oct 10
Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.
pastpresentsoc.bsky.social Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Oct 10
New on advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"

by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
October 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
Published today @europeanlawopen.bsky.social : this piece co-authored with @koenvanzon.bsky.social on 'societal mobilisation' of EU law through an instrument you'd not immediately think of as very 'societal': infringement proceedings
September 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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associationpolhist.bsky.social
📣Call for Panels, Papers and Posters for the APH 2026 Conference! Deadline, 1 Dec 2025.

Topic: Dynamizing and Decentring Empires: A Recalibration of the History of the Political

📍Münster @uni-muenster.de @sechistnetwork.bsky.social
📅11-13 June 2026

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APH 2026 – Call for Panels, Papers, and Posters. “Dynamizing and Decentring Empires: A Recalibration of the History of the Political” | Association for Political History
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August 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
There they are! Kicking off the 2025-2026 academic year (and my directorship of the programme!) with over 300 first year students for the BA European Studies @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social 🇪🇺
patrickbijsmans.bsky.social Patrick Bijsmans @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social · Aug 25
Lovely morning for the start of our introduction week. Today we’re welcoming our new BA #EuropeanStudies students 🇪🇺

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August 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
Happy Europe Day from our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social European Studies graduates!
May 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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pavoljakubec.bsky.social
One great PhD opportunity! The lucky historian will learn a great deal.
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PhD scholarship in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER_LEAGUE at the Saxo Institute at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a PhD scholarship in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER_LEA
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May 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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masssimons.bsky.social
Huge crowd, protesting against the budget cuts in Dutch higher education at Maastricht #WOinActie
April 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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maastrichtu.bsky.social
Today UM strikes! 🟥

Staff & students pause work to protest education cuts. Over 2,500 concerned citizens and academics signed a solidarity letter. ✊

Follow the liveblog 👉 edu.nl/xaa3q & share your solidarity on social media platforms using #WOinActie

Or follow the strike live on this channel!
April 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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woinactie.bsky.social
Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike!
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#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs

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Woensdag duizenden stakers naar Maastricht voor protest tegen onderwijsbezuinigingen
Woensdag ligt het hoger onderwijs in Maastricht plat. Duizenden docenten, onderzoekers, studenten en werknemers van het hoger onderwijs staken tegen de heilloze onderwijsbezuinigingen van het kabinet....
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April 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
Op woensdag 16 april pakt Maastricht de estafettestaking van Nederlandse universiteiten over. We staken uit protest tegen de inmiddels door de Eerste Kamer goedgekeurde bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Omdat goed (hoger) onderwijs essentieel is voor Nederland kennisland en haar democratie!
woinactielimburg.bsky.social WOinActie Limburg🟥 @woinactielimburg.bsky.social · Apr 11
On Wednesday, April 16, we strike in Maastricht in opposition to the detrimental budget cuts to higher education - see the programme below and join us!

Op woensdag 16 april staken wij in Maastricht tegen de schadelijke bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs - zie het programma hieronder en doe mee!
stakingsprogramma maastricht, 16 april op het vrijthof vanaf 12.30 muziek en friet 13.00 - 14.00 podiumprogramma 14.45 - 14.45 mars door de binnenstad 14.45 - 15.30 stakingsmarkt strike programme maastricht, 16 april at the vrijthof from 12.30 - music and free fries 13.00 - 14.00 speeches and music 14.00 - 14.45 march through the city centre 14.45 - 15.30 strike market
April 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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beatricedegraaf.bsky.social
Waarom we heel snel werk moeten gaan maken van onze geo-ideologische ongeletterdheid (als we tenminste niet steeds weer door de grillen van buitenlandse leiders in de internationale betrekkingen overvallen willen worden). Nieuwe column! 👇🏼

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Column | Geo-ideologische ongeletterheid
Column: Hoe kijken we aan tegen mensen die dingen geloven die zo raar en fantastisch zijn, dat het niet eens meer in ons denkraam past, vraagt Beatrice de Graaf zich af.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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eui-euarchives.bsky.social
Hello!
We’re looking forward to sharing news about recent archival deposits, grant opportunities for research on European integration, exhibits, publications, and outreach activities at the HAEU.
Please give us a follow-we’re excited to meet you!

📲 @eui-EUArchives.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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thecelticist.bsky.social
Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️
georgewparker.bsky.social George Parker @georgewparker.bsky.social · Feb 17
Kemi Badenoch this morning: "A country cannot be successful if its people and intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds through higher education."
February 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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martijnvandenbrink.bsky.social
The call for papers for the ELU-S inaugural conference is out!

More information on how to submit your abstracts is available here: europeanlawunbound.eu/annual-confe...

We look forward to receiving your paper and panel submissions and seeing you in Prague!
February 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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ecprtheloop.bsky.social
🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.7
🔄 @ferenclaczo.bsky.social reconsiders European integration as a history of the present, focusing on the roles East Europeans have played & how they remind their fellow Europeans of the existential stakes of the 🌍 European project.
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🧭 Reasserting the meaning of integration: a new history of the present
Ferenc Laczó reconsiders European integration as a history of the present, focusing on the roles East Europeans have played. He argues that the foremost representatives of East European states now rem...
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February 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
historikarin.bsky.social
Hoe is dit beleid??

"De gewenste daling van de instroom van internationale studenten is al bijna gehaald. Dat creëert ruimte, schrijft [Bruins]. Tegelijkertijd: wordt het doel een jaar niet gehaald, dan volgt er mogelijk een “vermindering in de netto bekostiging per student in dat jaar”."
observant-um.bsky.social Observant @observant-um.bsky.social · Feb 12
Even leek het alsof de vlag uit kon voor universiteiten in krimpregio’s. Maar de brief aan de senaat van onderwijsminister Bruins laat veel open, zegt UM-collegevoorzitter @rianneletschert.bsky.social: “Het is volstrekt onduidelijk wat de minister wil.”

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February 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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europeanlawopen.bsky.social
Happy to announce a new issue has dropped. Good stuff.

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European Law Open: Volume 3 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - European Law Open - Volume 3 - Issue 3
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February 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM