Mathias Hong
@hongmathias.bsky.social
Human Rights & Constitutional Law • Prof. of Public Law (Kehl) (private account; reposts ≤ endorsement) • 2005-2008: law clerk @BVerfG (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany) • https://verfassungsblog.de/author/mathias-hong/ • (Foto (c) U. Völkner)
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And from the intro
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
And from the intro
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From my abstract
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
From my abstract
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My paper on the original meaning of birthright citizenship is now published
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
My paper on the original meaning of birthright citizenship is now published
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Thanks are due to our contributors - also for their patience with this much delayed issue!
Recht während Gaza
überfälliger Schwerpunkt in der Kritischen Justiz
großer Dank an
@isafei.bsky.social und @barskanmaz.bsky.social
für diese wichtige Intervention
ihre Einleitung kann man hier lesen:
www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
überfälliger Schwerpunkt in der Kritischen Justiz
großer Dank an
@isafei.bsky.social und @barskanmaz.bsky.social
für diese wichtige Intervention
ihre Einleitung kann man hier lesen:
www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Thanks are due to our contributors - also for their patience with this much delayed issue!
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"From the River to the Sea" ist eine strafbare Hamas-Parole, hat nun erstmals ein Oberlandesgericht entschieden. Klarheit kann aber nur Karlsruhe schaffen, wo neben dem BGH nun auch das BVerfG ins Spiel kommt. @mkolter.bsky.social mit dem Stand der Dinge:
‘From the River to the Sea’: Erstes OLG bejaht Strafbarkeit
Ist der Palästina-Spruch eine strafbare Hamas-Parole? Zu der Streitfrage haben sich erstmals zwei OLG geäußert. Neben dem BGH kommt nun auch das BVerfG ins Spiel.
www.lto.de
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
"From the River to the Sea" ist eine strafbare Hamas-Parole, hat nun erstmals ein Oberlandesgericht entschieden. Klarheit kann aber nur Karlsruhe schaffen, wo neben dem BGH nun auch das BVerfG ins Spiel kommt. @mkolter.bsky.social mit dem Stand der Dinge:
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Im DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Collective Decision-Making“ an der Universität Hamburg sollen zum 01.11.2026 gleich 12 Promotionsstellen im Umfang von je 75% besetzt werden. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich vorrangig an Kandidat:innen aus der Ökonomie, der... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30451
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Im DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Collective Decision-Making“ an der Universität Hamburg sollen zum 01.11.2026 gleich 12 Promotionsstellen im Umfang von je 75% besetzt werden. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich vorrangig an Kandidat:innen aus der Ökonomie, der... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30451
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Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
Sow: "Against a generalised theory of knowledge and scholarly inquiry" ("Wissenschaftstheorie") "I will contrast an historically unsettled concept of epistemology."
"It will prove less determinate and less clear. Ultimately, however, it points toward an optimistic understanding ..."
1/24
"It will prove less determinate and less clear. Ultimately, however, it points toward an optimistic understanding ..."
1/24
Scholarly practice should not aim for absolute truth; it thrives when it embraces historical contingency, uncertainty, and reflexive questioning.
AMADOU KORBINIAN SOW shows that such an epistemology leads not to self-assurance but to productive self-unsettlement.
verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-ep...
AMADOU KORBINIAN SOW shows that such an epistemology leads not to self-assurance but to productive self-unsettlement.
verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-ep...
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Sow: "Against a generalised theory of knowledge and scholarly inquiry" ("Wissenschaftstheorie") "I will contrast an historically unsettled concept of epistemology."
"It will prove less determinate and less clear. Ultimately, however, it points toward an optimistic understanding ..."
1/24
"It will prove less determinate and less clear. Ultimately, however, it points toward an optimistic understanding ..."
1/24
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Scholarly practice should not aim for absolute truth; it thrives when it embraces historical contingency, uncertainty, and reflexive questioning.
AMADOU KORBINIAN SOW shows that such an epistemology leads not to self-assurance but to productive self-unsettlement.
verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-ep...
AMADOU KORBINIAN SOW shows that such an epistemology leads not to self-assurance but to productive self-unsettlement.
verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-ep...
February 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Scholarly practice should not aim for absolute truth; it thrives when it embraces historical contingency, uncertainty, and reflexive questioning.
AMADOU KORBINIAN SOW shows that such an epistemology leads not to self-assurance but to productive self-unsettlement.
verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-ep...
AMADOU KORBINIAN SOW shows that such an epistemology leads not to self-assurance but to productive self-unsettlement.
verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-ep...
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I wrote this thread up into an article and revived my old Medium account to host: medium.com/@katestarbir...
I explain how Bannon's comments of "ICE surrounding polls" are a strategic attempt to exploit our outrage to advance his goals of voter suppression — and how we can redirect that attack.
I explain how Bannon's comments of "ICE surrounding polls" are a strategic attempt to exploit our outrage to advance his goals of voter suppression — and how we can redirect that attack.
February 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I wrote this thread up into an article and revived my old Medium account to host: medium.com/@katestarbir...
I explain how Bannon's comments of "ICE surrounding polls" are a strategic attempt to exploit our outrage to advance his goals of voter suppression — and how we can redirect that attack.
I explain how Bannon's comments of "ICE surrounding polls" are a strategic attempt to exploit our outrage to advance his goals of voter suppression — and how we can redirect that attack.
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Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.
February 4, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.
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Third, journalists, non-profits, social media influencers, and everyday people need to be VERY discerning and careful about not amplifying unsubstantiated rumors about ICE or other law enforcement at or near the polls, because false rumors (even if well-meaning) WILL suppress the vote.
February 4, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Third, journalists, non-profits, social media influencers, and everyday people need to be VERY discerning and careful about not amplifying unsubstantiated rumors about ICE or other law enforcement at or near the polls, because false rumors (even if well-meaning) WILL suppress the vote.
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Bannon knows that deploying ICE to the polls constitutes illegal voter intimidation. So why is he encouraging Trump to break the law? Because he also knows this threat will work to suppress votes even if federal agents never get anywhere near the polls. The fear of ICE is enough to keep people home.
February 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Bannon knows that deploying ICE to the polls constitutes illegal voter intimidation. So why is he encouraging Trump to break the law? Because he also knows this threat will work to suppress votes even if federal agents never get anywhere near the polls. The fear of ICE is enough to keep people home.
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ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms.
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
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A bit of my @slate.com piece. "At this point, American democracy is too weak and fragile to have centralized power over elections in the hands of a federal government that could be coerced or coopted by a president hell-bent, like Trump, on election subversion."
February 3, 2026 at 11:17 PM
A bit of my @slate.com piece. "At this point, American democracy is too weak and fragile to have centralized power over elections in the hands of a federal government that could be coerced or coopted by a president hell-bent, like Trump, on election subversion."
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My new one @slate.com : I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.
President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his rhetoric against the American electoral system.
slate.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
My new one @slate.com : I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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“How to Protect the 2026 Elections from Donald Trump”—Glad to Join the New Yorker “Political Scene” Podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
How to Protect the 2026 Elections from Donald Trump
Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 02/07/2026 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:26 PM
“How to Protect the 2026 Elections from Donald Trump”—Glad to Join the New Yorker “Political Scene” Podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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“Trump, California and the multi-front war over the next election” electionlawblog.org?p=154200
"Trump, California and the multi-front war over the next election" #ELB
LAT: In recent weeks, Marin County Registrar Natalie Adona has been largely focused on the many mundane tasks of local elections administrators in the months before a midterm: finalizing voting locati...
electionlawblog.org
February 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
“Trump, California and the multi-front war over the next election” electionlawblog.org?p=154200
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Excited to serve as a strategic interlocutor at HU Berlin's new RefLex Centre for Advanced Studies
@humboldtuni.bsky.social. For its launch, I have contributed to a @verfassungsblog.de debate on "Reflexive Globalisation and the Law", asking how we might engage reflexively with colonial slave law.
@humboldtuni.bsky.social. For its launch, I have contributed to a @verfassungsblog.de debate on "Reflexive Globalisation and the Law", asking how we might engage reflexively with colonial slave law.
What does it mean to examine political modernity from below?
JEANETTE EHRMANN (@jeanjanyan.bsky.social) on the enslaved as political actors whose resistance reshapes how we think about modernity and the law.
verfassungsblog.de/the-code-noi...
JEANETTE EHRMANN (@jeanjanyan.bsky.social) on the enslaved as political actors whose resistance reshapes how we think about modernity and the law.
verfassungsblog.de/the-code-noi...
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Excited to serve as a strategic interlocutor at HU Berlin's new RefLex Centre for Advanced Studies
@humboldtuni.bsky.social. For its launch, I have contributed to a @verfassungsblog.de debate on "Reflexive Globalisation and the Law", asking how we might engage reflexively with colonial slave law.
@humboldtuni.bsky.social. For its launch, I have contributed to a @verfassungsblog.de debate on "Reflexive Globalisation and the Law", asking how we might engage reflexively with colonial slave law.
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The 12-axis graph is the best I’ve seen for tracking our descent from democracy to autocracy
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...htt
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...htt
Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy
Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The 12-axis graph is the best I’ve seen for tracking our descent from democracy to autocracy
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...htt
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...htt
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Ich freu mich drauf. Es wird knallhart investigativ nachgefragt...☝️
Am kommenden Dienstag um 19:30 Uhr in der Urania Berlin www.urania.de/event/grundg... mit @alexanderthiele.bsky.social und @ricardalang.bsky.social
Grundgesetzliches: Krise der Demokratie
Kann unsere Demokratie in der Krise ihre Grundwerte verteidigen? Ricarda Lang und Steffen Mau im Gespräch mit Alexander Thiele.
www.urania.de
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Ich freu mich drauf. Es wird knallhart investigativ nachgefragt...☝️
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“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark
Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected
www.stevevladeck.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
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Ich freue mich sehr, dass die Beiträge in Band 53 der Berichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht #OpenAccess zur Verfügung stehen. Danke an Christian Walter und den DGIR-Vorstand.
Mein Beitrag war zu "Flüsse, Berge und Wälder als Rechtspersonen?"
www.dgfir.de/berichtsband...
Mein Beitrag war zu "Flüsse, Berge und Wälder als Rechtspersonen?"
www.dgfir.de/berichtsband...
Band 53
53
www.dgfir.de
February 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Ich freue mich sehr, dass die Beiträge in Band 53 der Berichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht #OpenAccess zur Verfügung stehen. Danke an Christian Walter und den DGIR-Vorstand.
Mein Beitrag war zu "Flüsse, Berge und Wälder als Rechtspersonen?"
www.dgfir.de/berichtsband...
Mein Beitrag war zu "Flüsse, Berge und Wälder als Rechtspersonen?"
www.dgfir.de/berichtsband...
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Schulzke & Capodilupo on the Written Constitutionalism in the Founding Era
Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Northern Illinois University College of Law; Yale University - Law School) & Robert Capodilupo (Yale Law School) have posted Becoming Written Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…
Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Northern Illinois University College of Law; Yale University - Law School) & Robert Capodilupo (Yale Law School) have posted Becoming Written Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…
Schulzke & Capodilupo on the Written Constitutionalism in the Founding Era
Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Northern Illinois University College of Law; Yale University - Law School) & Robert Capodilupo (Yale Law School) have posted Becoming Written Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Scholars have long recognized two kinds of constitutions. The British, or small-c variant meant the organization of governmental institutions and a broad swath of laws, customs, and principles pertaining to government and its relationship to the people it governed.
legaltheoryblog.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Schulzke & Capodilupo on the Written Constitutionalism in the Founding Era
Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Northern Illinois University College of Law; Yale University - Law School) & Robert Capodilupo (Yale Law School) have posted Becoming Written Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…
Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Northern Illinois University College of Law; Yale University - Law School) & Robert Capodilupo (Yale Law School) have posted Becoming Written Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…
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My article on private law and (in-)equality (in German) has been published. Comments and criticism are very welcome.
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/priv...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/priv...
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
My article on private law and (in-)equality (in German) has been published. Comments and criticism are very welcome.
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/priv...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/priv...