Jaakko Husa

@husajaakko.bsky.social

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Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7h

Ajatus on jännitteinen mutta oivaltava.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7h

"I think with my pen and write in order to find out what I think."

— William Twining, Jurist in Context (2019)

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

Yep...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

You sound so last century...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

It's core is not gore. It surprised me positively, I admit.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

Friday, yippee! I can hardly contain myself.

a man wearing ear buds is smiling for the camera

Alt: unhappy man makes a fake smile for the camera

media.tenor.com

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

Could be 😆

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

Sad news. Way too early. 😔

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

If I'm to believe the Chinese Zodiac, 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse (starts in two weeks). The thing is that it's supposed to be my year. Remains to be seen.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 3d

I have decided not to travel to the United States until the situation there changes. It may be that I will not have enough years to live to travel there anymore.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no, everything is just so cool here. Like really cool...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5d

Try Helsinki...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d

-20 °C with north wind, a bit chilly in Helsinki. Then again, there is no cold weather only poor clothing.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

The Beethoven Frieze (Beethovenfries), a painting by Gustav Klimt on display in the Ateneum (Helsinki). Part of the "Gallen-Kallela, Klimt & Wien" exhibition.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

"the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet"

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

REVIEW | Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film

Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review

www.independent.co.uk

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

Perhaps...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

This evening on Finnish national public service broadcasting company YLE, people are reading aloud Moomin stories. Here is the President reading "Comet in Moominland".

Short haired man sits on sofa and reads a book in a studio

Reposted by Amir Attaran, Jaakko Husa

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

REVIEW | Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film

Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review

www.independent.co.uk

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d

We are doomed...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d

James, probably. (You know who.)

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 10d

The magic of writing

When you receive the final proofs of your own book or article, it can be a wonderful feeling: wow, this looks absolutely wonderful! Of course, the feeling only lasts until the text is published and the first typo catches your eye...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 10d

Things that people living in the Arctic do not want to say openly.

The Northern Lights look much better in photos than in reality. Camera amplify the faint light and is more colour sensitive than human eye.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 11d

Who in their right mind wants to follow the news these days? And yet we feel compelled to follow the news, as if we would be addicted to a drug that offers nothing but spiral to thickening darkness.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 13d

If there is one thing I did certainly not expect from the mid 2020s it is this:

Birth of the American Sturmabteilung (SA) in the form of ICE.

I thought that that the Nazi stormtroopers were a thing of the past.

My bad.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Elizabeth Saunders, Nandita Sharma , and 40 more Anne Applebaum, Elizabeth Saunders, Nandita Sharma, Richard S.J. Tol, Stephan Lewandowsky, Joe R. Feagin, Jonathan A. Foley, Brett J. Baker, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Andreas Ortmann, Steven S. Smith, Diane Ravitch, Melissa Johnson, Sarah E. Gollust, Colin Harvey, Melissa R. Michelson, Juan Cole, Alison Phipps, Jaakko Husa, Michael Kevane, Laurent Pech, W. Andy Knight, Ben Tonra, Gerald Friedman, Tom Griffin, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Margot C. Finn, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Julia M. Wright, Dana R. Fisher, José Antonio Noguera, Christian Fisch, Henry Jones, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Seth Masket, Matthew P. McAllister, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Martin S. Flaherty, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal, Anne Hilborn

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14d

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 14d

Comparative International Law is now out. I may be biased but this sure looks like a great volume. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/comparati...

Comparative International Law

The modern field of comparative international law emerged in the last century, but it still suffers from a lack of intellectual and methodological foundations.…

www.bloomsbury.com

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 14d

Who needs EU when there is the special relationship, right?

Reposted by Brian Sloan

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 16d

James Fisher defends his doctoral thesis on Japanese trust as legal transplant on 11 February at Utrecht University (livestream). I had the pleasure to supervise James with Professor J.W.A. Biemans. www.uu.nl/en/events/ph...

PhD defence: Making Trusts Civilised: The Japanese Trust as 'Legal Transplant'

James Fisher will defend his dissertation "Making Trusts Civilised: The Japanese Trust as 'Legal Transplant'".

www.uu.nl

Reposted by Cheryl Saunders

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 16d

Do you still remember checks and balances, the key principle of the US system designed to prevent the concentration of power in any one branch?

It will be of great interest to legal historians.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 17d

For what it's worth, I've never concluded an article with a set of actionable prescriptions.

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17d

Today, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social challenge the idea that law review articles should conclude with a set of actionable prescriptions.

This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.

Beyond Feasibility in Legal Scholarship

Law review articles are expected to conclude with a short section, often “Part IV,” that translates analysis into actionable prescriptions. Though well-intentioned, this convention constrains ambition...

lpeproject.org

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