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Josh Fjelstul
@joshfjelstul.bsky.social
CEO @ LawLibrary.AI | researcher @ Univ. of Oslo | political economist & data scientist | international law and courts | EU politics | PhD/MA @ Emory | BBA (CBHP) @ UT/McCombs | fmr WashU, Univ. of Geneva
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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
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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August 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I’m excited to share my new ROIO article on voting at the UN. Building on data by @erikvoeten.bsky.social and others, we’ve created the first complete database of all UN votes and decisions. We show that using more complete roll-call data can really matter. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Decision-making in the United Nations General Assembly: A comprehensive database of resolution-related decisions - The Review of International Organizations
Existing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voting databases provide excellent coverage of UNGA voting on resolutions adopted by roll-call vote. These databases, however, have known limitations: T...
link.springer.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
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.
www.lawlibrary.ai
December 2, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Happy that LawLibrary.AI has received VFT funding to continue developing our SaaS platform for EU legal research, making life easier for lawyers, law students and researchers working with EU law. Big thanks to GU Innovation office! lawlibrary.ai @joshfjelstul.bsky.social #legaltech #EUlaw
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.
lawlibrary.ai
December 1, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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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....
A note of caution on CJEU databases | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
A note of caution on CJEU databases
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
This great new research note by @movadek.bsky.social discusses the pitfalls of working with CJEU decisions from the EU’s official sources — EUR-Lex and InfoCuria — and how we’re trying to solve these problems with the IUROPA database. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A note of caution on CJEU databases | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
A note of caution on CJEU databases
www.cambridge.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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🚨🚨 Inspired by fellow EU nerds, I did a first attempt in creating a starter pack on European law and politics (defined in a broad sense) collecting some of the people I really think you should follow in this area. More names will be added but a bit exhausted by this work.
go.bsky.app/E5ByTCJ
November 20, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38
November 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
A great set of law and courts panels for #ECPRGC25!
We are looking forward to your paper submissions for #ECPRGC25!

Our Section "The Politics of Law and Courts" chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Urszula Jaremba has 10 pre-planned panels (🧵).

Contact the panel chairs by December 20 to join a pre-planned panel!

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
November 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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The panel "Quantifying Judicial Impact: Selection, Process, and Authority" is chaired by @benjaminengst.bsky.social and @louisabo.bsky.social and welcomes quantitative analysis of judicial appointments, decisions-making and more!
November 18, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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Fueled by the hope that X will finally sink, here is my first attempt at a starter pack on (all things) international courts and dispute settlement.

It is certainly a work in progress, so please hit me up with suggestions for who to add!
November 16, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here:

jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/

And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...
Wrapper for the AT Protocol Behind Bluesky
Wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://bsky.social>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network or posting conten...
jbgruber.github.io
November 16, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many

(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
November 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Here is my starter pack on public international law
go.bsky.app/9mPfGRg
November 9, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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We made a starter pack of scholars working on judicial politics, empirical legal studies, and law & society. Let us know if you would like to be added to the list!

go.bsky.app/3uWMaWG
November 11, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Our article introducing the IUROPA CJEU Database Platform is out in the latest issue of the Journal of Law and Courts. Check out all the awesome data we’ve put together on the CJEU and EU law! The article’s open access www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The CJEU Database Platform: Decisions and Decision-Makers | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Co...
The CJEU Database Platform: Decisions and Decision-Makers - Volume 11 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2023 at 11:50 PM