With @azizaahmed.bsky.social, Joanna Erdman (@schulichlaw.bsky.social), Mariana Prandini Assis

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A huge thank you to the very patient editors of the Columbia Journal of European Law, and to all the (many!) generous colleagues who read and commented on previous drafts.

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The paper also suggests some alternative legal pathways aligned with a materialist understanding of international human rights obligations to ensure a thicker understanding of reproductive justice across the EU

To a large extent, EU law protects Member States’ abortion laws no matter how harmful they may be, and offers legal protection only to those who have enough resources to exit discriminatory domestic health systems, even though human rights & gender equality are fundamental values of the EU.

The paper shows how EU economic and human rights frameworks regulating abortion keep undermining reproductive justice and entrenching intersectional inequalities.

Below pictures from massive protests in Novi Sad, and from rallies in support of students in Paris & Amsterdam.

In a moment in which –across the EU- far-right parties are going mainstream, protests are criminalized, and democratic practices are breaking down, maybe the EU societies could learn something from their periphery about how to create alliances across the board and nourish direct democracy.

This level of mobilization is truly remarkable in one of the poorest countries in Europe: a country still scarred by war, nationalist paranoia, polarization & social inequalities, in which the ruling party has captured institutions — from the judiciary to the media— while being entangled with mafia.

The ruling party has responded by describing students as foreign spies, by threatening them to cut scholarships and benefits, and by encouraging physical violence against protesters. So far, that has backfired.

Through various actions of civil disobedience students are demanding systemic economic and social changes. In real time they are showing how to build a counterhegemonic movement

Student groups are leaderless and democratic, with all decisions taken by students’ plenaries. The movement is cross-generational, and students managed to build a coalition across various sectors of the Serbian society: from teachers, university professors, healthcare professionals, and farmers.

Thank you! 🤍

It’s part of the special issue on Critical legal approaches in EU law that I shared last week.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtlt20/1...

Thank you Diamond!