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Maria Kotsoni
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Legal scholar, Post-doc at Princeton | PhD from EUI_Law | Consultant at European Social Charter | Writes about social rights and constitutional law
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📣 New working paper by @mariakotsoni.bsky.social: "Powering social right: how the European Social Charter protects the right to energy".

🔗 Full paper available on EUI repository Cadmus: hdl.handle.net/1814/92973
Powering social rights : how the European Social Charter protects the right to energy
The European Social Charter does not explicitly protect a right to energy. However, in this paper I show that recent developments in the European Social Charter (ESC) system suggest that aspects of th...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A preprint version of my article on the protection of the right to energy through the European Social Charter is now available as an EUI Law Working Paper. cadmus.eui.eu/entities/pub...
#EuropeanSocialCharter
Powering social rights : how the European Social Charter protects the right to energy
The European Social Charter does not explicitly protect a right to energy. However, in this paper I show that recent developments in the European Social Charter (ESC) system suggest that aspects of th...
cadmus.eui.eu
July 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Looking forward to presenting my work on crises and social rights at @tricondublin.bsky.social!
Join us on March 31st for a @tricondublin.bsky.social seminar where Dr Maria Kotsoni @Princeton will talk about ‘Crises as Drivers of Change in Fundamental Social Rights in the EU’.
Dr Hilary Hogan (TCD Law School) will be discussant & Prof @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social will chair.
March 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Minimum wages matter. Think cost of living 🧮. The EU Minimum Wages Directive promotes their adequacy. Yet AG Emiliou proposed its annulment in a legal riddle and risk to living conditions.

Claire and I show here why his view is legally inadequate and misleads: t.ly/teRI1

The AMWD should stay. 🧵
A little learning is a dangerous thing : AG Emiliou on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive (C-19/23, Opinion of 14 January 2025)
t.ly
January 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Constructing Modern Slavery by Judy Fudge

Constructing Modern Slavery argues that modern slavery laws divert attention from the underlying structures and processes that generate labour exploitation.

📚 https://cup.org/4awCILd

#sociolegal #OpenAccess #WomenAlsoKnowLaw
Constructing Modern Slavery
Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Constructing Modern Slavery
cup.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
As someone who has benefitted a lot from past EuConst symposia, I highly recommend it! Great feedback and great (academic) fun.
Getting started on BlueSky with our call for papers for the 2025 EuConst Symposium, which we will host at Luiss University in the beautiful city of Rome on June 24. We welcome abstracts on any theme of European and comparative constitutional law. Application deadline March 3.
January 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM