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Martin Kopa
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Dad, Judge & Human Rights Law teacher (Brno, Olomouc, Czechia, Europe)
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echr.coe.int
📹 In the latest video from the “One Judge, Three Questions” series, Vahe Grigoryan, judge elected in respect of Armenia:
➡️ Walks us through his career path
➡️ Explains what the Court represents to him
➡️ Highlights the most important Court case, in his view.
youtu.be/EoIAqedfJT0
ONE JUDGE, THREE QUESTIONS - Vahe Grigoryan (ENG)
YouTube video by European Court of Human Rights
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Předseda Nejvyššího soudu Spojeného království měl minulý týden důležitý projev na prakticky celosvětově významné téma. Článek @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social o slovech Lorda Reeda určitě doporučuji k přečtení! open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
Trust in the courts
Top judge explains how judiciary should act in an age of populism
open.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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echr.coe.int
👨‍⚖️Mattias Guyomar, juge au titre de la France, élu président de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme tinyurl.com/56rcxwpm
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress
April 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Smutné, leč velmi pravdivé (a potřebné) čtení.
April 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Delivered safe & sound to the Czech Republic! So looking forward to reading it! @philippesands.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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dsc250.bsky.social
Best writing tip I ever got (from a judge I clerked for):

Don't use an abbreviation or acronym unless EVERYONE knows what it means. That goes for legal writing, popular writing, social media - everything.
April 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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jaywillis.net
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal- vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a 2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal- vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip- lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ- ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur- ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor- ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to- night—is unprecedented and indefensible.
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Tenhle podcast tady doslova nemůžu nesdílet. 🙂 Kateřina Šimáčková, Ivo Pospíšil, Michal Bartoň a Vojtěch Šimíček s moderátorem Zdeňkem Červínkem a hodina a půl povídání o Elišce Wagnerové.

open.spotify.com/episode/4KR2...
Eliška Wagnerová: Poslední ústavní soudkyně “umazaná životem”
Leviathan: Podcast o ústavním právu · Episode
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April 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
#ECJ #AG Richard de la Tour: An EU Member State must recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State but is not required to transcribe it in a civil register #EULaw #Poland 👉
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
Court of Justice of the European Union
curia.europa.eu
April 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
It is entirely unacceptable for MPs to attack judges on a personal basis, the attorney general said yesterday. Lord Hermer KC was giving evidence to MPs and peers the day after two Conservative MPs had called for senior judges to be disciplined by politicians. rozenberg.substack.com/p/attorney-d...
Attorney defends judges
Lord Hermer tells MPs that personal attacks threaten the rule of law
rozenberg.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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echr.coe.int
On the occasion of the swearing-in of the newly elected judge in respect of Andorra, Canòlic Mingorance Cairat, the Court published a new video "One Judge, Three Questions" tinyurl.com/4knnrrbm
Composition of the Court: tinyurl.com/ncyt4xtu
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRjudges
ONE JUDGE, THREE QUESTIONS - Canòlic Mingorance-Cairat (ENG)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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March 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Unbelievable
felipedlh.bsky.social Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Mar 25
Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted
Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison
E.M. and his girlfriend fled persecution in their native Venezuela in 2021 and dreamed of making a new life in the United States.
www.miamiherald.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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🚀 We’ve joined Bluesky! Stay informed about key rulings, insights, and how #CJEU judgments shape #EUlaw and your daily life. Follow us and stay up to date! ⚖️🌍 #ECJ
March 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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marktushnet.bsky.social
An interview about my new book: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
This Harvard Law prof thinks constitutional theory is a terrible way to pick a judge - Legal Talk Network
What if we are asking the wrong questions when selecting American judges? Mark Tushnet thinks our current criteria might be off. “We should look for Discover insightful episodes on Legal Talk Network'...
urldefense.proofpoint.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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americanbar.org
The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
We speak today on behalf of the legal profession and its members who seek to live by the oath each took upon admission to the bar. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession. These efforts cannot be sanctioned or normalized. There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation. We acknowledge that there are risks to standing up and addressing these important issues. But if the ABA and lawyers do not speak, who will speak for the organized bar? Who will speak for the judiciary? Who will protect our system of justice? If we don’t speak now, when will we speak? The American Bar Association has chosen to stand and speak. Now is the time for all of us to speak with one voice. We invite you to stand with us.
March 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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marktushnet.bsky.social
First copies arrived! Get it while it’s hot!
January 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
Subject matter specialists writing an appellate brief at a generalist court.
lawnerd.bsky.social Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · Jan 27
This was an XKCD!
SILICATE CHEMISTRY IS SECOND NATURE TO US GEOCHEMISTS, 50 IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE FORMULAS FOR OLIVINE AND ONE OR TWO FELDSPARS. AND QUARTZ, OF COURSE. OF COURSE. EVEN WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR IT, EXPERTS IN ANYTHING WILDLY OVERESTIMATE THE AVERAGE PERSON'S FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR FIELD.
January 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
The CJEU has confirmed that non-EU citizens who are irregular migrants cannot invoke EU law to obtain a right to stay. Critique on human rights grounds, by Alan Desmond and Kevin Fredy Hinterberger
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
The CJEU ruling in Changu: ‘If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: the Return Directive in conjunction with the Charter of Fundamental Rights does not oblige EU Member States to grant a ...
Alan Desmond , University of Leicester Kevin Fredy Hinterberger , Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour Photo credit : Luxufluxo , vi...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
December 20, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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marinklevy.bsky.social
On this day — December 19th — in 1975, John Paul Stevens joined the Supreme Court.

(Two days earlier, the Senate had confirmed him in a vote of 98-0.)

❤️
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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coe.int
Today, we celebrate 70 years since the European Culture Convention was opened for signature #OnThisDay in Paris to encourage the study of languages, history and civilisation and celebrate all of Europe’s cultural diversity.

#EuropeForCulture #HistoryAtHeart
December 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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Profile | Is Aharon Barak Still Israel’s Most Maverick Judge? momentmag.com/aharon-barak...
Profile | Is Aharon Barak Still Israel’s Most Maverick Judge?
In this heretofore unreleased profile, Jeffrey Rosen discusses Barak’s legacy, detractors and the judge’s opinion on the role of the judiciary and the future of Israeli democracy.
momentmag.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
1/ Some general points about how asylum and immigration law applies when an appalling dictatorship is ousted in another country. #Syria 🇸🇾
December 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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This is actually a great legal writing tip, too. Nothing will inspire you more to be a good legal writer than bad legal writing. youtu.be/rCOmkrwQdFc?...
Alan Moore - Read Terrible Books - Storytelling - BBC Maestro
YouTube video by BBC Maestro
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December 5, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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orinkerr.bsky.social
I've said this before, but the fact that legal academia (especially at top schools) has significantly turned away from concern with doctrine—in helping judges figure out how to resolve hard cases—creates an opportunity for those lawprofs who want to have actual influence on how law develops.
December 3, 2024 at 12:10 AM