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Ranking Web of Repositories 2017: Cadmus reconfirms 1st position in Italy - The EUI Library Blog

My reflection on being a Max Weber Fellow - The Max Weber Programme Blog Being a MW Fellow has been a wild ride many times, but most certainly worth it. I was able to meet so many wonderful individuals

EUI Ph.D. theses awarded during the Degree Conferring Ceremony 2017 - The EUI Library Blog Some EUI Ph.D. theses defended in the past academic year have been awarded with prestigious prizes during the Degree Conferring Ceremony on 9 June 2017. Find them on Cadmus, the EUI Research Repository: Haakon Ikonomou, Europeans : Norwegian diplomats and the enlargement of the European Community, 1...

From the "Is There Space in Cities for State Building?" Blog

The Welcoming Ceremony of Charles V in the City of Murcia and the Signification of the Monarchy-City Relationship (6 December 1541) - Is There Space in Cities for State Building? Cultural history has gained momentum during the last few years in the comprehension of early modern polities. Rituals, discourses and ceremonies have been conceived as ideological mechanisms of legitimation and reproduction of political orders. The narrative by Francisco Cascales of the welcoming ce...

Prophets are Secular: Egypt’s New Law and the Potential Impact on Religious Freedom. - Constitutionalism and Politics A New law in Egypt which grants the president of Egypt the power to appoint the most senior officials in the Egyptian judiciary has recently been passed by parliament and it threatens the very fabric of judicial independence in Egypt. By way of a brief clarification, this blog post does not make the...

Welcome to #LibJab, the Library newsletter - The EUI Library Blog You are reading the first edition of the new EUI Library newsletter, . has an intentionally hybrid nature that allows a conversation between the Library and its users. Every item appearing in print can be found in the Library blog, where we encourage you to leave your comments. This w...

Nice article regarding the evolution of news, written on the EUI Library Blog

So, what's the news? - The EUI Library Blog Fake news has been much in the real news recently but what’s new about that? Fake news has been around as long as the other sort of news but what has changed are the circumstances in which it is transmitted, which have put the existence of conventional newspapers themselves under threat. The sales o...

Populist Constitutionalism - Constitutionalism and Politics Populist engagement with constitution-making and constitutional reform forms a distinctive, and in significant ways worrying, tendency. Populism is explicitly present in the constitutional politics of the East-Central European countries of Hungary and Poland (but not reducible to East-Central Europe...

Much Ado About Nothing? Legal and Political Schooling for the Hungarian Government - Constitutionalism and Politics On 26 April the European Parliament held a debate on Hungary. In his opening remarks First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said that the Commission shares the worries and concerns of many people within and outside the EU regarding recent developments in Hungary, and about the compatibility of certai...

By Dieneke De Vos, PhD Candidate, International Criminal Law and Gender

Corporate accountability: Dutch court convicts former "Timber baron" of war crimes in Liberia • Dieneke De Vos On 21 April 2017, the Dutch Court of Appeal in ‘s-Hertogenbosch issued a decision holding Mr Guus Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, responsible as an accessory…

By Zane Rasnaca, PhD Researcher in Law

Five things to look out for in the Commission’s proposal on the European Pillar of Social Rights • Zane Rasnaca On 26 April 2017 the European Commission will finally issue its long-awaited proposal on the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). The EPSR will be accompanied by…