Full Professor of Law, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

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Graham Butler retweeted
To outsiders in America and beyond, big-state libertarianism can be puzzling. To Swedes there is no contradiction: they just want to be left alone, and to do it together economist.com/europe/2026/08…
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📄 New article "When Public Authorities Do Not Decide: On the Need for a Failure to Act Procedure in Swedish Administrative Law" in Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift ⚖️ A court can order a public authority to decide. But if it simply doesn't? What then? 🔓 doi.org/10.53292/ba5659bf.7b…
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'The Generals', edited by @IainDale, is out now. It features a contribution from me on Charlemagne, from another time in European history. Published by Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette (hodder.co.uk/titles/iain-dal…), distributed worldwide.
It's Publication Day for my latest edited book of essays, THE GENERALS, published by Hodder & Stoughton. It covers 69 Generals from Sun Tzu through to David Petraeus. Thanks to all who contributed. I'm very proud of it. Buy a signed copy politicos.co.uk/products/the…
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New book 📘 Micro-states of Europe and their Legal Relations with the European Union (2026) Andorra 🇦🇩 Monaco 🇲🇨 San Marino 🇸🇲 and the Vatican City State 🇻🇦 across EU constitutional, internal market, institutional, and external relations law 🔗 law-store.wolterskluwer.com/… #EUlaw
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Sweden has no constitutional court. What it has is a duty in regeringsformen for courts not to apply laws that conflict with higher norms. When the legislative process erodes, that duty becomes more visible and more demanding. Judges will need to be prepared to find, and to state, that a given application of a law cannot be reconciled with the constitution. The citizenship reform belongs in this picture. dagensjuridik.se/opinion/dom…
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New chapter 📕 examining how the Court of Justice of the European Union decides not to decide cases. I argue that it does so through procedural control, narrow rulings, and related techniques. 🏛️🇪🇺 URL: doi.org/10.1093/978019898300… (eds: L. Lonardo & A. Loxa) #EUlaw #CJEU
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Is there a political question doctrine in EU law? The CJEU long took no position. No more! It has now discovered it. By me: 'From Search to Discovery of the Political Question Doctrine in EU Law' in European Law Review, 2025, 50(6), pp. 761-774. URL: uk.westlaw.com/Document/I29F…
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So you want to stand for election? For European Parliament elections, AG Ćapeta says in Case C-438/24, Erakond Eestimaa Rohelised that election deposits to be made, whilst permissible, must not be excessively high. Her Opinion: curia.europa.eu/juris/docume… #EUlaw #CJEU
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Replying to @EUCourtPress
Not true. There has been four Opinions of judges in the General Court (then, CFI) previously, 1991-1992. See the chapter by Judge Edward, reflecting on his Opinion in Automec/Asia Motor France: doi.org/10.5040/978150995003…
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A first in more than 33 years today. Today, a GC judge acting as an Advocate General, delivered an Opinion. Case T-575/24, Digipolis: curia.europa.eu/juris/docume… The last time this happened, was March 1992 in cases T-24/90 and T-28/90, Automec/Asia Motor: curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd…
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New book, now published. The EU Law of Investment: Past, Present, and Future (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2025), edited by Xavier Groussot, Marja-Liisa Öberg, and Graham Butler. Hardback, here: bloomsbury.com/uk/eu-law-of-… Full open access, here: doi.org/10.5040/978150996588… #EUlaw
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Appeals brought by Member States against General Court judgments to the Court of Justice under Article 56 of CJEU Statute. Case C-728/23 P. Nice to see both a book I co-edited and an article I authored cited in the Opinion of the Advocate General today. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume…
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This week in Copenhagen. Meeting of the Agents (of the Member States) before the @EUCourtPress ⚖️ at the @DanishMFA 🇩🇰🇪🇺 #EUlaw #CJEU
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Vacancy: Doctoral Fellowship in European Law, Linnaeus University, Sweden. 📅 Apps: by 1 Nov '25. 💡 On offer: 4-year full-time salaried position. 💭 Interest in: Competition, data protection, privacy law. 👉 Job ID: HR-2025/1249: 🔗 EN: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I009… #EUlaw
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Can the 🇪🇺 High Representative be in CJEU proceedings ⚖️ in their individual capacity (i.e., not as Comm VP, Head of the EEAS, other hats)? Evidently, yes, though with nuances as intervener, applicant, and defendant. My contribution in a new Festschrift: doi.org/10.1163/978900470063…
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Replying to @GAVClaw
10/10 on the title.
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Is the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) leaning too heavily on 'solidarity' in its rulings? I argue yes, and that is problematic as a matter of legal reasoning. The full article is in current issue of the Maastricht Journal (MJ): doi.org/10.1177/1023263X2513…
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New book out now. Research Handbook on EEA Internal Market Law, edited by one, but written by many. Focusing on the internal market aspects of the EFTA pillar of the EEA. Available in hardback: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/researc… Available online: doi.org/10.4337/978180392246… #EUlaw #EEAlaw
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Graham Butler retweeted
🆕 Research Handbook on EEA Internal Market Law edited by @GrahamButler1 Contributors include experts from @EFTA_Court and @eftasurv More info ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/978180… 🆓 chapter | The EEA Agreement: on 30 years of an extended internal market ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978180392246…
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Deposit return schemes (on drinks containers) Are they still justified in the interests of the environment, as long claimed? They are an impediment to the EU's internal market in the food/drink sector. New article (open access) in @RECIELjournal doi.org/10.1111/reel.12591 #EUlaw
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