In this post, Kate McMillan reflects on how two Supreme Court decisions concerning voting rights have been at the heart of recent and significant constitutional developments in New Zealand.
Germany’s government has proposed to ease immigrants’ access to citizenship. The opposition is not happy with this. In this piece, Samuel Schmid argues that their concerns are unfounded. Overall, the new law should not be counted as a devaluation but instead as an upgrade of the democratic value of German citizenship.
In this blog post, Lorenzo Piccoli, Jelena Džankić, Didier Ruedin, and Timothy Jacob-Owens argue that the global scale and variation of COVID-19 mobility restrictions can open up new avenues for research on the legal and policy frameworks governing mobility, migration, and citizenship.
In this blog post, Timothy Jacob-Owens and Jo Shaw reflect on the implications of a recent decision of the Court of Appeal to the effect that no special provision needs to be made for members of the UK’s Windrush generation in relation to the ‘good character’ requirement for naturalisation.
On 8 June 2022, in Alexander v Minister for Home Affairs [2022] HCA 19, the High Court of Australia invalidated a ministerial power of citizenship deprivation. It reasoned that the deprivation was punishment for misconduct. Punishment for misconduct is an exclusively judicial function, one that cannot be conferred on the executive. This characterization of deprivation as punishment rested on a view of citizenship as a fundamental assurance of territorial security.
This blog post presents some reflections on the evolution of legal frameworks and political debates relating to citizenship deprivation in France and the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). It explores two key stumbling blocks – the restriction of citizenship deprivation to those who hold another citizenship and to citizens by ‘acquisition’ – which are widely shared across the world. The blog concludes by exploring what it terms the new ‘identity turn’ in questions of deprivation.
In this blog post, Toby James explains the implications of the UK’s recent Elections Act 2022.
Earlier this month, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a complaint brought by a Danish-born man convicted of terrorist offences challenging the revocation of his Danish citizenship and his expulsion to Tunisia. The decision brings closure to a controversial case and shines new light on the sensitive relationship between citizenship revocation and Article 8 ECHR.
In this blogpost, Elia Bescotti, Fabian Burkhardt, Maryna Rabinovych, and Cindy Wittke discuss passportization as a tool of Russian foreign policy in the context of the recent war of aggression against Ukraine.
In this blog post, Sarah Ganty analyses the recent admissibility decision of the European Court of Human Rights in S.H. v. Poland concerning the citizenship status of surrogate children.
