In this blogpost, Els de Graauw discusses New York City’s recently enacted law to restore local voting rights for noncitizens. She contextualises this city law by situating it in the history of noncitizen voting in the United States and by comparing it to other recently adopted initiatives that advance urban citizenship in New York City.
In this blogpost, Rachel Pougnet discusses the proposed citizenship deprivation powers under Clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill in the context of limited constitutional safeguards in the UK.
Kickoff contribution and rejoinder by Jelena Džankić and Rainer Bauböck.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has handed down its judgment in the case of JY v Wiener Landesregierung, covering new ground on the relationship between domestic naturalisation procedures and EU citizenship.
In this blogpost, Luuk van der Baaren and Maarten Vink present the new GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset and identify major key global trends.
New GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset (v1.0)) to launch on 2 December 2021.
The GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset includes information on the different ways in which citizenship can be acquired and lost across the world. The Dataset is organised around a comprehensive typology of modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship, which outlines, in a Read More …
Chile’s 2021 Immigration Law creates a new regulatory and institutional framework for immigration to the country. This blog post explores the implications of Chile’s 2021 Immigration Law for the prevention and elimination of statelessness, nationalisation of resident foreigners, and electoral rights.
Dr Anna Dziedzic is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School. She researches comparative constitutional law and judicial studies, with a particular focus on the Pacific region. Her current work in the area of Read More …
In this blog post, Solomon Oseghale Momoh summarises his PhD research on the gaps in the nationality law and policy of Nigeria, with a particular focus on safeguards for people exposed to the risk of statelessness. Momoh emphasises the need to transpose the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons into domestic law and, crucially, the need for Nigeria to develop a statelessness determination procedure.
