PETER J. SPIRO Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law, Temple University - Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA. July 2006-present. Inaugural chair-holder. Co-director, Institute for International Law and Public Policy. Teaching courses in immigration, international, and foreign relations law.
William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law, Boston University Law School, Boston, MA. Fall 2018.
Rusk Professor of International Law & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, GA. Rusk Professor, July 2004-July 2006; Associate Dean, July 2005-July 2006.
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School, Austin, Texas. Spring 2001.
Professor & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, NY. Tenure granted August 2000. August 1994 – July 2004.
JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS
Law Clerk to Justice David H. Souter, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. Originally selected to clerk for Justice William J. Brennan. October 1990-August 1991.
Law Clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C. August 1989-August 1990.
BOOKS
CITIZENSHIP: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW (Oxford University Press 2019)
AT HOME IN TWO COUNTRIES: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF DUAL CITIZENSHIP (NYU Press 2016)
BEYOND CITIZENSHIP: AMERICAN IDENTITY AFTER GLOBALIZATION (Oxford University Press 2008)
ARTICLES
The Equality Paradox of Dual Citizenship, 45 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 879 (2019)
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Citizenship Overreach, 38 Michigan Journal of International Law 167 (2017) (symposium/invited)
Executive Agreements+, 49 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 885 (2016) (with Daniel Bodansky)
Expatriating Terrorists, 82 Fordham Law Review 2169 (2014) (symposium/invited)
The (Dwindling) Rights and Obligations of Citizenship, 21 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 899 (2013) (symposium/invited)
Sovereigntism’s Twilight, 31 Berkeley Journal of International Law 307 (2013) (symposium/invited)
Interrogating Birthright Citizenship, 60 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 29 (2013)
A New International Law of Citizenship, 105 American Journal of International Law 694 (2011)
Dual Citizenship as Human Right, 8 International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON) 111 (2010)
Formalizing Local Citizenship, 37 Fordham Urban Law Journal 559 (2010) (symposium/invited)
Resurrecting Missouri v. Holland, 73 Missouri Law Review 1079 (2008) (symposium/invited)
A Negative Proof of International Law, 34 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 445 (2006) (book review symposium)
Perfecting Political Diaspora, 81 New York University Law Review 207 (2006) (symposium/invited)
Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law, 67 Law and Contemporary Problems 195 (2004) (symposium/invited)
Treaties, International Law, and Constitutional Rights, 55 Stanford Law Review 1999 (2003) (symposium/invited)
The Impossibility of Citizenship, 101 Michigan Law Review 1492 (2003) (review essay)
Globalization and the (Foreign Affairs) Constitution, 63 Ohio State Law Journal 649 (2002)
Explaining the End of Plenary Power, 16 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 339 (2002) (symposium/invited)
Accounting for NGOs, 3 Chicago Journal of International Law 161 (2002) (symposium/invited)
Treaties, Executive Agreements, and Constitutional Method, 79 Texas Law Review 961 (2001)
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Contextual Determinism and Foreign Relations Federalism, 2 Chicago Journal of International Law 363 (2001) (symposium/invited)
Globalization, International Law, and the Academy, 32 New York University Journal of International Law and Policy 567 (2000) (symposium/invited)
Questioning Barriers to Naturalization, 13 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 479 (1999)
Foreign Relations Federalism, 70 University of Colorado Law Review 1223 (1999) (symposium/invited)
The Citizenship Dilemma, 51 Stanford Law Review 597 (1999) (review essay)
Dual Nationality and the Meaning of Citizenship, 46 Emory Law Journal 1411 (1997)
The States and International Human Rights, 66 Fordham Law Review 567 (1997) (symposium/invited)
Learning to Live with Immigration Federalism, 29 Connecticut Law Review 1627 (1997) (symposium/invited)
New Players on the International Stage, 2 Hofstra Law & Policy Symposium 19 (1997)
New Global Potentates? Nongovernmental Organizations and the "Unregulated" Marketplace, 18 Cardozo Law Review 957 (1996) (symposium/invited)
Old Wars/New Wars, 37 William & Mary Law Review 723 (1996) (review essay)
The States and Immigration in an Era of Demi-Sovereignties, 35 Virginia Journal of International Law 121 (1995)
War Powers and the Sirens of Formalism, 68 New York University Law Review 1338 (1993) (review essay)
Adding Teeth to U.S. Ratification of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The International Human Rights Conformity Act of 1993, 42 DePaul Law Review 1209 (1993) (with Michael H. Posner) (symposium/invited)
Leave for Appeal: Departure as a Requirement to the Review of Deportation Cases, 25 San Diego Law Review 281 (1988)
The Iran-Contra Affair, The Neutrality Act, and the Statutory Definition of 'At Peace,' 27 Virginia Journal of International Law 345 (1987)
State and Local Anti-South Africa Action as an Intrusion Upon the Federal Power in Foreign Affairs, 72 Virginia Law Review 813 (1986)
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EDITED VOLUMES
Thomas Biersteker, Veronica Raffo, Chandra Sriram & Peter Spiro, eds., INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE (Routledge, 2006)
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
An Intellectual History of Citizenship, in CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF GLOBAL MIGRATIONS (Marcelo J. Borges & Madeline Y. Hsu, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021)
The Past and (Post-COVID) Future of Dual Citizenship, in DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALISATION: GLOBAL, COMPARATIVE, AND AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVES (Rainer Baubock & Max Haller, eds., Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021)
Investor Citizenship and the Long Leash of International Law, in INVESTMENT MIGRATION: THE LAW OF CITIZENSHIP AND MONEY (Dimitry Kochenov & Kristin Surak, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021)
Membership and Global Legal Pluralism, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL LEGAL PLURALISM (Paul Berman, ed., Oxford University Press 2020)
Stakeholder Theory Won’t Save Citizenship, in THEORIES OF DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP (David Owen, ed., Manchester University Press 2017)
Multiple Citizenship, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CITIZENSHIP (Rainer Baubock et al., eds., Oxford University Press 2017)
The End of Olympic Nationality, in ALLEGIANCE AND IDENTITY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (Kim Rubenstein, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Citizenship, Nationality, and Statelessness, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON MIGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (Vincent Chetail, ed., Edward Elgar, 2013)
NGOs in International Relations (Theory), in SYNTHESIZING INSIGHTS FROM INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Jeffrey Dunoff & Mark Pollack, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Citizenship and Diaspora: A State Home for Transnational Politics?, in GLOBAL MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS (Terrence Lyons & Peter Mandaville, eds., Columbia University Press, 2012)
NGOs and Human Rights, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (Sarah Joseph, ed., Edward Elgar, 2010)
Dual Citizenship - A Postnational View, in DUAL CITIZENSHIP: DEMOCRACY, RIGHTS AND IDENTITIES BEYOND BORDERS (Thomas Faist, ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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NGOs and Civil Society, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Daniel Bodansky et al. eds, Oxford University Press, 2006)
Afroyim: Vaunting Citizenship, Presaging Transnationality, in IMMIGRATION STORIES (David A. Martin & Peter H. Schuck eds., Foundation Press, 2005)
Realizing Constitutional and International Norms in the Wake of September 11, in WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION (Mark Tushnet ed., Duke University Press, 2004)
9/11: The Insinuation of Constitutional and International Norms, in THE MIGRATIONS OF THREAT: NATIONAL SECURITY AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH (John Tirman ed., Social Sciences Research Council/New Press, 2004)
Mandated Membership, Diluted Identity: Citizenship, Globalization, and International Law, in GLOBALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP (Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir eds., Rowan & Littlefield 2003)
Political Rights and Dual Nationality, in RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF DUAL NATIONALS: EVOLUTION AND PROSPECTS (David Martin & Kay Hailbroner eds., Kluwer International, 2002)
Embracing Dual Nationality, in DUAL NATIONALITY, SOCIAL RIGHTS AND FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE (Randall Hansen & Patrick Weil eds., Berghahn Books 2002)
LAW JOURNALS ONLINE
Problematizing Olympic Nationality, 114 American Journal of International Law Unbound 374 (2020)
The Possibilities of Global Migration Law, 111 American Journal of International Law Unbound 3 (2017)
Normalizing Foreign Relations Law After Zivotofsky II, 109 American Journal of International Law Unbound 22 (2015)
State Action on Immigration (Bad and Good) After Arizona v. United States, 161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 105 (2012)
Wishing International Law Away, 119 Yale Law Journal Online 23 (2009)
McCain’s Citizenship and Constitutional Method, 107 Michigan Law Review First Impressions 42 (2008)
REVIEWS AND SELECTED SHORTER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Review of Christopher Casey, Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of International Law, American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2021) - 6 -
Review of Yossi Harpaz, Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset, International Migration Review (2020)
International Decisions: Trump v. Hawaii, 113 American Journal of International Law 109 (2019)
Review of Benjamin N. Lawrance & Jacqueline Stevens., eds., Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness, 16 Perspectives on Politics 586 (2018)
The Military Is Not Everything, 32 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 97 (2018) (response to Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything)
Review of Alice Edwards & Laura van Waas, eds., Nationality and Statelessness under International Law, 110 American Journal of International Law 148 (2016)
Review of Catherine Lee, Fictive Kinship, 129 Political Science Quarterly 724 (2014)
Review of Patrick Weil, The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic, 47 Journal of American Studies 113 (2013)
Constraining Global Corporate Power: A Short Introduction, 46 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1101 (2013)
Review of Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism, 107 American Journal of International Law 488 (2013)
The States Take On (Take In) International Law, 20 Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution 1101 (2013)
Review of Craig Robertson, The Passport in America: The History of a Document, 61 Journal of Legal Education 486 (2012)
Review of Jackie Smith, Social Movements for Global Democracy, 7 Perspectives on Politics 381 (2009)
Dual Nationality, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Rudiger Wolfrum, ed., Oxford University Press 2008)
International Decisions: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 100 American Journal of International Law 888 (2006)
Entries on Citizenship, Dual Citizenship, and State and Federal Regulation of Immigration, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge 2006)
Review of Renshon, The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror (Georgetown University Press, 2005), 82 International Affairs 411 (2006)
The Boundaries of Cosmopolitan Pluralism, 51 Wayne Law Review 1261 (2005) - 7 -
Naturalization, in Global Migration: An Encyclopedia (Matthew Gibney & Randall Hansen eds., ABC-CLIO, 2005)
Unpacking NGO Accountability, in From Government to Governance: The Growing Impact of Non-State Actors on the International and European Legal System (Wybo P. Heere ed., TMC Asser Press 2004)
Review of Joseph Nye, The Paradox of American Power (Oxford University Press, 2002), 97 American Journal of International Law 731 (2003)
Review of Ruth Rubio-Marin, Immigration as Democratic Challenge: Citizenship and Inclusion in Germany and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 579 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 274 (2002)
Tracing the Institutional Insinuation of International Law, Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (2001)
Federalism and Immigration: Models and Trends, 167 International Social Sciences Journal (UNESCO) 67 (2001)
Review of Yossi Shain, Marketing the American Creed Abroad (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 35 International Migration Review 327 (2001)
Supreme Court Knocks Down State Burma Law, ASIL Insight, June 2000
Federalism and International Law: A Third Account, Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 246 (2000)
Review of Michael Jones-Correa, Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell University Press, 1998), 33 International Migration Review 497 (1999)
Book Review Essay, 92 American Journal of International Law 808 (1998) (reviewing four books on non-state actors in international affairs)
Review of Jean-Marie Guehenno, The End of the Nation-State (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 90 American Journal of International Law 697 (1996)
Reconsidering the Role of Federalism in Immigration Policymaking, 19 In Defense of the Alien 91 (1996)
POLICY JOURNALS
The New Sovereigntists: American Exceptionalism and Its False Prophets, Foreign Affairs (November-December 2000)
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The Multinationals Among Us, Foreign Service Journal, September-October 2000
Embracing Dual Nationality, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace International Migration Project Occasional Paper No.1 (June 1998)
New Global Communities: Nongovernmental Organizations in International Decision-Making Institutions, Washington Quarterly, Winter 1995
The Limits of Federalism in Foreign Policymaking, Intergovernmental Perspective, Spring 1990
Taking Foreign Policy Away From the Feds, Washington Quarterly, Winter 1987-88
OP-EDs AND OTHER PRINT MEDIA
Is Trump’s Plan Legal?, New York Times, December 10, 2015
The Evolving Acceptance of Dual Citizenship, Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2014
Let Arizona Law Stand, New York Times, April 22, 2012
Immigration Reform Without Washington, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5, 2010
“Natural Born” Isn’t So Simple To Define, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30, 2009
National Security Counsel, New York Observer, June 26, 2008 (review of Wittes, Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror)
Justice Perverted by Politics and Fear, New York Observer, October 3, 2007 (review of Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency)
U.S. Isn’t Playing It Clean with Dirty Bomber, Newsday, June 14, 2002
U.S. Can't Hold Back World Pacts, Newsday, May 9, 2002
Seattle's Message Is That WTO Has To Open Up, Newsday, December 2, 1999
Congress, Presidency Lose on War Powers, Newsday, May 5, 1999
Hearing Local Voices on the World Stage, Legal Times, December 14, 1998
States That Flout World Opinion May Incur Loss, National Law Journal, May 4, 1998
Dual Citizens, Good Americans, Wall Street Journal, March 18, 1998 (with Schuck)
Building Bridges Between South Africa's Warring Parties, The Christian Science Monitor, May 7, 1987 - 9 -
Get the States and Cities Off Foreign Policy Stage, The Wall Street Journal, September 24, 1986
Don't Gut No-Fault, The Washington Post, November 18, 1985 (with J. O'Connell)
Paranoid Politics, The New Republic, February 6, 1984 (on Lyndon LaRouche)
Berlin Diarist, The New Republic, December 31, 1983
Iceland Diarist, The New Republic, November 8, 1982
ONLINE EDITORIALS AND BLOGS
COVID-19 and the Future of Dual Citizenship, EUI Global Citizenship Observatory, May 15, 2020
Wishful Nationalism, Lawfare, June 11, 2019
Citizenship After Trump, CMS Essays (Center for Migration Studies), November 29, 2017
Germany and the Erdogan Referendum: The Case for External Voting and Dual Citizenship, Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional (WZB Berlin), April 2, 2017
How the Courts Could See Their Way to Striking Down the Trump Travel Ban, Lawfare, February 2, 2017
The Waning Federal Monopoly Over Foreign Relations, Lawfare, January 9, 2017
Stuck with Two Passports, Aljazeera America, January 19, 2016
Why New York’s Proposal to Grant State Citizenship Makes Perfect Sense, Aljazeera America, June 25, 2014
Is State Citizenship the Answer to Immigration Reform?, New York Times Room for Debate, June 25, 2014
Against Ambassadors, Aljazeera America, March 11, 2014
It’s Time for Olympic Free Agency, Slate, February 6, 2014
An Extraordinary Case that Highlights the Ordinary, New York Times Room for Debate, January 31, 2014
Non-Citizen Voting Makes Sense. Why Don’t Liberals Agree?, Bloomberg View, June 19, 2013
Sovereignty Can’t Stop International Law, New York Times Room for Debate, December 6, 2012 - 10 -
Eliminate Nationality Rules, New York Times Room for Debate, July 26, 2012
Supreme Court Mostly Guts S.B. 1070, Scotusblog, June 25, 2012
Why the Court Will Duck S.B. 1070 Case (For Now), Scotusblog, July 12, 2011
A Natural Death Would Be Better, New York Times Room for Debate, July 30, 2010
SARS: Challenges at the Border and in the Backyard, Findlaw’s Writ, April 29, 2003
Baghdad: Last Stop for Bush Administration’s Preemption Doctrine, Findlaw’s Writ, April 12, 2003
The End Of The “War” (And of War As We Know It): Deploying A Law Enforcement Model In The Fight Against Terrorism, Findlaw’s Writ, January 31, 2002
Not War, Crimes, Findlaw’s Writ, September 19, 2001
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), Annual Meeting, Participant: Forum on Cosmopolitan Sovereignty, July 6, 2021
Council for European Studies, Annual Meeting, Book Panelist: John Torpey’s The Invention of the Passport, June 21, 2021
Association for the Study of Nationalities, Annual Meeting, Book Panelist, The American Passport in Turkey, May 6, 2021
European University Institute, Paper: Nationality Internationalized: The Harvard Research and the 1930 Hague Convention, Workshop: Drawing Boundaries: Moments in the History of Citizenship, April 26, 2021
Oxford University, Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society, Seminar on Citizenship by Investment, Paper: Investor Citizenship and the Log Leash of International Law, February 26, 2021
University of Vienna, Conference: Dual Citizenship: Political and Social Integration in an Era of Global Mobility, Panel: Dual Citizenship and International Law, December 19, 2019
WZB Berlin Social Science Institute, Roundtable: Polycivitas: Can We Have a "Home" in Multiple Countries?, June 26, 2019
Fordham Law School Legal Theory Workshop, Paper: Membership and Global Legal Pluralism, April 5, 2019 - 11 -
American University of Beirut, Center for American Studies and Research, Lecture: Dual Citizenship in an Age of Globalization, March 4, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Starr Forum Seminar: The Attack on Citizenship, October 4, 2018
Boston University Law School, William & Patricia Kleh Lecture in International Law: The End of Citizenship, September 13, 2018
Erasmus University/Mulier Institut Utrecht, Symposium: Sport and Nation: Citizenship, Migration and National Identity in the Context of Sport, Keynote Address: The End of Olympic Nationality, June 14, 2018
University of Sydney, Conference: The New Citizenship: Law, Legal Status and Belonging in the 21st Century, Keynote Address: The End of Citizenship, March 16, 2018
Queen Mary, University of London, Authors’ Conference: The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism, Paper: Membership and Global Legal Pluralism, November 16, 2017
International Law Association-American Branch, International Law Weekend, Panel: Defining Global Migration Law, October 20, 2017
NYU Center for Global Affairs, Expert Meeting on Statelessness, Citizenship and Inclusion, Panel: Research Methodologies, June 8, 2017
University of Arizona College of Law, William H. Rehnquist Center, Conference on Immigration Federalism, Panel: State/Local, February 24, 2017
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, Workshop Co-Organizer: What is Global Migration Law?, November 8-12, 2016
Yale-Duke Roundtable on Foreign Relations Law, Participant: The Future of International Agreements, New Haven, October 15, 2016
Law & Society Institute, Humboldt University Berlin, Workshop: The Equality Puzzles of Dual Citizenship, June 28, 2016
Investment Migration Council, Panel: Dual Citizenship and Investment Migration, Geneva, June 6, 2016
European University Institute, Dialogue: Equality Puzzles of Dual Citizenship, May 11, 2016
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Moderator: Conceptualizing Global Migration Law, April 1, 2016
Princeton University, Conference: Strategic Citizenship: Negotiating Membership in an Age of Dual Nationality, Keynote: The Equality Puzzles of Plural Citizenship, March 7, 2016 - 12 -
Jindal Global Law School, Lecture: Dual Citizenship in an Age of Globalization, Sonipat, India, November 1, 2015
University of Michigan Law School, Symposium: Citizenship and Taxation, Paper: FATCA and Citizenship Overreach, October 9, 2015
University of Warwick, Faculty Seminar: Dual Citizenship as Human Right, September 17, 2015
University of Sheffield School of Law, Conference: Unraveling the Talent Tale: Skilled Migration between National Images, Community Bonds and Economic Priorities, Keynote: Investor Citizenship and the End of the State, September 15, 2015
Association for the Study of Nationalities, Annual Meeting, Investor Citizenship: Citizenship in Crisis?, April 25, 2015
University of Miami Law School, Faculty Colloquium, Paper: Dual Citizenship in America and the World, April 10, 2015
National Association of Attorneys General, Midwest Regional Meeting, Panel: Foreign Affairs, Treaties, and Federalism, Indianapolis, April 1, 2015
International Law Association-American Branch, International Law Weekend, Panel: The Unintended Consequences of FATCA Overreach, October 24, 2014
American Society of International Law-Southeast, Junior Paper Conference, Discussant: Toward Global Governance of Cyberspace, Charlottesville, May 6, 2014
Arizona State University College of Law, International Law Colloquium, Paper: Expatriating Terrorists, March 31, 2014
Annual Meeting of the Council for European Studies, Discussant: A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950, Washington, March 14, 2014
St. John’s University Law School, International Law Colloquium, Paper: Expatriating Terrorists, October 21, 2013
American Bar Association Division for Public Education, 2013 Law-Related Education Conference, Panel: Citizenship in the Global Era, October 3, 2013
Fordham Law School, Symposium on Citizenship, Immigration, and National Security, Panel: Gaining and Losing Citizenship in the National Security Context, September 23, 2013
Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, College of Law, Faculty Workshop: A New International Law of Citizenship, July 11, 2013
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Pazmany Peter Catholic University Budapest, Conference on Multilevel Implications of a Changing Concept of Citizenship, Paper: Dual Citizenship, Identity Rights, and Political Stabilities, May 23, 2013
University of Indiana-Bloomington Maurer School of Law, Panel: State Immigration Regulation After Arizona v. United States, March 28, 2013
Maastricht University Centre for Human Rights, Conference on The Right to Citizenship, Lecture: The Right to Citizenship in International Law, March 7, 2013
Vanderbilt University School of Law, Symposium on The Role of Non-State Actors in International Law, Panel: NGOs and Human Rights, February 8, 2013
Cato Institute, Annual Supreme Court Review, Panel: Frontiers of Criminal Law: GPS Surveillance, Immigration, and Fleeting Obscenity, September 18, 2012
National Conference of State Legislators, 2012 Legislative Summit, Lecture: Immigration Policy and the States, August 6, 2012
American Enterprise Institute, Conference on Global Governance and the Challenge to the American Constitution, Panel: Effects of Globalization on International Law and Institutions, June 4, 2012
Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Roundtable on Citizenship in Question, Discussant: Second-Class Citizenship, April 21, 2012
William & Mary Law School, Institute of Bill of Rights Symposium on Non-Citizen Participation in the American Polity, Paper: The Difference that Citizenship Doesn’t Make, March 31, 2012
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Moderator: International Law and Migration, March 29, 2012
Duke University Law School, Participant: Book Symposium on Curtis Bradley’s International Law in the U.S. Legal System, March 23, 2012
Willamette University College of Law, Conference on International Law in State Government, Opening Remarks: The States as International Actors, March 8, 2012
Wayne State University Law School, Program for International Legal Studies, Lecture: Libya and War Powers, October 12, 2011
Harvard Law School, Workshop on Historical Practice and the President’s War Powers, Paper: Incremental War Powers, October 8, 2011
United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Testimony: Libya and War Powers, June 29, 2011
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University of California at Santa Barbara, Global Law Workshop, Panel: Non-State Actors in International Law, March 4, 2011
Arizona State University College of Law, Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law, Paper: An International Law of Citizenship, January 14, 2011
Southwestern Law School, Beyond Borders: Extraterritoriality in American Law, Paper: Questioning the (Normative) Salience of Territoriality, November 12, 2010
Rutgers University-Camden School of Law, Faculty Colloquium, Paper: Interrogating Birthright Citizenship, November 1, 2010
National Conference of State Legislators, Annual Meeting, Panel: Arizona Immigrant Trespassing Law: Cause for Preemption?, Louisville, July 28, 2010
Australian National University, Conference on Allegiance and Identity in a Globalized World, Paper: The End of Olympic Nationality, Canberra, July 20, 2010
University of New South Wales and Harvard University Department of Government, Workshop on Citizenship in a Globalized World: Perspectives from the Immigrant Democracies, Book Panel: Ayelet Shachar's The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, Sydney, July 15, 2010
Santa Clara University Law School, Faculty Colloquium, Paper: Interrogating Birthright Citizenship, March 8, 2010
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Legal Studies Speakers Series, Paper: Interrogating Birthright Citizenship, February 10, 2010
Open Society Institute London, Participant: Roundtable on States’ Obligations to the Stateless Under International Law, November 19-20, 2009
Fordham Law School, Cooper-Walsh Coloquium on Empowered Cities: The Emergence of Cities as Autonomous Actors, Paper: Formalizing Local Citizenship, October 30, 2009
Office of the National Director of Intelligence, Academic Focus Group: Dual Citizenship and Security Clearance Reform, September 24, 2009
Society for Historians of American Diplomatic Relations, Annual Meeting, Moderator: The Malleability of Law in American Empire, June 25, 2009
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne Law School, Paper: Interrogating Birthright Citizenship, May 15, 2009
Australian National University, John Fleming Visiting Fellow, Canberra, May 11-22, 2009
George Mason University Global Migration and Transnational Politics Project, Presentation: Citizenship and Diaspora: A State Home for Transnational Politics?, March 28, 2009 - 15 -
Georgetown University Faculty Colloquium, Paper: Interrogating Birthright Citizenship, March 26, 2009
Yale Law School, Colloquium on Law and Globalization, Paper: NGOs and Human Rights: Channels of Power, February 9, 2009
Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Featured Speaker: International Law and Citizenship Practices, December 11, 2008
Tel Aviv University, Law and Globalization Colloquium, Book Discussion: Beyond Citizenship, December 10, 2008
Fordham Law School, International Human Rights Colloquium, Paper: An International Law of Citizenship, November 3, 2008
Austen Riggs Psychiatric Center, Conference on Loving, Working, and Voting: The Dynamics of Citizenship, Lecture: The End of Citizenship, Stockbridge, October 19, 2008
Georgetown Law Center, International Human Rights Law Colloquium, Paper: An International Law of Citizenship, April 18, 2008
Center for the Study of Citizenship, Wayne State University, Conference on Boundaries, Book Panel: Beyond Citizenship, March 28, 2008
Migration Policy Institute, Book Launch: Beyond Citizenship, March 5, 2008
New York University Law School, Conference on “With Liberty and Justice for All: Noncitizens and Democratic Rights,” Panel Participant: Constitutional Borderlands and the Meaning of Citizenship, February 29, 2008
University of Missouri Law School, Beyond Missouri v. Holland: Explorations at the Intersection of Federalism and International Law, Commentator: International Law and Intersystemic Governance, February 16, 2008
American Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting Workshop on Local Government At Risk, Panel: Immigration Federalism, January 3, 2008
George Washington University Research Program on Diaspora Identity, Policy, and Development, Paper Presentation: Perfecting Political Diaspora, November 16, 2007
International Law Association International Law Weekend, Moderator: Shielding Citizens Abroad: The New Faces of Diplomatic Protection and Consular Assistance, October 26, 2007
Annual Meeting of the the American Political Science Association, Panel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration and International Relations, August 31, 2007
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Free University Amsterdam, Shaking Up Citizenship, Principal Presenter: Negotiating Tensions Between National Sovereignty, International Human Rights and Transnational Agency, April 21, 2007
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Moderator: Roundtable on Citizenship, March 29, 2007
Annual Meeting of the American Association of American Law Schools, Moderator: “We” Becoming: Histories of Naturalization, January 4, 2007
Florida State University Law School, Faculty Colloquium, Paper: American Defined, November 3, 2006
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Panel: Birthright Citizenship and U.S. Immigration Policy, August 31, 2006
Armenian International Policy Research Group, Conference on Dual Citizenship: Alternative Arrangements, Economic Implications, and Social Dimension, Keynote Speaker: Plural Citizenship as a Fact of Globalization, Yerevan, Armenia, June 17, 2006
Immigration Law Teachers Workshop, Panel: Federalism and Delegation, University of Las Vegas Law School, May 5, 2006
George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, Conference on Federalism and U.S. Foreign Relations, Presentation: Federalism, the Constitution, and Judicial Interpretations, April 27, 2006
University of Connecticut Law School, Conference on Law Beyond Boundaries, Paper: Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law, January 27, 2006
International Law Association International Law Weekend, Panel: Does International Law Threaten Democracy, October 22, 2005
Harvard Law School, Foreign Relations Law Workshop, Commentator: A Positive Theory of the War Powers Constitution, October 15, 2005
House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, Testimony: Dual Citizenship, Birthright Citizenship, and the Meaning of Sovereignty, September 29, 2005
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Panel: American Exceptionalism in Treaty Behavior, April 1, 2005
Annual Meeting of the American Association of American Law Schools, Panel: Who, Me? American Exceptionalism and International Law, January 7, 2005
George Washington National Law Center, International Law Colloquium, Paper: Mandated Membership, Diluted Identity, October 4, 2004 - 17 -
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Commentator: Linking Multiple Identities to the Demands of Democratic Citizenship, June 14, 2004
Wharton School Colloquium on International Law and Institutions, Paper: Disaggregating U.S. Interest in International Law, May 15, 2004
Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, Panel: Who Watches the Watchdogs? Regulation and Accountability in the NGO Sector, April 24, 2004
University of Iowa Law School, Faculty Workshop, Paper: Mandated Membership, Diluted Identity, November 14, 2003
Ohio State University Law School, Faculty Workshop, Paper: Mandated Membership, Diluted Identity, October 31, 2003
University of California at Los Angeles Law School, Paper: Mandated Membership, Diluted Identity, September 5, 2003
Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law, From Government to Governance?, Panelist: Legitimacy and the Accountability of Non-Governmental Organizations, July 4, 2003
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, Workshop on the Promises and Pitfalls of International Courts, Paper: Who’s Afraid of Global Courts?, May 19-25, 2003
Stanford Law School, Symposium on Treaties, Enforcement, and U.S. Sovereignty, Paper: International Trumps, February 22, 2003
Duke University Law School, Annual Public Law Conference on “The Constitution and Other Legal Systems: Are There Progressive and Conservative Versions?”, Panel: International Law, December 13-14, 2002
Georgetown Law Center/PEGS Discussion Group on Constitutional Law, Paper: War and the Constitution, December 6-7, 2002
Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Roundtable Participant and Paper: 9/11: Insinuating Constitutional and International Norms, May 14, 2002
Georgetown Law Center, Legal Theory Colloquium, Paper: Globalization and the Constitution, March 7, 2002
Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Conference on New Technologies and International Governance, Panel: The Challenge of Democracy, February 12, 2002
Center for Immigration Studies, Panel: Dual Citizenship and American National Identity, National Press Club, Washington, January 31, 2002
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University of California-San Diego, Workshop on Globalization and Citizenship, Paper: Citizenship and International Law, November 16, 2001
University of Chicago Law School, International Law Colloquium, Paper: NGOs in International Institutions, October 8, 2001
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Moderator: International Law and the Work of Federal and State Legislators, April 5, 2001
American Enterprise Institute, Issues for the New Administration and the New Decade, Panel: Is There Any Room for American Federalism in International Law, April 4, 2001
University of Texas Law School, Faculty Colloquium, Paper: Globalization and the Constitution, March 23, 2001
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Panel: Burma Sanctions and the Constitution, January 5, 2001
Cardozo Law School Faculty Workshop, Paper: Treaties, Interchangeability, and Constitutional Method, November 13, 2000
International Law Association International Law Weekend, Panel: The Global Democracy Deficit, New York, October 27, 2000
Fordham University Law School Faculty Workshop, Paper: Treaties, Interchangeability, and Constitutional Method, October 5, 2000
McCormick Foundation Catigny Conference Series, Immigration and Citizenship in America, Panel: Dual Citizenship, Chicago, July 27-28, 2000
Columbia University International Law Workshop, Paper: Constitutional Method and the Great Treaty Debate, April 23, 2000
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Panel: The Foreign Affairs Power of the U.S. Executive in Light of Changing Conceptions of States’ Rights, April 6, 2000
University of Virginia Law School, Symposium on Accountability and International Law, Panel: International Law and the Constitution, February 19, 2000
German Marshall Fund Project on Dual Nationality, Paper: Political Rights and Dual Nationality, Mexico City, February 16-18; Berlin, July 14-16; Istanbul, October 14-16, 2000
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Panel: Massachusetts and the Trade Laws, October 13, 1999
Georgetown Law Center, Symposium on Immigration Law and the Supreme Court, Moderator: General Trends, October 8, 1999
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Forum of Federations, International Conference on Federalism, Background Paper: Federalism and Immigration, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, October 6-9, 1999
Open Society Institute, Annual Fellows Conference, Panel: Citizenship: Can You Pass the Test?, July 9, 1999
Duke University, Workshop on Changing Boundaries of Membership, Presenter: Globalization and American Citizenship, June 4-6, 1999
Yale Law School, Schell Center for Human Rights, Symposium on Human Rights Advocacy, Panelist: Human Rights Advocacy and Scholarship, April 24, 1999
New York University Law School, Colloquium on Foreign Notions: The Changing Rights of Immigrants in the United States, Panelist: Civic Participation of Aliens, April 8, 1999
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Panel: U.S. State and Local Trade Sanctions: Can Massachusetts "Free Burma"?, March 26, 1999
University of Colorado Law School, Symposium on Foreign Relations Law, Paper: Federalism and Foreign Relations, January 23, 1999
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Panel: Perspectives on Citizenship, January 9, 1999
New School for Social Research, International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship, Panel: Citizenship: National or Transnational, November 19, 1998
Brooklyn Law School International Economic Law Colloquium, Paper: Federalism and Foreign Relations, November 18, 1998
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paper: Embracing Dual Nationality, June 27, 1998
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Plenary Panel: The Challenge of Non-State Actors, April 2, 1998
Duke University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Moderator and Planning Committee Member: Workshop on Citizenship and Nationality, October 30-November 2, 1998
Annual Meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Georgetown University, Paper: The Great Treaty Debate, June 17, 1997
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, MacArthur Conference on Visions and Frictions in the Information Age: Governance and Transnational Society, Panel: Human Rights and Democracy: New Voices, New Threats?, April 18, 1997
University of Connecticut Law School, Symposium on Immigration Law, Paper: Immigration and a Federalism Benign, April 4, 1997
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Fordham University School of Law, Conference on Human Rights on the Eve of the Next Century, Paper: The States and International Human Rights, February 28, 1997
Cardozo Law School, Conference on the Decline of the Nation-State: Its Effect on International Economic and Constitutional Law, Panel Commentator, March 11, 1996
New York University Law School Colloquium on International Law, Paper: Outlines of a Post- National Law, February 8, 1996
Yale Law School, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Roundtable Participant: Advocacy for International Human Rights: A Strategic Dialogue, November 10-11, 1995
Hague Workshop on the Evolving Nature of Sovereignty and the Future of Global Security, co- sponsored by the American Society of International Law and the Academic Council for the UN System, Presenter and Participant, The Hague, July 16-28, 1995
Annual Meeting of the Academic Council for the UN System, Panelist: NGOs and Participatory Legitimacy in the UN System, June 19, 1995
Academic Council for the UN System Workshop on Nongovernmental Organizations, the United Nations, and Global Governance, York University, Discussant, April 10-11, 1995
Center for Migration Studies 18th National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy, Panelist: Legal Challenges to State Anti-Alien Measures, March 30, 1995.
University of Virginia Law School, Symposium on Immigration Law and the New Century, Principal Paper: The States and Immigration, January 28, 1995
Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Luncheon Speakers Series, Presider: A Discussion with Morton Halperin, December 14, 1994
New York University Law School, NYU Journal of International Law and Policy Symposium, Panelist: New Voices in the New World Order, November 11, 1994
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellows Seminar, Panelist: Trade, the Environment and Human Rights, June 3, 1994
The 83rd American Assembly, Participant: Public Engagement in U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War, Arden House, June 3-6, 1993
GRANTS
Open Society Institute Individual Project Fellowship, Project: The Law of United States Citizenship, 1998-99
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, Project: The Role of Non- Governmental Organizations in International Decision-making, 1993-94 - 21 -
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Director for Democracy, National Security Council, Washington, D.C. Staff member with interagency coordinating responsibilities for matters relating to Haiti, international broadcasting, China, and human rights policy. White House position; service during Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. May-August 1994.
Resident Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. Conducted study of the role of non-state actors in global decision-making while on Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. September 1993-May 1994.
Associate, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C. November 1991-August 1993.
Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Initial one-year assignment as special assistant to Legal Adviser Abraham D. Sofaer. August 1987-June 1989.
Intern, Office of the Legal Adviser (African Affairs), U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. July-August 1986.
Summer Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, NY. May-July 1986.
Summer Visitor, Freshfields Solicitors, London, England. May-July 1985.
Staff Writer, Financial Mail, Johannesburg, South Africa. Wrote over 35 news stories, personality profiles, and book reviews for South Africa's leading newsmagazine. February-August 1984, July-August 1985.
Reporter-Researcher, The New Republic, Washington, D.C. Authored editorials and articles over own byline for national opinion magazine. September 1982-March 1983.
EDUCATION
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Va., May 1987. Order of the Coif. Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review. Editorial Board, Virginia Journal of International Law.
B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., June 1982. Concentration: History (honors). Reviews Editor, Harvard Political Review.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - 22 -
• Robert Schuman Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (spring 2016) • Senior Visiting Researcher, WZB – Berlin Social Science Institute (June-July 2019) • Co-founder and Co-Chair, Migration Law Interest Group, American Society of International Law (2015-17) • Member, International Mobility Treaty Commission, Columbia Global Policy Initiative (2016-17) • Member, Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, U.S. Department of State (2008-12) (ASIL designate) • Project Scholar, Citizenship in the 21st Century, American Bar Association-American Library Association Public Education Program (2013-14) • Member, Investment Migration Council (2014-2019) • Editorial Advisory Board, Citizenship and Migration in the Americas series, NYU Press (2010- ) • Chair, AALS Section on Immigration Law (2006-07) • Core Group Member, Social Sciences Research Council project on interdisciplinary approaches to international law (2003-06) • Program Committee Member, 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law • Advisory Board Member, Legal Scholarship Network: Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Law Abstracts • Visiting Professor, University of Texas Law School (Spring 2001) • Visiting Scholar, Brooklyn Law School, Fall 1998, Cardozo Law School, Fall 2001 • Expert consultant, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1996) • Member, Committee on International Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1995-98, 2000-04); Member, Committee on International Human Rights (2017- ) • Ranked in top 20 of legal scholars entering the field since 1992 on basis of citation frequency (Leiter Educational Quality Rankings 2002); top 15 among all international law professors (2007); top 25 (2016); top 20 (2018)
Peer Reviewer (journals, presses, foundations):
American Political Science Review Harvard University Press American Journal of International Law Cambridge University Press Citizenship Studies MIT Press International Migration Review Harvard Law Review Policy Studies Journal Stanford Law Review Latino Studies Yale Law Journal Open Society Institute Fellowship Programs Stanford University Press MacArthur Foundation University of Pennsylvania Press Social Sciences and Humanities Research Oxford University Press Council of Canada New York University Press Netherlands Organization for Scientific Routledge Research Melbourne International Law Review Aspen Law and Business Publishing International Migration Review Princeton University Press Publius: A Journal of Federalism University of Chicago Press International Studies Quarterly - 23 - Political Geography International Journal of Constitutional Law British Journal of Sociology Perspectives on Politics Canadian Journal of Political Science Nordic Law Journal Law & History Review European Journal of International Relations Statelessness & Citizenship Review Democratization Ethics & International Affairs
Peer Reviewer (appointments/tenure):
Harvard Law School University of Iowa Law School Duke Law School University of Kentucky Law School Washington University Law School, University of Seattle Law School Vanderbilt Law School University of South Carolina Law School Brooklyn Law School Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Washington and Lee University Law School Wayne State University Law School Graduate Institute Geneva Arizona State University Law School Ozyegin University Istanbul University of Illinois Law School George Washington University Law School William & Mary Law School UCLA Law School Rutgers University Law School University of Buffalo Law School University of Arizona Law School University of Cincinnati Law School Drexel University Law School University of Georgia Law School University of Oklahoma Law School Hofstra University Law School Santa Clara University Law School
Selected Media (most multiple):
New York Times Le Monde Wall Street Journal ABCNews.com Washington Post Jerusalem Post Los Angeles Times CNN.com Boston Globe CBSNews.com Bloomberg BBC News Slate Associated Press Newsday Reuters Chicago Tribune Gannett Atlanta Journal-Constitution McClatchy St. Petersburg Times Japan Times Baltimore Sun Politico Houston Chronicle Vox USA Today Aljazeera America Washington Times ForeignPolicy.com Philadelphia Inquirer NPR Here and Now Financial Times NPR Morning Edition The Atlantic NPR All Things Considered Christian Science Monitor NPR Talk of the Nation - 24 -
NPR The Takeaway MSNBC First Read PRI The World ABA Journal WHYY Radio Times