MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Frédéric Mégret

Duties to Nationals Abroad?

Guest presenter: Frédéric Mégret is a Professor of Law and the holder of the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law. He is currently the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Presentation: What duties, if any, do states owe their nationals abroad? International law has long emphasized the prerogatives that states may exercise in relation to host states on behalf of their nationals, but less so the constitutional and human rights dimensions of minding their fate. The existence of long term expatriatre populations raises a range of questions: about their protection from the host state, but also their ability to return to the home state or their democratic participation within it. What is missing is a theory the rights of citizens abroad. I will argue that we can think of such rights drawing on Hannah Arendt’s notion of the right to have rights: a human right to citizenship rights that takes seriously the “ties that bind” states to their extra-territorial populations and vice versa.

Time: 13 December 2024 15:00-16:15

Place: MOBILE – 6B-2-22 Southern Campus + Online

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