Fight­ing State­less­ness and Dis­crim­in­at­ory Na­tion­al­ity Laws in Europe

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Laura van Waas’s art­icle in the European Journ­al of Mi­gra­tion and Law fo­cuses on two limits that struc­ture na­tion­al­ity law in Europe: the avoid­ance of state­less­ness and the pro­hib­i­tion of dis­crim­in­a­tion. It traces how these stand­ards have de­veloped through the European Con­ven­tion on Na­tion­al­ity and emer­ging re­gion­al case law, with par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to the sig­ni­fic­ance of the ECJ’s Rottmann judg­ment and the ECtHR’s Gen­ov­ese ruling.