Dimitry Kochenov: 'We are piercing tiny holes in the fences erected by nation states'
Ideas about what forms the basis of citizenship have constantly evolved. To view it as being purely about ius soli (right of the soil, ie, for those born in the territory) or ius sanguinis (a blood link) is outdated.Why shouldn’t ius pecuniae be among them? Globalisation has turned citizenship into a commodity. Prof. Dimitry Kochenov, a constitutional-law expert at Groningen University, is quoted in The Economist: 'We help people cross barriers and contribute to the societies of their choice'.
This article was published by the Faculty of Law.
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