Transnational Law and Statehood
Within the research field of "Transnational Law and Statehood" the research at the Institute for European Global Studies includes a focus on questions of citizenship, identity and belonging in contemporary societies and their transformation in and through transnational law. Today, states continue to use citizenship as an important marker of belonging and exclusion. On the one hand, barriers for acquisition of citizenship through naturalization have been raised and deprivation of citizenship increasingly used as a measure to protect national security in many European states. On the other hand, new forms of legal and digital identity are introduced to facilitate global mobility for certain groups. On the basis of these fault lines between state sovereignty, shifting borders and individual rights the research in this area looks at the regulation of legal and digital identity in international, regional and domestic law and explores transformative potential of these new developments for citizenship and democratic membership in the 21st century.
Principal Investigator of the Research Area
Dr. iur. Barbara von Rütte, LL.M.
Postdoc
Institute for European Global Studies,
University of Basel
Riehenstrasse 154
CH-4058 Basel
Office 00.012
Tel.: +41 (0)61 207 48 91