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In this lecture, Martin Scheinin and Christophe Paulussen assess the practice of citizenship stripping as a counterterrorism measure and argue that it is problematic from both an international human rights law and a security
perspective. They argue that citizenship stripping clashes with international law obligations and question whether it
can be the least intrusive means available. According to the lecturers, depriving someone of their nationality does
not also guarantee national security as it fails to bring people to justice, rehabilitate and reintegrate them, but rather
exports the issue somewhere else, enhancing the risk of further radicalisation and threat towards national security.
MARTIN SCHEININ is British Academy Global Professor at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights of the University
of Oxford and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. From
2005–2011 he was the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. He has also served as a member of the United Nations Human Rights
Committee and was President of the International Association of Constitutional Law.
CHRISTOPHE PAULUSSEN is a senior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and coordinator of its research
strand ‘Human Dignity and Human Security in International and European Law’. He also coordinates the interfaculty
research platform ‘International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform’ and is research fellow at the International Centre
for Counter- Terrorism in The Hague. Christophe is also editor-in-chief of the journal ‘Security and Human Rights’.
FURTHER READING
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Martin Scheinin & Christophe Paulussen (2020) Deprivation of Nationality as a Counter - Terrorism Measure:
a Human Rights and Security Perspective
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (2020) The World’s Stateless 2020: Deprivation Of Nationality
This lecture is part of the GLOBAL SEMINAR SERIES ON CITIZENSHIP STRIPPING.