Family Law and Nationality
Project period: 2024
Family law is closely intertwined with the law of nationality. In particular, a person's nationality is linked to his or her line of descent. Legislators and practitioners therefore face the task of harmonizing areas of law that are already subject to their own individual dynamics. In addition, questions of nationality often have an international dimension, such that further complexity is added by the need to coordinate between the various family laws of third countries.
The reform of nationality law provides an opportunity to analyse this self-made complexity and to examine the extent to which the established divisions amongst various areas of law can give rise to their own dynamic whenever the aims of one area of law lead to changes in another.