Citizenship Stripping and the ICCPR
Date & time
Venue
Fellows Road Lecture Theatre 1, Building 6A, ANU College of Law, 6 Fellows Road, ACT 2601
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Presented by Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL)
In this seminar, Professor Kim Rubenstein and Dr Paul Taylor will examine the framework for citizenship deprivation (and the new proposed amendments) in the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) against the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Speakers
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Professor Kim Rubenstein »
Professor Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Law School and a public policy fellow at the ANU and is the author of Australian Citizenship Law (Thomsons, 2nd ed 2016). Kim teaches a comparative citizenship law course in the ANU LLM program and has appeared in the High Court, Federal Court and AAT in various citizenship law matters and in the past has been a consultant to government on citizenship legislation and policy.
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Dr Paul Taylor »
Dr Paul Taylor has been a CIPL Visiting Fellow while completing his book, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, A Commentary, on the UN Human Rights’ Committee’s monitoring of ICCPR Rights (to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020). He has also written extensively in his other areas interest, which include Conflict of Laws, Competition Law and Intellectual Property.
