The European Union has not developed thus far a coherent framework of common criteria for immigrant admission into EU citizenship, nor a common integration policy for newcomers. In light of this state of affairs, the Workshop will examine the pros and cons of adopting an EU Directive on Citizenship.

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the European University Institute and the London School for Economics and Political Science are proud to jointly organize the second annual European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law and Jurisprudence (EJFF).

The book talk introduces Primavera De Filippi's and Aaron Wright's "Blockchain and the Law", which urges the legal systems to catch up with emerging technologies. It makes clear that the emerging technology cannot be harnessed productively without new rules and new approaches to legal thinking.

The workshop "Emerging Technologies and the Future of Citizenship" addresses the challenges and opportunities that emerging technologies pose to existing theories and practices of citizenship. The public keynote lecture "The People: Hearing Us, As Sensible" is held by Lawrence Lessig (Harvard University).

Is the genuine link doctrine still a good law for assessing membership? And what is the meaning of a genuine link in a globalized world? This event, which is dedicated to the work of Rainer Bauböck, addresses these and further questions about citizenship and belonging in a panel discussion and subsequent lecture.

Emerging technologies will fundamentally alter the institution of citizenship. New technologies are already blurring the lines between physical and digital, local and global. The roundtable discussed how technology can remodel the essence of citizenship, bring about new citizenship regimes, and redefine the demos.

The first European workshop of COALA LEX is jointly organised by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Law Department of the European University Institute. It convenes experts in blockchain technologies together with a small group of key stakeholders across government, academia and tech industry.

This event seeks to understand the varieties of citizenship in a globalised world. It celebrates the continuous geographical and thematic expansion of GLOBALCIT, the successor of EUDO Citizenship since 2017, and creates synergies with the Global Citizenship Governance Project based at the EUI and the WZB Berlin.

Opening lecture to the international workshop, "Migration, Citizenship, and Democracy”, which brings together a team of scholars from different countries and disciplines, who focus on the empirical and normative developments to the concepts of citizenship and democracy that result from global migration.

The workshop explored how migration affects constitutional identity and whether is it justified to impose immigration restrictions in order to protect constitutional essentials. It discussed national, regional, and global challenges presented by international migration.