Anja Bossow

Anja Bossow’s research integrates comparative citizenship and immigration law with rights theory and normative constitutional theory to offer a legal-theoretical account of when, why and how governments acting within the framework of a liberal-democratic constitutional order may deprive us of citizenship status. 

Bossow, who hails from Germany, is a J.S.D. candidate at the New York University School of Law. She holds an LL.M. in legal theory from NYU, where she studied as a Dean’s Graduate Scholar and German Academic Exchange Service Scholar and was a recipient of the David H. Moses Memorial Prize for obtaining the highest academic average. She also holds an LL.M from the London School of Economics, where she received the Lawyers Alumni Prize for obtaining the best overall result, and a B.A. in law with French law from the University of Oxford. Bossow’s research interests include immigration and constitutional law, international human rights law, and citizenship theory and constitutional theory.