Anja Bossow
Anja Bossow’s scholarship draws on rights theory and liberal constitutional theory to examine how a constitutional order should regulate the government’s authority over immigration and citizenship. Her current research interests include deportation, citizenship stripping and rule of law decline in immigration governance. Her work is forthcoming in the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics and DeGruyter, and she has been a regular contributor to public law blogs such as Verfassungsblog and The Democracy Review.
Bossow, who hails from Germany, holds an LL.M. in legal theory from New York University, 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 and Political Science, 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. She is currently completing her J.S.D. at New York University School of Law under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Waldron. Her dissertation offers a legal-theoretical account of when, why and how governments acting within the framework of a liberal constitutional order may deprive us of citizenship status once vested.
Several high courts have recently upheld citizenship deprivation’s constitutionality within a liberal constitutional order. In this draft, I challenge...
In Trop v. Dulles, the U.S. Supreme Court proscribed denationalization as a form of cruel and unusual punishment. In this draft, I argue that while...