Dimitry Kochenov

I study global citizenship and constitutionalism, with a particular emphasis on the Rule of Law, EU federalism, EU external relations law, and EU Law of the Overseas: the former colonial possessions and their upgraded ties with the European Union.

My little MIT Press book Citizenship has been translated into several languages and reviewed in NYRB. It argues that citizenship is not necessarily a good thing. Passport apartheid has to end.

I lead the Rule of Law research group at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest and teach Global Citizenship at CEU Legal Studies department in Vienna. Besides, I eagerly teach Rule of Law, citizenship and different aspects of EU constitutionalism elsewhere in the world. This semester I am an affiliate of the EU program at Princeton University, in the Fall I teach EU Citizenship and the Rule of Law at LUISS Guido Carli Law School in Rome. To make an impact outside the ivory tower, I consult governments, law firms, and international institutions on the subjects of my interest and write op-eds, record podcasts, and give interviews. The most rewarding engagements so far have been related to the reform of the constitutional structure of the Dutch overseas possessions, trying to use EU law to protect the right of the Chagossians expelled by the British crown from their archippelago to fish in BIOT waters, advising European Parliament on the Rule of Law in the Union, and the reform of Maltese citizenship law introducing citizenship by investment on the island. I served as the founding chairman of the IMC Investment Migration Council (Geneva).
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My work on citizenship, the quality of nationalities and the rule of law is constantly in the press:* e.g. NYT / FT / FT / The Economist / The New Yorker / CBC Sunday Edition / 1843 / Forbes / Bloomberg / The Guardian / BBC Russian / BBC Russian / BBC Russian / BBC Russian / The Daily Mail / New Internationalist / Quartz / The Globe and Mail / La Libre Belgique / Die Welt / fd / NRC / El Punt Avui / La República / DW / Коммерсантъ / etc.

* Abundant trolling by Breitbart, Nieuwsuur, BizPac and in the Tweede Kamer included.

Google scholar: h-index 38; i-10 index 103
SSRN top 50 by downloads in the world in legal studies

I held visiting research and teaching appointments at Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School, LAPA Crane Fellowship), Oxford University (Centre for Migration, Policy and Society), The College of Europe, NYU Law School (Emile Noël Fellowship), Boston College Law School (Senior Clough Fellowship), Osaka Graduate School of Law, Institute of Global Studies (Basel), York University (Toronto), UNAM (Mexico City), Turin Faculty of Law (Visiting Chair in Private Law), LUISS Guido Carli Faculty of a Law (co-Chair of EU Law) and many others. Giving talks, guest-lectures and key-notes brought me to countless countries and institutions worldwide. My previous chair before moving to a research professorship at CEU was at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

My books include, inter alia, Citizenship / Cittadinanza / Гражданство/ Shtetësia /Cetăţenie (MIT Press, 2019 / Il Mulino 2020 / Эксмо 2021 / AlbJuris 2022 / Idea 2023); Citizenship and Residence Sales: Rethinking the Boundaries of Belonging (eds with K. Surak, Cambridge, 2023); Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law (eds with M. Tushnet, Edward Elgar, 2023); Respect for the Rule of Law in the Case-law of the Court of Justice (with L. Pech, SIEPS Stockholm, 2021) Kälin and Kochenov's Quality of Nationality Index (eds with J. Lindeboom, Hart Publishing, 2020) European Citizenship under Stress (eds with E. Muir and N. Cambien, Brill-Nijhoff, 2020); The Internal Market and the Future of European Integration (eds with F. Amtenbrink et al., Cambridge, 2019) EU Citizenship and Federalism: The Role of Rights (ed. Cambridge, 2017); Enforcement of EU Law and Values (eds with A. Jakab, Oxford, 2017) and Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union (eds with C.Closa, Cambridge, 2016); Europe's Justice Deficit? (eds with G. de Búrca and A. Williams, Hart Publishing 2015); The EU's Shaping of the Internatinal Legal Order (eds with F. Amtenbrink, Cambridge, 2013) EU Enlargement and the Failure of Conditionality (Kluwer Law International, 2008)

Among my key articles are: 'Unlawful Nationality-Based Bans from the Schengen Zone: Poland, Finland and the Baltic States against Russian Citizens and EU Law' Yale J. Int'l L. Features 2023 (with S. Ganty and S. Roy, forthcoming); 'EU Lawlessness Law: Europe's Passport Apartheid from Indifference to Torture and Killing' NYU Jean Monnet Paper 2/2022 (with S. Ganty); 'Kirchberg Salami Lost in Bosphorus' 60 JCMS 2022, 150 (with P. Bárd); 'Independence of the Court of Justice of the European Union' 27 ELJ 2021, 262 (with G. Butler); 'Ending the Passport Apartheid' 18 I-CON 2020, 1525; 'EU Values Are Law, After All' 38 YEL 2020, 3 (with K.L. Scheppele and B. Grabowska-Moroz); 'Against "Associate EU Citizenship"' 57 JCMS 2019, 1366 (with M. van den Brink); 'The Commission's Rule of Law Mechanism and Its First Activation' 53 JCMS 2016, 1062 (with L. Pech); 'EU Law without the Rule of Law' 34 YEL 2015, 74; 'EU Citizenship without Duties' 20 ELJ 2014, 482; 'Beyond the Cherry Blossoms and the Moon?' 62 ICLQ 2013, 97; 'The Right to Have What Rights?' 13 ELJ 2013, 502; 'EU Citizenship: From an Incipient Form to an Incipient Substance?' 37 ELRev 2012, 369 (with Sir Richard Plender); 'Double Nationality in the EU: An Argument for Tolerance' 17 ELJ, 2011, 323; 'Annotation of Rottmann' 47 CMLRev 2010, 1831; 'Gays and European Federalism' 33 Fordham Int'l L.J. 2009, 156; 'Ius Tractum of Many Faces' 15 Colum. J. Eur. L. 2009, 169.

Dimitry Kochenov

Citizenship

Boston, MA: MIT Press (2019)

András Jakab and Dimitry Kochenov (eds.)

The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member State Compliance

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xxxviii + 540pp.

Carlos Closa and Dimitry Kochenov (eds.)

Reinforcing the Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, xxvi + 340pp.

Dimitry Kochenov, Gráinne de Búrca and Andrew Williams (eds.)

Europe's Justice Deficit?

Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015, xxxix + 468pp.