A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive ...

February 8, 2025 • At the center of legal challenges against Trump's executive actions is whether he's telling federal agencies to violate a key legal standard established nearly 80 years ago.

The US has historically given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the norm ...

Sometimes jus soli in Europe is restricted by the prohibition ... "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." ...

“This law does no longer represent the real Italy ... “In a world of massive migration and irregular migration, unconditional jus soli is an anachronism,” said Christian Joppke, a ...

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The mock trial is a practical part of the Master of Maritime Law program. The students are divided into two groups - for the plaintiff and for the defendant - in a trial. The groups are given a text ...

Donald Trump’s executive order aims to end birthright citizenship for children born in the US to parents on temporary visas, scheduled to take effect in February 2025. Legal experts deem the ...

Eventually, both the United States and Canada are likely to follow the same path as other countries that have abandoned unrestricted jus soli in recent decades, regardless of what the law might ...

This is called “birthright citizenship” and is based on the legal idea of jus soli, which means ‘right of the soil’ in Latin. The concept comes from English common law, which stated that people born ...