Bulletin n. 2/2011
October 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Kirsch Andrea
    The Loss of Citizenship by Revocation of Naturalization or ex lege: Overview of German Case Law and Legislative Changes of 2009
    in German Law Journal , Vol. 12, issue 8 ,  2011 ,  1659-1680
    In recent years, German nationality law was subject to changes. Several legal issues that had previously not been decided by the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court—FAC) and the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court—FCC) were clarified by these courts. Still, some questions had been left unanswered; the courts explicitly demanded that parliament become active. Issues were namely the time limit for revocation of naturalization, the effect of revocations on third parties (like children) that had been naturalized at the same time and the effects of the discontinuance of certain premises that had been the condition for the obtainment of citizenship by children ex lege on their naturalization. Parliament complied with this call to action; in February of 2009, the changes came into force. This article deals with revocation of naturalizations obtained by fraud on the one hand and with the question to what extent the citizenship of children is affected in the cases mentioned on the other hand. For that purpose, both the case law as well as the legislative changes will be presented and compared to each other. Full text available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/index.php?pageID=11&artID=1378
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