When

Monday, September 22, 2014

Optional dinner at Ristorante Galeassi

Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Program

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Where

Centro di Studi Americani

Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32

Rome, Italy

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$275 by August 31

$325 after September 1

Presented By:

Federal Bar Association

Immigration & International Law Sections and the Chicago Chapter

Loyola University of Chicago

John Felice Rome Center

Stanford University

Arthur Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance

Our affiliate, Stanford's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, is a co-sponsor of this unique program in Rome this September. Indeed, our own board member, Dan Siciliano, will be one of the presenters. This conference will explore citizenship and nationality questions in various contexts, including the current crisis in the Ukraine, succession movements in the UK, Spain and Italy and the current "selling" of citizenship in Malta. The conference will also discuss the "super citizen," those with access to multiple citizenships who may be able -- through technology -- to supersede national boundaries.

Lon Allan

The Ukraine: Annexation or Self-Determination?

This panel will consider the implications on citizenship in the Ukraine after the hurried vote in Crimea to join Russia. It will review the latest developments both from the perspective of the Ukraine as well as the international community.

Secession Movements in Europe: Scotland, Catalonia and Padania

Both Catalonia and Scotland have votes scheduled in 2014 on whether to become independent nations. Italy has a similar movement in northern Italy. This panel will present the circumstances of these secession movements and the implications to national and EU citizenship.

Bartering for Citizenship: Malta and MAVNI

The panel will discuss the Pros and Cons of selling citizenship in the small country of Malta, 50 miles south of Sicily, which it hopes will raise about two billion for development. The program, begun in February, 2014, has already attracted interest from hundreds of applicants. And, in a return to an ancient Roman practice, the US military has embraced the concept of granting citizenship in exchange for military service under the MAVNI (Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest) program, and gain citizenship immediately upon enlistment.

Citizenship as a Civil or Human Right

"Cosmopolitan citizenship" has created new forms of inequality. There are now super-citizens, marginal citizens, quasi-citizens, sub-citizens and un-citizens. This panel will look at the particular situation in Italy as an arrival country for people fleeing political strife and poverty, and the implications in Italy and the EU. It will also address the immigration debate in the U.S. with over 11 million people seeking legal status.

Multinational, Transnational and Supra-national Citizen

This panel will explore the emergence of an elite "supra-citizen" in the high tech, international business and economic communities who have moved away from national identity. They will be discussing global trends relating to this, including, perhaps, the implications of Bitcoin, a nongovernmental, bank-free currency.

Evening Reception

Hotel Ponte Sisto Garden

Presentation of a Global Citizenship Award to the Honorable C�cile Kyenge, former Minister of Integration for Italy and recently elected to EU Parliament.