Citizenship and Penal Law

Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy, The

Natural Law and Birthright Citizenship in Calvin's Case (1608)

Genetic citizenship: DNA testing and the Israeli Law of Return

The Israeli State recently announced that it may begin to use genetic tests to determine whether potential immigrants are Jewish or not. This development would demand a rethinking of Israeli law on the issue of the definition of Jewishness. In this article, we discuss the historical and legal context of secular and religious definitions of Jewishness and rights to immigration in the State of Is...

Historicising “Law” as a Language of Progress and Its Anomalies: The Case of Penal Law Reforms in Colonial India

This paper dispels the myth of liberal enlightenment in relation to penal law reforms in colonial India by advancing two sets of argument. First, the liberal project of codification on the basis of universalist notion of utilitarianism never broke with cultural hierarchy inbuilt in the very act of colonisation. In this paper, I specifically look into the emerging phenomenon of evolutionary scie...

Determinants of Penal Policies