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Abstract

This paper compares and contrasts the international legal regime which regulates the nationality of both a physical and a legal person. The authors discuss the juridical nature of nationality, nationality of a res and of humans, and reflect upon the recent sale by states of their nationality to non-citizens thereby shifting human nationality closer to the commodification of nationality of which ships are a traditional instance. It concludes that nationality of ships and of humans has in some legal systems moved away from the classical International Court of Justice’s Nottebohm case requirement of a pre-existing genuine link to one where nationality is reduced to a commodity.

DOI

10.2478/iclr-2018-0007

Publication Date

2018-01-31

Publication Title

International and Comparative Law Review

Volume

17

Issue

1

ISSN

1213-8770

Organisational Unit

Plymouth Business School

Keywords

Flags of convenience, Ship registration, Ship nationality, Bareboat registration, Citizenship, Nationality, Dual citizenship, Sale of passports, Genuine link, Statelessness, Interdiction, Revocation of nationality, Nottebohm case, Legal fiction, Commodification of nationality

First Page

167

Last Page

191

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