Biography

Christian Prener is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Southern Denmark and a current Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellow at the Global Citizenship research group, led by Professor Maarten Vink at the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Christian’s scholarship focuses on international law, international human rights law, citizenship and global mobility. He is the author of several publications on citizenship including the monograph ‘Denationalisation and Its Discontents’ (2022) which examines the legal, moral, and political implications posed by the Western revival of citizenship revocation in the 21st century as well as his recent article’ ‘The Dichotomy within Denationalisation: Perpetuating or Emancipating from its Discriminatory Past’ (Special Issue of International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, edited by Cathrine Costello, Cathrine Briddick and Shreya Atrey, 2022).

During his time at EUI (2023-2025), Christian will be working on his new research project Citizenship, Legal Infrastructures and Global Mobility, which examines how citizenship interacts with the legal infrastructures that govern how we, as humans, can move freely around the world.

Christian is a former Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and received his PhD in International Law from the University of Aarhus in 2021. He has served as an advisor to the Danish Parliament, human rights institutions, and NGO’s on issues related to citizenship legislation and in litigation cases on citizenship revocation, statelessness and the repatriation of foreign fighters in Syria.

Fields of expertise

• Global citizenship