Citizenship in a Global Era Conference

September 23, 2014 Centro di Studi Americani

Via Michelangelo Caetani. 32

Rome, Italy

Presented By:

Federal Bar Association, Immigration & International Law Sections and the Chicago Chapter

John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University of Chicago Arthur

Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance of Stanford University

Registration Details

Early Registration $275 by August 31

Standard Registration $325 after September 1

Conference registration includes a reception at the Hotel Ponte Sisto on Tuesday evening.

Guests are $25.

Optional Monday Dinner at Ristorante Galeassi $75 per person

Tuesday Reception at the Hotel Ponte Sisto $25 per guest

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Conference Program

Welcome and Introductions 8:30 – 9:00

The Ukraine: Annexation or Self-Determination? 9:00 – 10:15

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 10:15 – 11:30

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 11:45 – 1:15

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 2:00 – 3:45

“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 4:00 – 5:30

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.

September 23, 2014

Activities

2013 attendees wind

down after the

conference at an

antipasto reception >

Ms. Kyenge was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1964 and

immigrated to Italy in 1983. In 2002 she founded the Association for

Intercultural DAWA (“dawa” is a Kiswahili word meaning “medicine”), to

promote mutual understanding of different cultures and develop processes

of integration and cooperation between Italy and Africa. She became Italy’s

first black cabinet minister when she was appointed Minister of Integration

and supports the introduction of a Jus soli law to grant citizenship to

children of immigrants born on Italian soil. She has a degree in medicine

and surgery from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. She

lives in Castelfranco Emilia.

Optional Dinner at Ristorante Galeassi

$75 per person

Ristorante Galeassi

Piazza S. Maria in Trastevere, 3

Evening Reception at the Hotel Ponte

Sisto Garden

6:30 p.m.

Included in conference fee; guests are $25

The Citizenship in a Global Era conference sponsors

will be presenting our first Global Citizenship Award

to the Honorable Cécile Kyenge, recently elected to

the European Parliament and formerly Italy’s Minister

of Integration. The Award will be presented to Ms.

Kyenge at the reception.

Monday, September 22, 2014

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

2013 Global

Citizenship

Award

Recipient:

Honorable

Cécile Kyenge

Program Chairs & Faculty

Maria Celebi

Benner Law Office

Istanbul, Turkey

Dr. Jean-Philippe Chetcuti

Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates

Malta

Stephen Coutts

European University Institute

Florence, Italy

Laura Devine

Laura Devine Solitictos

London, England

H. Raymond Fasano

FBAImmigration Law Section Chair

New York, New York

Petro Kostiv

President, Ukrainian American Bar Association

Los Angeles, California

William Loris

Loyola Rome Center ProLaw LLM Program on Rule of Law

Rome, Italy

Kristin Major

VP and Deputy General Counsel, Global Functions at HP

Palo Alto, California

Marco Mazzeschi

Mazzeschi Corporate Immigration and Citizenship Law

Florence, Italy

Mary Meg McCarthy

Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice

Center (NIJC)

Chicago, Illinois

Margaret H. McCormick

Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan

Chicago, Illinois

Kate Nash

Professor, Goldsmiths University

London, England

Pietro Pennisi

JMU Law Firm

Florence, Italy

Ernest Constant Raskauskas

Washington D.C.

F. Daniel Siciliano

Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford

Law School

Stanford, California

Sally Silvers

Rome, Italy

Ana Garicano Solé

Sagardoy Abogados

Madrid, Spain

Margaret Stock

Cascadia Cross Border Law

Anchorage, Alaska

Margaret H. McCormick

* Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C.

* President, Federal Bar Association Chicago Chapter

* Secretary-Elect, Federal Bar Association Immigration Law Section

* Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago

F. Daniel Siciliano

* Professor of the Practice of Law, Associate Dean for Executive Education and Special Programs, Stanford

University

* Faculty Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock

Center for Corporate Governance

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