Law Library: News & Events: Join us this Thursday, April 23, for "Nationality, Borders, and Stability: A Historical Legal Analysis of Citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo" a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar at 2PM EDT
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You are subscribed to Law Library: News & Events from the Library of Congress. Join foreign law specialists Louis Gilbert tomorrow, April 23, at 2:00 p.m. EDT for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar for a historical legal analysis of citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by the foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of Congress. Citizenship law in the Democratic Republic of Congo lies at the intersection of borders, identity, and conflict. In this presentation, foreign law specialist Louis Gilbert will trace the legal construction of Congolese nationality from the colonial period to the present, with particular attention to the North Kivu region, and examines how successive governments have used citizenship law to regulate territory, population, and political authority. He will explore how nationality law continues to function as a structural driver of conflict in eastern Congo and how citizenship is not merely a status but a legal instrument with far-reaching security implications. Register here.
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