Dimitry Kochenov
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Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov is a Soviet-born Dutch legal scholar, currently a professor of legal studies at the
Central European University Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The univ ...
. He is known as a critic of the concept of
citizenship Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term ''citizenship'' to refer to nationalit ...
.


Biography

Kochenov was born in Gorky,
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on April 24, 1979. He attended Dobrolyubov State Linguistic University and Lobachevsky State University, both in Nizhny Novgorod, from 1996 to 2001 and graduated with a joint BA/ MA in French History and an LL.B. He received an LL.M. from the Central European University in 2002 and a Ph.D. from the
University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...
in 2007. He worked as a professor at the University of Groningen from 2006 to 2019 before returning to CEU. His 2019 book ''Citizenship,'' published by
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, was well-received and translated into several languages. Kochenov has criticized the notion of citizenship as an unjustifiable form of apartheid, tracing its origins to racism, sexism, and slavery, and advocated its complete abolition. Together with Chrisian Kälin he published ''Quality of Nationality Index'' showcasing how unequal citizenships of the world are, contributing to global inequalities. He engaged in the study of invesment migration programmes, publishing co-edited volumes with Cambridge and Bloomsbury and criticized attempts of the European Commission to restrict investment migration. Kochenov has advised governments, including the Dutch and the Maltese and international institutions on legal matters, particularly those pertaining to citizenship and matters of constitutional law. He coined the notion of "EU Lawlessness Law" with Sarah Ganty to describe the deployment of supranational law in the service of impunity and mass violations of human rights. Following a 2019 prime-time questioning by Dutch news program
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of investment-based naturalisations, which they called "passport trade",
University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...
conducted an investigation into Kochenov's paid consulting activities related to citizenship by investment or investment naturalisation, including his role with
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and advising the Maltese Government on the legal amendments to introduce citizenship by investment. In 2020, a
University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...
investigation concluded that he was not involved in the alleged ‘Maltese passport trade’, nevertheless giving Kochenov a warning as he failed to comply with the approval procedure for additional activities set out in the applicable university regulations. Kochenov has received a mixture of criticism and support from academic colleagues on the matter of academic integrity. After the investigation, Kochenov left Groningen for Oxford, where he co-taught a course on Citizenship by Investment, and then CEU.


See also

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Henley Passport Index The Henley Passport Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom allowed by those countries' ordinary passports for their citizens. It was launched in 2005 as Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index and was updated ...
* Quality of Nationality Index


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kochenov, Dimitry Academic staff of the University of Groningen Scholars of citizenship Year of birth missing (living people) Living people