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Is World Citizenship a Legal Practicality?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

L. C. Green
L. C. Green*
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Honorary Professor of Law, University of Alberta
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 25 , 1988 , pp. 151 - 185
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1988

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Based on a lecture delivered in the University of Alberta University Professor lecture series at the Law Centre, Feb. 11, 1987.

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1 The Times (London), Jan. 2, 1986.

2 1968–70, nos. 3331–23, 3344/67 and 4448/70, summarized in Sohn and Buergenthal, International Protection of Human Rights 1059–90 (1973).

3 U.S. Dept. of Commerce Statement on Foreign Policy Export Controls, (1982) 21 Int’l Leg. Mat. 853.

4 See, e.g., Presidential Message to Congress on Trade with Hungary, the People’s Republic of China and Romania, June 3, 1983, 22 ibid., 685

5 [1955] I-CJ.4.

6 U.N. Gen. Ass. Res. 217 (III) A, 1948, Arts. 3, 14.

7 See, e.g., Convention on Reduction of Statelessness, 1961, 989 UNTS 175.

8 Convention re Status of Refugees, 1951, 189 UNTS 137.

9 See, e.g., U.N. Charter, Art. 2 (7).

10 See 1947 peace treaties with Bulgaria (41 UNTS 21), Art. 2; Finland (48 ibid., 203) Art. 6; Hungary (41 ibid., 135), Art. 2; Roumania (42 ibid., 3), Art. 3. See also, Interpretation of Peace Treaties, [1950] I.C.J. Rep. 65; Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 (999 UNTS 971), Art. 27.

11 See, however, Nationality Decrees in Tunis and Morocco (1923) P.C.I.J., Ser. B/4 (1 Hudson, , World Court Reports 145)Google Scholar; Nottebohm, loc. cit. supra note 5.

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21 Phillipson, op. cit. supra note 17, at 250–53.

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46 Ibid., Ch. VIII (45), Bk. II, Ch. I (90).

47 Elementorum Jurisprudentiae Universalis, 1672, Bk. II, Obs. IV, paras. 5–6 (Carnegie tr., 242–43 (1931))» (italics added).

48 See Macalister-Smith, , International Humanitarian Assistance, esp. Ch. 6, 8 (1985)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also, Samuels, , “Organized Responses to Natural Disasters,” in Macdonald, et al., The International Law and Policy of Human Welfare 675, 680–84 (1978)Google Scholar; see also his “Humanitarian Relief in Man-Made Disasters,” 10 (1972) Canadian Yearbook of International Law 3.

49 Op. cit. supra note 47, Obs. V, paras. 21–22 (292–93).

50 Op. cit. supra note 45, Bk. II, Ch. XVI (140).

51 De Jure Naturae et Gentium, 1688, Bk. VIII, Ch. VI, para. 14 (Carnegie tr., 1307 (1934)).

52 Ibid., Bk. III, Ch. III, para. 5 (354–56), para. 11 (369).

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54 Ibid., Proposition II, Proof 5, c. Digest, I, 1, 3 (153) (italics added).

55 Ecclesiasticus 17, 12.

56 Op. cit. supra note 53, Proposition IV, Fifth Lawful Title (159).

57 De Indis Sive De Jure Belli, 1580, Proposition I, Proof 7 (Carnegie tr., 167 (1917)).

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62 Ibid., Bk. II, Ch. I, ss. 3–8 (114–16, italics added).

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66 Ibid., ss. 13, 14 (117).

67 Ibid., s. 16 (117–18, italics added).

68 Ibid., Ch. IV, ss. 53–56, 62 (130–31, 134).

69 The belief that some states, such as Libya under Qadhafi, sponsor or support terrorism forms the basis for such actions as the U.S. sanctions against Libya in 1986, and the call for other states to take similar steps, as was done by Canada and the European Community, (1986) 25 Int’l Leg. Mat. 173–221.

70 See, e.g., G.A. Res. 2160 (XXI), 1966, recognizing “that peoples subjected to colonial oppression are entitled to seek and receive all support in their struggle. …” (italics added).

71 The Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, 1973 (1015 UNTS 244) condemns this as “a crime against humanity” (Art. 1 ).

72 The U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religious Belief, G.A. Res. 36/56, 1981, does not even go this far; see, however, supra note 43.

73 Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum, 1764, Prologomena, s. 13, Ch. II, ss. 161–73 (Carnegie tr., 14,86–91) (1934)).

74 Ibid., s. 319n. (163).

75 Ibid., ss. 328, 330 (167, 169).

76 Ibid., ss. 344–45 (176–77).

77 Ibid., s. 330 (169).

78 Ibid., s. 348 (178–79).

79 Op. cit. supra note 61, Bk. I, Ch. XIX, s. 229 (92, italics added).

80 Ibid., Bk. II, Ch. VIII, s. 104, Bk. I, Ch. XIX, ss. 226, 229–31 (145, 91, 92, italics added).

81 Despite the pledges re reunification of families in the Helsinki Final Act ((1975) ’4 Int’l Leg. Mat. 1292, 1313–14), the Soviet Union virtually refuses to allow its citizens to leave, though other states are willing to receive them.

82 Loc. cit. supra note 6, Art. 14.

83 Op. cit., s. 231 (92).

84 Op. cit. supra note 34, Bk. II, Ch. XVII (230, italics added).

85 Op. cit. supra note 36, Bk. II, Ch. II, ss. 6–7, Ch. XXI, s. 2.5 (201, 530, italics added).

86 Op. cit. supra note 51, Bk. II, Ch. III, ss. 10, 9 (366, 365).

87 This seems to be the approach adopted by Canadian provinces to emigrants from Hong Kong.

88 This is a forerunner of the policy of some countries towards Hong Kong residents who have left that territory in view of its forthcoming reversion to Chinese sovereignty.

89 Cf. Lord Denning, supra note 89.

90 See infra, text to notes 120–26.

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116 1966, 999 UNTS 171.

117 E.g., France, Re Jean Borcaut, 13 Les Causes Célèbres 492 (1747) ; England, Smith v. Brown (1705), 20 Howell’s St. Tr. 666, Somersett’s case (1772), 20 ibid., 1.

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125 Immigration and Nationality Act, s. 20(a) (7), Dept. of State, Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law 1973, 103; see also, ibid., 1977, 139–40.

126 Art. 16 (2), U.N. Yearbook on Human Rights 1949, 80.

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134 See, e.g., International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966, Art. 2 (1), 999 UNTS 171.

135 European, 1950 (813 UNTS 222) ; American, 1969 (9 I.L.M. 673) ; African, 1981 (21 ibid., 58).

136 1957 298 UNTS 11, as amended.

137 See text to notes 33–39 supra.

138 The Times (London) Nov. 30, 1985.

139 Ibid., Jan. 2, 1986.

140 Ibid., Jan. 27, 1987.

141 Ibid., re U.K. attitude to Sri Lankans and Iranians.

142 Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations (Bernadotte), [1949] I.C.J. Rep. 4.

143 See, e.g., Convention on Certain Questions on Conflict of Nationality Laws, and Protocol re Military Obligations in Certain Cases of Double Nationality ( 1930) 179 LNTS 89, 178 ibid., 227; see also Bar-Yaacov, , Dual Nationality, Ch. 5, 10 (1961).Google Scholar