Newton, MA--A conference entitled "Citizenship-in-Question" will take place at Boston College Law School on Thursday April 19, at 5:30 pm in East Wing room 120.

BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau will give the opening remarks at the conference, where an international panel of scholars in legal and politcal thought on citizenship claims will discuss the issue of citizenship and its interpretation across the globe.  Two people who have navigated the bureaucracy claims will also present on their experiences.

BC Law Professor Dan Kanstroom is an associate director for the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice, a co-sponsor of the conference along with the Institute for the Liberal Arts, BC Law School, the University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

For more information, please contact Dan Kanstroom at kanstroo@bc.edu, or the Center for Human Rights at 617-552-1968.