Research Interests

Christian Prener is Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Southern Denmark and a current Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellow at the Global Citizenship research group, at the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Christian’s scholarship focuses on international law, international human rights law, citizenship and global mobility. He is the author of several publications on citizenship including the monograph ‘Denationalisation and Its Discontents’ (2022)and articles ‘Citizenship as Mobility Capital’ Fortcoming in German Law Review, Special Issue: ‘Legal Infrastructures and Beyond’, (Eds. Byne Hamilton, Gammeltoft-Hansen, Stappert, 2024);'The Dichotomy within Denationalisation: Perpetuating or Emancipating from its Discriminatory Past' (Special Issue of International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, edited by Cathrine Costello, Cathrine Briddick and Shreya Atrey, 2022); Citizenship Revocation and the Question of Proportionate Consequences: Latest Judgement from the Danish Supreme Court and the limits of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights’, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2023.

During his time at EUI (2023-2025), Christian will be working on his research project Citizenship, Legal Infrastructures and Global Mobility, which examines how citizenship interacts with the legal infrastructures that govern how we, as humans, can move freely around the world.

Christian is a former Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and received his PhD in International Law from the University of Aarhus in 2021. He has served as an advisor to the Danish Parliament, human rights institutions, and NGO’s on issues related to citizenship legislation and in litigation cases on citizenship revocation, statelessness and the repatriation of foreign fighters in Syria.

Christian’s doctoral research tackles the doctrinal, constitutional- and moral theoretical implications of citizenship revocation laws in Western societies. A revised book version of this research project will be published in mid 2022.  (Denationalisation and its Discontents, Brill 2022) 

Christian has served as an advisor to the Danish Parliament, NGO’s and human rights-lawyers on the human rights-implications of revoking of citizenship from foreign fighters In Syria and is a frequent contributor to Danish media.

Christian is a current research fellow with JUST SOCIETY; a research project aiming to strenghten the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 16 on Peace, Justice and Strong institutions. 

Previously, Christian has been a Visiting Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) 

Christian holds a Master degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen, a Ph.D from the University of Aarhus, Denmark and received the Danish Ministry of Justice’s Best Thesis Award for his Master Thesis on the ‘Legal Perspectives on Foreign Fighters’.

Christian’s doctoral research tackles from a human rights-based perspective the doctrinal,  constitutional- and moral theoretical implications of citizenship revocation laws in Western societies. A revised book version of this research project will be published in mid 2022.  (The Rise of Denationalisation, Brill 2022) 

Christian has served as an advisor to the Danish Parliament, NGO’s and human rights-lawyers on the human rights-implications of revoking of citizenship from foreign fighters In Syria and is a frequent contributor to Danish media.

Christian’s current research focuses on the legal and ethical implications of AI in particular the challenges and opportunities that arise in regard to mitigating discriminatory decision-making and the possibilities that emerging tech presents to the future of citizenship.  

Christian is a current research fellow with JUST SOCIETY; a research project aiming to strenghten the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 16 on Peace, Justice and Strong institutions. 

Previously, Christian has been a Visiting Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) 

Outside his academic work, Christian is a co-founder of the non-profit think tank ‘Copenhagen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (CIAI) dedicated to developing educational programmes that can teach young citizens across the world about the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies (e.g. future of work, automation, privacy and ethics of AI)

Christian holds a Master degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen, a Ph.D from the University of Aarhus, Denmark and received the Danish Ministry of Justice’s Best Thesis Award for his Master Thesis on the ‘Legal Perspectives on Foreign Fighters’.