Edinburgh Law School alumna’s essay included in a working paper published by the Global Citizenship Observatory
Mon 9 September 2024
Edinburgh Law School alumna Madeleine Chambers was one of the highest-scoring essays in the Global Citizenship Observatory’s (GLOBALCIT) 2024 Rainer Bauböck essay competition. As a result, her essay was one of the three essays collected to form the working paper ‘Climate change and the future of citizenship: three essays’.
GLOBALCIT is a global research network bases at the European University Institute that is committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world. Each year, they host the Rainer Bauböck essay competition; this year’s prize committee asked participants to answer the question ‘How will climate change impact on citizenship? How should citizenship adapt to climate change?’ Madeleine discussed the citizenship of Pacific Island nations submerged by rising sea levels and she proposed a hybrid, dual citizenship model, combining a jus sanguinis e-citizenship of their home state and citizenship of their host state.
About being included in this paper, Madeleine said: “My contribution to the working paper can be directly traced back to taking Citizenship Law in my final year at Edinburgh in 2021/22. Jo [Shaw] delivered such an excellently curated and thoughtful course that stuck with me as I have continued with my studies and into the workplace. I was so grateful to have been picked as a contributor to the paper!”
Madeleine Chambers graduated from Edinburgh Law School in 2022 with an LLB in Law. Currently, she is a trainee solicitor at Burges Salmon LLP.
Read the working paper ‘Climate change and the future of citizenship: three essays’