I’m a Research Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and a visiting scholar in law at Yale Law School.
In my work I have often explored the issues of citizenship and immigration laws and policies.
Publications
Hansen, R., & Weil, P. (Eds.). (2002). Dual Nationality, Social Rights and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe: The Reinvention of Citizenship. Berghahn Books.
Weil, P. (2008). How to be French? Nationality in the Making since 1789. Duke University Press.
Weil, P. (2013). The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hansen, R., & Weil, P. (Eds.). (2001). Towards a European Nationality: Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality Law in the EU. Palgrave Macmillan.
Martin, S. F., Martin, P. L., & Weil, P. (2006). Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation. Lexington Books.
Fahrmeir, A., Faron, O., & Weil, P. (Eds.). (2003). Migration Control in the North-Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period. Berghahn Books.
Le Sens de la République
The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789
Qu'est-ce qu'un Français? Histoire de la nationalité française de la Révolution à nos jours