About Patrick Weil

Patrick Weil is a senior research fellow at the French National Research Center at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School. Professor Weil's work focuses on comparative citizenship, immigration, and church-state law and policy. His most recent books are Le sens de la République, (with Nicolas Truong, Paris Gallimard-Folio, 2016) and The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic (Pennsylvania, 2013). Among his other recent publications are "Citizenship, Passports, and the Legal Identity of Americans: Edward Snowden and Others Have a Case in the Courts,'' Yale Law Journal Forum 123 (2014); ''Headscarf versus Burqa: Two French Bans with Different Meanings,'' in Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival, ed. Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld (Oxford, 2014); and ''From Conditional to Secured and Sovereign: The New Strategic Link Between the Citizen and the Nation-State in a Globalized World,'' International Journal of Constitutional Law (2011).