Peter Szigeti
SJD (Harv. '15), LL.M. (Harv. '08), Master 2 (Paris-1 '06), dr. iur. (ELTE '05). Collegium Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and University of Turku, Faculty of Law / Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law
Turku institute for advanced Studies peter.szigeti@utu.fi : 3001 |
Property law; public international law; migration law; citizenship law; jurisdiction.
"Development of an ecologically sustainable system of private law"
Before having been selected as a Collegium Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (between 2024-2027), I held an Assistant Professor position at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alberta, since 2018. I received an SJD (2015) and an LL.M. (2008) from Harvard Law School, a Master 2 recherche from Université Paris-1 (2006), and a bachelor’s degree in Hungarian law from ELTE University, Budapest (2005). I have held postdoctoral positions at New York University (2017-2018), McGill University (Montreal, 2016-2017) and the European University Institute (Florence, 2015-2016); and I have also been invited to guest-teach at the University of Vienna (2023) and UCLouvain (2024). I have taught Property; Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Law; Jurisprudence; Digital Law; and I have coached the University of Alberta Jessup international law moot court team for five years.
I have three principal research fields, which are nevertheless united by a focus on the role of spaciality, territory and geography. The three fields are the interactions between property law and environmental protection; jurisdiction, sovereignty and territoriality in international law; and comparative immigration and citizenship law. At the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, I am principally working on a book, on developing an environmentally sustainable system of private law.
- Beyond Place: Network Effects Versus Jurisdiction and Sovereignty (2025)
- Political Science Quarterly
- The Dilemmas of Schrödinger's Citizenship (2025)
- Harvard International Law Journal
- No Country for Old Men: Restrictions on the Immigration of Elderly Family Members (2023)
- Mggill Law Journal
- A Sketch of Ecological Property: Toward a Law of Biogeochemical Cycles (2021) Szigeti, Peter D.
- Comparative law at the heart of immigration law: Criminal inadmissibility and conjugal immigration in Canada and the United States (2021)
- International Journal of Constitutional Law
- In the middle of nowhere: The futile quest to distinguish territoriality from extraterritoriality (2019) The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics Szigeti, Peter D.
- Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (2019) Szigeti, Peter D.
- The Illusion of Territorial Jurisdiction (2017) Szigeti, Peter D.
- The Kosmos of cosmopolitanism: Geography and grounding (2015) Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-Foundational Cosmopolitanism Szigeti, Peter D.
- Territorial Bias in International Law: Attribution in State and Corporate Responsiblity (2010) Szigeti, Peter D.