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Peter
Szigeti
Collegium Researcher, Laws
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS)
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
"Development of an ecologically sustainable system of private law"

Areas of expertise

Property law
public international law
migration law
citizenship law
jurisdiction.

Biography

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.

Research

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.