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Master’s Thesis
From Sovereignty to Belonging: Comparative Human Rights Approaches to Naturalization for Long-Term Residents in the Inter-American and European Systems (LL.M., Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, 2025).
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Konrad Lachmayer.
Article version in preparation. Available upon request.
Latest Article
Andrew Scott Mansfield, “The Constitutional Interpretation of Uruguayan Nationality According to the Uruguayan Constitutional Methodology,” 29 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 443 (2023).
Andrew Scott Mansfield, “La Interpretación Constitucional De La Nacionalidad Uruguaya De Acuerdo Con La Metodologia Constitucional Uruguaya,” 29 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 551 (2023)
This article examines Uruguay’s contemporary constitutional interpretation of nationality as applied to naturalized citizens, focusing on the administrative practice of issuing passports that identify legal citizens as non-nationals. It analyzes the constitutional reasoning adopted by Uruguayan authorities since 2018, tracing its reliance on secondary interpretations attributed to Justino Jiménez de Aréchaga, and evaluates this position through Uruguay’s own logical-systematic-teleological method of constitutional interpretation.
The article argues that the prevailing interpretation misreads Article 81 of the Constitution and departs from both Uruguay’s constitutional methodology and its historical practice. By situating domestic constitutional interpretation within broader comparative and international legal frameworks, the analysis demonstrates how Uruguay’s current approach produces unequal legal status, undermines legal certainty, and conflicts with its international human rights obligations. The article concludes by identifying doctrinally coherent interpretative pathways through which Uruguay could reconcile constitutional law, administrative practice, and international commitments.
Additional Publications
Thomas Nadelhoffer, Stephanos Bibas, Scott Grafton, Kent A. Kiehl, Andrew Mansfield, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Michael Gazzaniga, “Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law: Setting the Stage,” Neuroethics, 2012. Pages 67-99.
Andrew S. Mansfield, “Religious Arguments and the United States Supreme Court: A Review of Amicus Curiae Briefs Files by Religious Organizations," Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics, Spring 2009. Pages 343-394.
Andrew S. Mansfield, “E-Commerce and Alternative Dispute Resolution,” Korea Private International Law Journal, 2000. Pages 583-598.
Jennifer Angelini and Andrew Mansfield, “A Call for U.S. Ratification of the Protocol on Antarctic Environmental Protection,” Ecology Law Quarterly, 1994. Pages 163-241.
Jennifer Angelini, Andrew Mansfield, Edward Adams, “Implementation of the protocol on environmental protection to the Antarctic Treaty into United States law and practice,” Berkeley, Calif.: University of California School of Law, 1993.