Andrew Scott Mansfield

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ABOUT ANDREW SCOTT MANSFIELD

I am an international lawyer and researcher working at the intersection of nationality, citizenship, and passport law, with a focus on how legal identity is constructed and contested in practice. My work examines how states use nationality and documentation regimes as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, shaping belonging and global mobility for long-term residents and naturalized citizens. I am currently based in Vienna, where I work in public international law at Sigmund Freud Private University, contributing to teaching, research, and academic coordination within the LL.M. programme. My research focuses on comparative approaches to nationality in the Inter-American and European systems, particularly the limits of state discretion and the role of human rights law in defining membership. Alongside my academic work, I am actively engaged in legal and policy questions concerning nationality and documentation, including research and advocacy on the treatment of naturalized citizens and the design and international recognition of passports. I hold an LL.M. in Public International Law from Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna. My thesis, From Sovereignty to Belonging: Comparative Human Rights Approaches to Naturalization for Long-Term Residents in the Inter-American and European Systems (2025), analyzes the divergence between regional approaches to nationality rights and examines the evolving relationship between sovereignty and human dignity. My earlier training includes an LL.M. in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from American University Washington College of Law, a postgraduate degree in Administrative and Economic Public Law from the University of Montevideo, a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. My interdisciplinary work has included research on the Antarctic Treaty System and on the role of religious actors in constitutional litigation before the United States Supreme Court. I have over 25 years of legal practice experience, primarily in federal litigation, and previously served as Executive Director of the Law and Neuroscience Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which was funded by the MacArthur Foundation. After relocating to Uruguay in 2019, I became closely involved in research and advocacy concerning nationality, legal citizenship, and equal treatment under the law. From 2022 to 2024, I served on the Fulbright Commission in Uruguay.