Péter Szigeti, SJD, LL.M., dr. iur.

Area of Study / Keywords

International Law Property Law Immigration Law Environmental Law Jurisprudence Law & Geograpy

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About

Dr. Péter Szigeti received his SJD from Harvard Law School in 2015, and started teaching at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alberta in September 2018. He has held postdoctoral positions at New York University, McGill University and the European University Institute; and he also holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2008), a Master 2 recherche from Université Paris I (2006), and a bachelor’s degree in Hungarian law from ELTE University, Budapest (2005). He has been invited as a visiting professor to the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna, Austria (in May-June 2023) and as part of the Louvain Global College of Law program at UCLouvain, in Belgium (in March 2024). Currently, he is on leave from the University of Alberta, and working as a Collegium Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, at the University of Turku, in Finland (2024-2027).

Professor Szigeti teaches property law, immigration law and jurisprudence. His varied research interests include the role of geographical information in law; the interactions between property law and environmental protection; jurisdiction, sovereignty and territoriality in international law; comparative immigration law; citizenship/nationality law and statelessness; the history of migration law; and international legal history.

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Research

• Legal Theory
• Immigration Law
• Public International Law
• International Legal History
• Property
• Environmental Law
• Law & Geography

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Teaching

• LAW440 Property Law (1L course, 60 students);
• LAW588B Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Law (Upper-year course, 40 students);
• LAW486 Jurisprudence: Methods of Interpretation (Upper-year seminar, 11 students);
• LAW599 Digital Law (Upper-year seminar, 22 students);
• LAW589 Moot Court Coaching (Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition).
• LAW526 Independent Research Paper supervision (supervised students writing about international law (2019) and law & technology (2022)).

Péter D. Szigeti

Harvard International Law Journal. 2025 March; 66 (1):229-299

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Péter D. Szigeti

Political Science Quarterly. 2025 January; 140 (N/A ):N/A (advance access) 10.1093/psquar/qqae124

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Péter D. Szigeti

McGill Law Journal. 2024 February; 68 (1):1-46

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Szigeti, Péter D.

International Journal of Constitutional Law . 2021 November; 19 (5):1632-1663 10.1093/icon/moab102

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Szigeti, Péter D.

Environmental Law. 2021 April; 51 (1):41-87

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Szigeti, Péter D.

The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (Daniel S. Margolies, Umut Özsu, Maïa Pal, Ntina Tzouvala eds.). 2019 March;

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Szigeti, Péter D.

Texas International Law Journal. 2017 September; 52 (3):369-399

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Szigeti, Péter D.

Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-Foundational Cosmopolitanism (Tamara Caraus & Elena Paris eds.). 2016 February;

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Szigeti, Péter D.

Journal of Transnational Law & Policy. 2010 March; 19 (2):311-355

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