This article studies the legal issues that arise when terrorists are deprived of their
citizenship. Although the rules governing the loss of nationality are among the last bulwarks
of states' sovereign discretion, this article shows that international law, Convention rights
and even EU law place significant constraints on the exercise of this discretion. It also
advances a series of recommendations that could help states minimize the risk of their
terrorist denationalization laws being found to be in breach of those higher legal standards …