The Universal Declaration of Human Rights included – in Article 15 – the right to a nationality. Asserting this right paved the way to agreements such as the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954. Major protagonists in the development of this and other such human rights instruments were Jewish lawyers and their NGOs. As Jews they had experienced statelessness and the loss of a homeland through migration themselves. As lawyers they had been experts in interwar minority rights discussions and thus brought with them this legal expertise to their new homelands. This article focuses on their production of legal knowledge based on their expertise and experience.
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