Legal Expertise and Biographical Experience

Statelessness, Migrants, and the Shaping of New Legal Knowledge in the Postwar World

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ID11982056
AuthorsMiriam Rürup (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden Beim Schlump 83 20144 Hamburg Deutschland, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume43
Issue3
Pages438-465
Publication date2017-09-12
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeschichte und Gesellschaft (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0340-613X • E-ISSN: 2196-9000
PublisherVandenhoeck & Ruprecht (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.13109/gege.2017.43.3.438
OpenAlexW2766817961
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

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

Convention · Declaration · Homeland · Human rights · Immigration · Judaism · Jurisprudence · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stateless protocol · Statelessness · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law

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