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Nationality and Statelessness Under International Law. Edited by Alice Edwards and Laura van Waas. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii, 306. Index. $110.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Peter J. Spiro
Peter J. Spiro*
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Temple University Beasley School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 110 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 148 - 152
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References

1 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, Art. 1, Sept. 28, 1954, 360 UNTS 130 [hereinafter 1954 Convention].

2 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 15, GA Res. 217A (III), UN GAOR, 3d Sess., Resolutions, at 71, UN Doc. A/810 (1948).

3 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Aug. 30, 1961, 989 UNTS 175 [hereinafter 1961 Convention].

4 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art. 24, Dec. 16, 1966, 999 UNTS 171.

5 United Nations, A Study of Statelessness (Aug. 1949), available at http://www.unhcr.org/3ae68c2d0.pdf.

6 See Hugo Massey, UNHCR, UNHCR and De Facto Statelessness, at 8–9, Doc. No. LPPR/2010/01 (Apr. 2010), available at http://www.unhcr.org/4bc2ddeb9.pdf.

7 1954 Convention, supra note 1, Art. 33.

8 Hague Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws, Art. 1, Apr. 12, 1930, 179 LNTS 89.

9 GA Res. 49/169 (Feb. 24, 1995).

10 UNHCR, Conclusion on Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons, No. 106 (LVII)—2006 (Oct. 6, 2006), available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/453497302.html.

11 UNHCR, State Action on Statelessness (Dec. 2011), at http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4ff2bdff6.html.

12 See Patrícia Jerónimo, EUDO Citizenship Observatory, Report on Citizenship Law: Brazil 18 (Jan. 2016), available at http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/38885/EUDO_Cit_CR_2016_01.pdf?sequence=1.

13 European Convention on Nationality, Art. 6, Nov. 6, 1997, ETS No. 166, 37 ILM 44 (1998).

14 Genovese v. Malta, App. No. 53124/09, (Eur. Ct. H.R. Oct. 11, 2011) (ECLI:CE:ECHR:2011: 1011JUD005312409).

15 Council of Europe, The Nationality of Children, Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)13 (Dec. 9, 2009), available at http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/cdcj/CDCJ%20Recommendations/CMRec(2009)13E_NationaliteDesEnfants.pdf.

16 Organization of American States, Convention on the Nationality of Women, Art. 1, Dec. 26, 1933, OASTS No. 4, 49 Stat. 2957, 2960 (1936).

17 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Art. 9, opened for signature Mar. 1, 1980, 1249 UNTS 13 (entered into force Sept. 3, 1981).

18 European Council, Venice Declaration on the Middle East (June 13, 1980), available at http://eeas.europa.eu/mepp/docs/venice_declaration_1980_en.pdf.

19 International Law Commission, Draft Articles on Nationality of Natural Persons in Relation to the Succession of States, UN Doc. A/54/10, at 20, 23 (Apr. 3, 1999).

20 1961 Convention, supra note 3, Art. 8, para. 1.

21 Id., Art. 8, para. 2(b).

22 Id., Art. 8, para. 3(a)(ii).

23 See Spiro, Peter J., A New International Law of Citizenship, 105 AJIL 694, 709–10 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

24 Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 230 (Harcourt, Inc. rev. ed. 1968) (1951) (noting that “human rights were protected and enforced only as national rights”).