The Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws was a
League of Nations
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convention adopted during the
League of Nations Codification Conference, 1930
The League of Nations Codification Conference was held in The Hague from 13 March to 12 April 1930, for the purpose of formulating accepted rules in international law to subjects that until then were not addressed thoroughly. The conference's main ...
in
The Hague
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. It was signed by many states, but ratified by only twenty three.
Article 1
The first article states that it is up to every state to set its own
nationality law
Nationality law is the law of a sovereign state, and of each of its jurisdictions, that defines the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired and how it may be lost. In international law, the legal means to acquire nationality and for ...
s; however, that that power is limited:
: It is for each State to determine under its own law who are its nationals. This law shall be recognised by other States in so far as it is consistent with international conventions, international custom, and the principles of law generally recognised with regard to nationality.
However, the Convention recognised that individual national laws without regarding the broader international scope could lead to
statelessness
In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are st ...
. Citing that acquisition and loss of nationality typically occurred by birth, minority, or marriage, the Convention made proposals to counter the rise of statelessness.
See also
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Master Nationality Rule
References
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League of Nations treaties
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