GLOBALCIT The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), hosted by the European University Institute, has prepared reports on nationality law in most countries in the world, maintains a dataset enabling comparison of provisions across different nationality laws, and also has a database of court judgments relating to nationality law. https://globalcit.eu/ The European Network on Statelessness The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) has developed a Statelessness Case Law Database as a free online resource containing national and regional case law covering Europe, as well as international jurisprudence addressing statelessness. The database covers jurisprudence from any jurisdiction in Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and UN human rights treaty bodies. The database is searchable by country, legal instruments, key aspects and by keywords, and includes case summaries. https://caselaw.statelessness.eu/ ENS has also worked with its partners to compile a Statelessness Index for 30 European states. The index is a comparative tool that assesses European countries’ law, policy, and practice on the protection of stateless people and the prevention and reduction of statelessness, against international norms and good practice. https://index.statelessness.eu/ In addition, the European Network on Statelessness and the AIRE Centre published a two-volume Litigation Toolkit on Statelessness for Legal Practitioners published by the European Network on Statelessness and the AIRE Centre in 2022, updated in 2024.100 Citizenship Rights Africa Initiative The Citizenship Rights Africa website contains a wealth of information on nationality, statelessness and identity documents from around the African continent, including the relevant African standards and a collection of judgments in national and regional courts, searchable by country, theme, date, and type of document. https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/advanced-search/ Other resources are set out in u section 8. National law The relevant law at national level for the determination of a person’s right to nationality is likely to include, in addition to relevant constitutional provisions, the primary and secondary legislation (and jurisprudence interpreting these laws) governing: • Nationality/citizenship; • Children’s rights; • Birth registration and civil registration generally, including the laws governing marriage, divorce, adoption, and legal recognition of parentage (filiation); • Identity documents, including national ID cards and passports; • Immigration and border control; • Voter registration and elections; • Functional registration systems important in the national context, such as drivers’ licenses, health care and social security documents, tax records, or local authority confirmation of residence and/or identity; • Religious and customary certification of identity (including baptismal records). An analysis of the application of the nationality code to the particular person’s circumstances of place and date of birth and parentage, according to their own account, is obviously the starting point. But very often in these cases some or all of the relevant facts are contested: Is it possible to prove that the person was born in a particular place? Is the legal connection of the child to the parent holding nationality established? Does the parent have documents recognising nationality? Did the birth take place at a date when the relevant provisions of the law were in force? Or, for those not born in the country, when did the person (or his or her parent) enter the country and with what status? 100 Litigation Toolkit on Statelessness for Legal Practitioners; Volume 1: Impact Litigation and Judicial Mechanisms to Effect Change; Volume 2: Jurisprudence, European Network on Statelessness and AIRE Centre, October 2022, updated June 2024, https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/litigation-toolkit-statelessness-legal-practitioners. 40 U N H C R | L I T I G AT I N G T H E R I G H T T O A N AT I O N A L I T Y: A G U I D E F O R P R AC T I T I O N E R S