Because of this duality, overcoming Schrödinger's Citizenship cannot happen at the level of norms. We must identify the gaps in the law created by the duality, whether they are created by retroactivity, the interpretive methods used by foreign courts, or just administrative foot-dragging.

Even deeper, there is a fundamental contradiction about what citizenship really *is*. Is it just another, changeable and (re)interpretable legal status that is created by the state? Or is it part of a person's self and identity, essentially a fact of nature? Ultimately, it is both.

I argue that Schrödinger's Citizenship is basically unavoidable in a world where public international law, private international law and domestic laws all set rather contradictory norms about what citizenship is and who has the right to grant it and adjudicate it.

As great scholars such as @bronwenmanby.bsky.social, Neha Jain and @jcyliew.bsky.social have argued, "Schrödinger's Citizenship" (also called zombie citizenship, ghost citizenship, citizenship overreach, sticky citizenship, etc.) is a major driver in the creation of statelessness globally.

What is "Schrödinger's Citizenship"? It's the phenomenon where State A argues that a person is in fact the citizen of State B , while State B simultaneously argues that the same person is in fact a citizen of State A. In the end, both states deny protections to the person in question.

It seems to be on my phone, but it also seems to work fine on my laptop 🤷‍♂️

...and "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" by @corneliawoll.bsky.social. It was a great experience to read the books, think about them and write the review -- I hope you will enjoy them, too!

The books that I have reviewed are "Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy" by @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social; "Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance" by @phverdier.bsky.social...