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Law without the state (also called transnational stateless law, stateless law, or private legal orderings) is law made primarily outside of the power of a state. Such law may be established in several ways: It may emerge in systems such as existed in feudal Europe prior to the emergence of the modern nation state with the treaty of Westphalia ...
Admonition of States to show sympathy to stateless seaman regularly engaged on ships of that State's flag. Article 12: Personal status (e.g. marital status) of a stateless person to be governed by the law of his/her domicile ahead of the law of his/her residence. Article 13: Rights to property to be no less than accorded to aliens generally ...
In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". [2] Some stateless people are also refugees . However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are stateless have never crossed an international border . [ 3 ]
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Nonetheless, the United States Department of State warns renunciants that, unless they already possess a foreign nationality or are assured of acquiring another nationality shortly after completing their renunciation, they would become stateless and without the protection of any government. [48] [49]
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The State Department warns that "severe hardship" could result to individuals making themselves stateless, that even those with permanent residence in their country "could encounter difficulties continuing to reside there without a nationality", and that a foreign country might deport stateless ex-U.S. citizens back to the United States.