VALIDITY OF THE 1918 UNIFICATION OF MONTENEGRO AND SERBIA - AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY APPROACH
Abstract
In this paper, the author will critically reexamine the 1918 unification of Montenegro and Serbia, challenging the views which claim that it had no legal basis in the then-valid (international) legal order. The author disregards these claims made by the critics of the unification by exposing their methodological and logical inconsistency. In doing so, by citing original documents the author attempts to actually recreate the adjudicating process by which this question had been solved within the realm of the international law and, in doing so, he brings the reader’s attention to certain theoretically interesting aspects of the international law, such as its overall nature, its adjudicating process and its adjudicating bodies (institutions), which are of utmost theoretical importance.
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