Full text of the paper:
Proceedings of the Faculty of Law, Novi Sad
2024, vol. LVIII, no. 3, p. 719-735
working language: Serbian
Review paper
udk:340.134(495.631)”1924/2024”
doi:10.5937/zrpfns58-52575
Author:
Aleksandar Vasiljević
Institute for European Studies, Belgrade
aco.vasiljevic96@gmail.com
ORCID ID: 0009-0003-9167-6224
Summary:
The Draft Constitutive Charter of Mount Athos (1924) is a legal act that will celebrate its centenary in 2024. In the research, the author applies a comparative approach to the legal system of Mount Athos until the 10th century and its effect on the current source of law. The forms of the Athos system, based on the Chair of Elders, the Typikon of Athanasius and Tzimiskes, managed to survive in fragments despite military occupations, political and other circumstances. The regulation of legal subjectivity over the Athos Peninsula is a crucial circumstance and the most important contribution to the emergence of the subject source of law. The author introduces us to a wide range of constitutional and legal solutions prescribed by the Constitutive Charter, as well as the Decree by which the Greek state officially confirmed and presented the most significant Athos legal act. The author’s goal is to use research to encourage the professional community to celebrate the double anniversary of 2026: one hundred years since the adoption and one hundred years of the implementation of the Constitutional Charter.
Keywords:
Mount Athos, Draft Constitutive Charter, Monastic Community, legal subjectivity.