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The International Legal Status of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta

Karol Karski · International Community Law Review 14(1), 19-32 · 2012

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Author
Karol Karski
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DOI 10.1163/187197312X617674
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2026-09-01

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DisputedLegal scholarship generally treats the Order of Malta as a subject of international law; Karski argues that it is a secondary rather than a sovereign subject, because as a Catholic religious order it is subordinate to the Pope.