The following is a guest post by Alexandros X.M. Ntovas, Doctoral Grantee in Public International Law, University of Southampton School of Law. In reading the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice regarding the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo,[1] one is compelled to reach the oxymoron conclusion that the latter since the 17th of February 2008, being the date of declaration, enjoys – at least theoretically – two separate, yet concurrent, legal orders. In other words, two distinctive, in terms of legitimacy source, legal orders referring to the same territory at the same time. The first legal…