ABSTRACT
The Slovenian jurist Leonidas Pitamic was a member of Hans Kelsen’s Viennese School of Legal Theory until 1918. This academic circle gave a lot of thought to the phenomenon of revolution and its legal significance, especially in the years before and after World War I. On 15 April 1920, Pitamic, who was then the first dean of the Law Faculty of the new University of Ljubljana, held his Opening Lecture “Pravo in revolucija/Law and Revolution”. Here he summarised the findings of Kelsen’s Circle, which contributed significantly to interpreting the disintegration of the monarchy and the emergence of new states on its soil in legal terms.
