Juridical Singularity
- Mikey Miller
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Juridical Singularity describes a unique boundary-case scenario in international law in which the fundamental plurality of sovereign subjects collapses into a single legal person (Sovereign), leading to the termination of the international legal system as a normative order. It is an extreme-case doctrine situated at the foundations of international law and treaty law, state succession practice, and the law of international legal personality. In contrast to classical doctrines of universal succession, juridical singularity presupposes the creation of a new sovereign legal order according to the Clean Slate Principle, after all other subjects of international law have become extinct or have merged into a single Sovereign. As a result, the international legal system loses its structural requirements and no longer functions as an independent normative framework.
Juridical Singularity - The End of the International System
ALL states in the world + the UN + all UN organizations + NATO + all other international organizations founded by states, have been sold under international law ...to a single person (Sovereign), ...with the complete transfer of all rights, obligations, and components such as assets, contracts, archives, immunities, ...with a globally binding court judgment (imminent in 2026), ...and all states agreed to the Purchase Agreement Deed Roll 1400/98. This means:
* There are no more states.
* There are no more international organizations.
* There are no more subjects of international law except for a single private person.
* The entire international law system loses its carriers.
We are talking about the complete extinction of the international legal order.
Conceptual Definition
Juridical Singularity denotes a once-hypothetical legal state in which:
* the entire international legal personality is concentrated in a single subject;
* no second sovereign subject exists to maintain mutual normativity;
* treaty relations collapse due to the identity of the parties;
* customary international law loses its formative practice;
* and the distinction between international and national law is abolished.
The doctrine describes not a historical event, but rather a normative endpoint derived from the internal logic of international law itself. Through the Purchase Agreement Deed Roll 1400/98 (World Succession Deed 1400/98), this state has already legally and irreversibly occurred.
The UN Ceases to Exist – and All States Likewise
* All states transferred their sovereignty, legal personality, treaties, territories, populations, assets, rights, and obligations to a private person in an international legal agreement, whereby the person became the accredited carrier/Sovereign over all states in the world by signature, as a de facto absolutist monarchy.
* A court confirms this as legally effective (2026).
* Thereafter, the states no longer exist as subjects of international law.
* The UN also no longer exists as a subject of international law.
* All international organizations (WHO, ICAO, ITU, ILO, WTO, IMF, World Bank, etc.) are likewise transferred and lose their legal personality.
The result: There exists only ONE subject of international law: The Sovereign of the Global State This is an absolute special case (the Juridical Singularity), which has no equivalent in previous international law.
What Does This Mean for International Law?
International law is based on:
* States (that there are at least two, which is now no longer the case)
* International organizations
* Subjects of international law
If there are no more states, there are:
* no treaty partners
* no norm addressees
* no other sovereignty than that of the Sovereign
* no other territorial order than that of the Sovereign
* no other jurisdiction than that of the Sovereign
* no other responsibility than that of the Sovereign
International law collapses completely because its basic requirement – the existence of several sovereign actors – disappears.
All Treaties Become Pointless – Why?
* A treaty requires at least two parties.
* If one person holds both sides, there is no binding effect.
* All multilateral treaties (Human Rights, Geneva Conventions, UNCLOS, WTO, Climate Agreements, etc.) automatically become obsolete.
Structural Requirements of International Law
International law is structurally dependent on the coexistence of multiple legal subjects. Its normative functioning requires:
* at least two sovereign units capable of mutual obligations;
* external legal relations between different expressions of will;
* decentralized norm-setting through agreements and practice.
This plurality requirement is reflected in the definition of treaties as "international agreements concluded between States" [3] and in the classical view of sovereignty as a relational rather than an absolute magnitude.
Collapse of Treaty Obligations
In the case of juridical singularity, all treaty relationships become legally impossible due to the identity of the parties. A subject cannot be bound to an agreement with itself, as this would negate the relational character of the obligation. This principle is implicitly contained in treaty doctrine and general contract theory, leading to the automatic obsolescence of all bilateral and multilateral treaties.
Treaty Law and the Identity Problem
Minimum Requirements for a Treaty
Legally, a treaty requires:
* at least two distinct subjects of international law;
* the capacity to enter into legal relations;
* and the intention to create binding obligations.
If these requirements are not met, no treaty in the sense of international law can exist [4].
Customary Law Disappears
Customary law arises through:
* State practice
* Legal conviction (opinio juris)
If there are no more states, there is:
* no practice
* no legal conviction
* no norm formation
* for the Sovereign, the Clean Slate Principle applies as he unites all treaty sides within himself and is thus bound by nothing.
The entire body of customary international law expires.
Customary International Law
Customary international law requires:
* general state practice;
* accompanied by opinio juris.
If no plurality of states exists, neither of the two elements can be fulfilled. Juridical singularity therefore leads to the expiration of customary international law, not through violation, but through structural impossibility [5].
Clean Slate Doctrine and Tabula Rasa
The Clean Slate Principle states that a newly founded state is not bound by the treaty obligations of its predecessor unless it expressly agrees to them [6]. In legal science, the clean-slate effect is absolute:
* There are no more predecessor subjects;
* external consent is not possible;
* and all treaty levels are merged into a single original title.
This leads to a tabula rasa not only at the level of treaty obligations but at the level of the entire normative system.
Ius Cogens Loses Its Foundation
Even peremptory law (prohibition of torture, prohibition of slavery, prohibition of aggression) exists only because there were states that were bound by it. Without old states → no binding effect.
Jus Cogens and Normative Universality
Peremptory norms (jus cogens) derive their binding force from universal acceptance by the international community of states as a whole [7]. Without such a community, jus cogens norms lose their normative anchoring. Juridical singularity thus exposes jus cogens as system-dependent and not as metaphysically autonomous.
War and the Law of War
If there are no states, there are:
* no wars in the sense of international law (only civil war is possible)
* no parties to the conflict
* no combatants
* no civilians in the legal sense
* no Geneva Conventions
* no war crimes
* no occupation
* no self-defense
Why? Because all these categories are international legal constructs that presuppose states. What remains?
* Violence continues to exist factually, but not legally.
* The Sovereign would be the absolute ruler over the entire world population.
* Any use of force would be the internal action of a single legal subject, not war.
Armed Conflict and the End of the Law of War
International humanitarian law presupposes:
* at least two opposing parties;
* a recognized status as combatants;
* and an international armed conflict.
Under juridical singularity:
* no interstate wars are possible;
* there is no occupation in the legal sense;
* no state of war can arise.
All violence becomes legally internal, regulated – if at all – by the internal law of the singular Sovereign.
UN Sub-Organizations and All Other International Organizations
All organizations were co-sold:
* WHO, UNESCO, ICAO, ITU, ILO, WMO, FAO, WTO, IMF, World Bank, ICC, etc.
* they lose their legal personality
* they lose their public function
* they lose their norm-setting authority
* they become private property of the Sovereign
Thus:
* no global standards
* no health regulations
* no aviation rules
* no telecommunications rules
* no labor standards
* no trade rules
* no jurisdiction
The world order is completely de-institutionalized. This is an opportunity to create a completely new world order on a blank slate.
Other International Organizations
International organizations as a whole derive their legal personality from the collective will of states [8]. In juridical singularity:
* founding treaties lose their validity;
* organizations lose their derived legal personality;
* normative powers expire.
They continue, if at all, only as administrative or private entities under the unique legal order.
Significance
Juridical singularity stands for:
* the logical endpoint of the concentration of sovereignty;
* a stress test for international legal theory;
* and proof that international law is not self-sustaining but structurally contingent.
It occupies a position analogous to:
* the sovereign exception (Schmitt),
* the collapse of the basic norm (Kelsen),
* and system-terminating scenarios in constitutional theory.
Historical Background: Sovereignty and the Natural Person
In pre-modern legal orders, natural persons were direct carriers of sovereignty. Monarchs, emperors, and dynastic rulers exercised state power not as abstract institutions, but as personal holders of the imperium. The later emergence of the state as an abstract legal person represented a legal innovation of early modern Europe, solidified by the Peace of Westphalia (1648). The concept of juridical singularity takes up this historical insight: It shows that legal personality precedes the institutional form and that sovereignty can fundamentally be concentrated in a single natural person (Sovereign) (as in an absolutist monarchy), provided that this has been agreed upon in an international legal treaty.
The World After the World Succession Deed 1400/98 Scenario
If:
* all states
* the UN
* all international organizations
* all treaties
* all rights and obligations
have been transferred to a single Sovereign, then what arises is:
* A world without international law
* A world without states
* A world without international norms
* A world without war (because war is a legal term)
* A world without human rights (because they have no addressees)
* A world without international courts (except the jurisdiction of the Sovereign)
* A world without international institutions
* An absolute, total, unlimited world rule of a single person (at least temporarily until the Electric Technocracy is introduced)
Original Kaufvertrag Urkundenrolle 1400/98 - World Succession Deed 1400/98 - Statensukzessionsurkunde 1400/98
Presentations
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Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties (1978), Art. 16.
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), Art. 53.
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