Introduction

After the 1999 NATO intervention caused by a decade of inter-ethnic conflict, Kosovo came under the administration of an international transitional authority (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo – UNMIK) (Grasten and Uberti, 2017). At the beginning of the UNMIK Mission, the legal order remained tethered to Yugoslav laws applicable in Kosovo before 24 March 1999. Yet this continuity quickly met resistance. Local judges and prosecutors, convinced that this legislation carried the imprint of discrimination against Kosovar Albanians, refused to enforce them.