The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XII (2002) is organised in three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions including articles on the historical roots of the doctrine of just war, the legacy of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention thirty years after its adoption, the issue of compensation for victims of violations of the law of war, the extraterritoriality of the European Convention on Human Rights, and on the effects of...

The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XIII (2003) is organised in three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions including articles on State responsibility for the breach of positive obligations; State continuity and the case of Somalia; the European Union's international relations and the notion of fragmented sovereignty; self-defence and the problem of attribution of the September 11 attacks on the US; and the ICTY...

The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XIV (2004) is organised in three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions including articles on the UN Charter reform; corporations as international actors; human genetics and reproductive technology; and on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This section includes also notes on the seminal judgment of the Italian Supreme Court in...

The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XV (2005) is organised in three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions including articles on the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights; the UN Charter reform, focusing on the new Human Rights Council and Peacebuilding Commission and on environmental governance; and minority protection in Italy. This section includes also notes on current judicial and...

In a world where diversity and pluralism are indispensable values for the balanced progress of international law, knowledge of the contribution that each State makes to the formation and development of international norms is increasingly important for both scholars and practitioners. The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English-speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. The Yearbook is organised into three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions featuring articles on...

The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XI (2001) is organised in three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions featuring inter alia articles on the international law aspects of the 2001 Italian constitutional amendment, the judicial enforcement of customary human rights law and the issue of overlapping dispute settlement regimes in light of the Southern Bluefin Tuna case. A special focus of this volume is the...

The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XVII (2007) is organised in three main sections. The first contains doctrinal contributions on the timely issue of the individual right of access to justice and focuses on the Inter-American human rights system, on remedies against acts of international organisations and UN Security Council's targeted sanctions, and on the participation of amici curiae in investor-State arbitrations. This section...

The Italian Yearbook of International Law aims at making accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law. Volume XVIII (2008) marks the tenth anniversary of the New Series of the IYIL. The Volume is organised in three sections. The first is thematically structured around a main topic and a series of doctrinal contributions on relevant and topical issues of international law. The feature theme of this volume is controversial territorial situations and the role of recognition and secession. The articles by Gioia and...

The mission of The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and scholarship of international law. Volume XX (2010) features a cluster of contributions arising from a Symposium on "The Future of the ECHR System" hosted in April 2011 by the University of Napoli "L'Orientale" on the island of Procida. The symposium addressed the current challenges facing the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Following a general presentation of the symposium, the...

The mission of The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make the Italian contribution to the practice and literature of international law accessible to the English speaking public. Volume XXI (2011) features a Symposium on the international law questions arising from the Libyan crisis. The Symposium addresses: i) issues of jus ad bellum and jus in bello, such as the legality and limits of the NATO's intervention; ii) the recognition of the Libyan National Transitional Council; iii) the implementation of economic and financial sanctions in Italy; and iv) the problem...