This Volume features a focus on the international law issues raised by the fight against piracy, which includes a detailed analysis of the ongoing dispute between Italy and India arising from the Enrica Lexie incident involving the accidental killing of Indian fishermen in an anti-piracy operation (Ronzitti), an assessment of the impact of piracy on the development of the law of the sea (Treves) and a comment on recent Italian legislation authorizing the deployment of anti-piracy armed personnel on merchant vessels, with the attendant risk of escalation of violence and human rights...
This Volume features a focus on the international law issues raised by the fight against piracy, which includes a detailed analysis of the ongoing dis...
This Volume XXIII of the the Italian Yearbook of International Law opens with a symposium on current trends and challenges of international investment law and arbitration taking into account the 2013 Tokyo Resolution of the Institut de droit international. It contains contributions on foreign investments, sovereignty and the public good (Francioni), on the role of customary law in investment regulation (Vinuales), on fragmentation (Petersmann), on a development-friendly definition of investment (Acconci), on the transfer provisions of Bilateral Investment Treaties (De Luca) and...
This Volume XXIII of the the Italian Yearbook of International Law opens with a symposium on current trends and challenges of international inv...
The mission of the The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make available to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the literature and practice of international law. It is fitting with this mission that this Volume XXIV opens with a focus on the controversial Judgment No. 238/2014 of the Italian Constitutional Court on the unconstitutionality of State immunity for international crimes. The five contributions by Francioni, Pisillo Mazzeschi, Bothe, Cataldi, and Palchetti provide a variety of opinions on the timely issue of how traditional doctrines of State...
The mission of the The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make available to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to th...
Volume XXV of the Italian Yearbook of International Law opens with pieces dedicated to the memory of Professor Conforti and Professor Ferrari Bravo, two founding members of the Board of Editors of the IYIL who passed away in early 2016. There follows a Focus section devoted to a number of international and European legal issues raised by the ongoing migratory crisis. It discusses inter alia the fight against migrant smuggling under UN Security Council resolution 2240 (2015), amendment proposals to the 1951 Refugees Convention, the implications for international responsibility of...
Volume XXV of the Italian Yearbook of International Law opens with pieces dedicated to the memory of Professor Conforti and Professor Ferrari B...