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 idea of cultural heritage as an 'international public good' can be traced back to the Preamble of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, according to which "damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatsoever means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind." How this idea of cultural heritage as a global public good can be reconciled with the effective enforcement of protection norms is the subject of this study. Bringing together world experts in protecting cultural heritage, Enforcing International Cultural...

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...

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...

This volume presents a critical analysis of transatlantic relations in the field of environmental governance and climate change. The work focuses on understanding the possible trends in the evolution of global environmental governance and the prospects for breaking the current impasse on climate action. Drawing on research involving experts from eleven different universities and institutes, the authors provide innovative analyses on policy measures taken by the EU and the US, the world s largest economic and commercial blocs, in a number of fields, ranging from general attitudes on...