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 literature of international law. Volume XIX (2009) features a series of contributions arising from a Symposium on "International Law in Italian Courts: Ten Years of Jurisprudence" held in April 2010 at the European University Institute. Following a general article on the substantive and methodological issues arising from the Italian jurisprudence relating to international law in the past decade, this section focuses on four specific...

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...