A History of International Law in Italy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:2nd Apr '20
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This volume critically reassesses the history and impact of international law in Italy. It examines how Italy's engagement with international law has been influenced and cross-fertilized by global dynamics, in terms of theories, methodologies, or professional networks. It asks to what extent historical and political turning points influenced this engagement, especially where scholars were part of broader academic and public debates or even active participants in the role of legal advisers or politicians. It explores how international law was used or misused by relevant actors in such contexts. Bringing together scholars specialized in international law and legal history, this volume first provides a historical examination of the theoretical legal analysis produced in the Italian context, exploring its main features, and dissident voices. The second section assesses the impact on international law studies of key historical and political events involving Italy, both international and domestically; and, conversely, how such events influenced perceptions of international law. Finally, a concluding section places the preceding analysis within a broader, contemporary perspective. This volume weighs in on in the growing debate on the need to explore international law from comparative and local viewpoints. It shows how regional, national, and local contexts have contributed to shaping international legal rules, institutions, and doctrines; and how these in turn influenced local solutions.
Bartolini offers an observation point aimed at seeing 'international law through the prism of national perspectives' ... The volume is the result of intense scientific work, also discussed during a specially constituted workshop organised at the European University Institute, together with Roma Tre University. The reflection of the dynamism of international law in Italy is clearly visible in the structure of the volume, which offers an intertwined binary vision of the theory and practice of the discipline. * Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, University of Zurich, Journal of the History of International Law *
Its nineteen chapters are waypoints in a fascinating voyage that will surely attract attention both from Italian and non-Italian scholars. The book offers a composite tapestry of theories, personalities, and works that fully reflects the layered and complex intricacies of the studies of international law in Italy ... Overall, the reviewed book is an important contribution to the study of the history of international law which deserves attention by international law scholars around the world. * Dr Marco Longobardo and Professor Marco Roscini, Lecturer in International Law, and Professor of International Law, University of Westminster, European Journal of International Law *
The quality of most contributions, with their detailed examination of the relations between different trends in scholarship, considered also in an international context, and between different theories in an historical perspective, makes reading this volume a must for all those who wish to understand the origin and developments of current theories and scholarly approaches to international law generally. * Giorgio Sacerdoti, Italian Yearbook of International Law *
The volume is the result of intense scientific work, also discussed during a specially constituted workshop organised at the European University Institute, together with Roma Tre University. The reflection of the dynamism of international law in Italy is clearly visible in the structure of the volume, which offers an intertwined binary vision of the theory and practice of the discipline. * Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Zurich, Journal of the History of International Law *
ISBN: 9780198842934
Dimensions: 240mm x 160mm x 30mm
Weight: 928g
508 pages