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    THE ENRICA LEXIE AWARD AMID JURISDICTIONAL AND LAW OF THE SEA ISSUES

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    This article analyzes the Enrica Lexie Arbitral Award, first of all, in relation to international law issues concerning the application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The article then focuses on the question of the functional immunity of the two marines, from the point of view of the Tribunal’s assertion of its incidental jurisdiction to deal with the matter, as well as of the Tribunal’s affirmation of the existence of a customary international law rule applicable in the present case. Both conclusions appear unconvincing, also in light of the role of the two marines on board a merchant ship. In any case, the fact remains that the judgment has the merit of finally putting an end to a long-standing dispute, to the satisfaction of the two parties involved

    Búsqueda y rescate: la necesidad de equilibrar el control de fronteras con las obligaciones en materia de Derecho del mar y de los derechos humanos

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    Es innegable que la salida de inmigrantes en búsqueda de una vida mejor en Europa se ha convertido en una constante en los últimos años, por una serie de razones bien conocidas. El tránsito de estos migrantes a través del Mediterráneo es dramático, ya que, si bien la migración por mar supone un porcentaje minoritario de todo el fenómeno migratorio mundial, presenta riesgos mucho mayores para la vida humana que el tránsito por tierra, como consecuencia de los medios de transporte utilizados y de la falta de familiaridad con el medio acuático de las personas involucradas

    Disobbedienza e diritto nell’ottica dell’internazionalista

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    Civil disobedience represents an immanent principle in the Italian Constitution, which in other Constitutions has been expressed. It must be accepted as a component of the political culture of a developed democratic community. The people is subject to the law, which in democracies, however, must be consistent with the fundamental principles of human rights. Concerning International Law, civil disobedience to it represents disobedience to a rule of international law which does not take account of a legitimacy guaranteed by international law itself to a higher hierarchical level, otherwise it is simply a practice aimed at the attempt to change an international rule that no longer corresponds to the ‘feeling’ of the international community, as it is shown by many examples, in particular by the refusal of the Organization for African Unity (OAU, today African Union, AU) to the persistence of UN economic sanctions against Libya. Not all ‘national disobediences’ are anyway homologous; some are justifiable because they strengthen fundamental rights precisely in the name of International Law, as “International Constitutionalism” cannot be understood as blind obedience to the rules of the higher order. It is clear that obedience to the State-Nation ceases in the face of the duty of loyalty to the human community in respect of the values of International Law, as it has recently shown by practice concerning Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean
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