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    Italian Legal Scholarship of International Law in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century

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    The early decades of the twentieth century are usually described as marking a significant turn in the Italian doctrine of international law, as it moved from an uncertain landscape to the allegedly monolithic approach described in 1931 by Lauterpacht, who identified the Italian scholarship as a ‘rigid and frequently uncompromising positivist school in international law’. While his statement has some merits, this chapter seeks both to illustrate how such a shift originally came about, in contrast to the mixed theoretical approaches that characterized the previous decades, and, conversely, to emphasize the multifaceted perspectives that were effectively present in those decades, thus partly circumscribing Lauterpacht’s assertion
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