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Italy between the Two World Wars: International Law Issues”, in Giulio Bartolini (es.), “A History of International Law in Italy
What is a History of International Law in Italy for? International Law through the Prism of National Perspectives
Report of the Expert Meeting on the ILC's Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters
Italian Legal Scholarship of International Law in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century
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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