A History of International Law in Italy

Giulio Bartolini is associate professor of International Law at the Department of Law, Roma Tre University. He is editor-in-chief of the 'Yearbook of International Disaster Law' (Brill) and managing editor of the bilingual e-journal 'Questions of International Law/Questions de droit international'.

• Introduction1: Giulio Bartolini: What a History of International Law in Italy is for: International Law through the Prism of National PerspectivesPart 1: The Development of International Law Scholarship in Italy2: Claudia Storti: Early "Italian" Scholars of Ius gentium3: Walter Rech: International Law as a Political Language, 1600-18594: Edoardo Greppi: The Risorgimento and the "Birth" of International Law in Italy5: Eloisa Mura: The Construction of the International Law Discipline in Italy between the Mancinian and Positive Schools6: Giulio Bartolini: The Italian Legal Scholarships in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century7: Antonello Tancredi: The (Immediate) Post-II World War Period8: Ivan Ingravallo: The Formation of International Law Journals in Italy: Their Role in the Discipline9: Mirko Sossai: Catholicism and the Evolution of International Law Studies in Italy10: Lorenzo Gradoni: Burn Out and Fade Away: Marxism in Italian International Legal Scholarship11: Pietro Franzina: The Integrated Approach to Private and Public International Law - A Distinctive Feature of Italian Legal ThinkingPart 2: Key Historical and Political Events and Their Impact on the Italian Scholarship of International Law12: Sergio Marchisio: The Unification of Italy and International Law13: Tommaso Di Ruzza: The "Roman Question": The Dissolution of the Papal State, the Creation of the Vatican City State and the Debate on the International Legal Personality of the Holy See14: Tullio Scovazzi: The Italian Approach to Colonialism: The First Experiences in Eritrea and Somalia15: Giulio Bartolini: Italy between the Two World Wars: International Law Issues16: Roberto Virzo: The Influx of International Law Scholars in the Constitution-Making Process17: Enrico Milano: The Main International Law Issues Arising in the Aftermath of World War IIConclusions18: Giovanni DiStefano and Robert Kolb: Some Contributions and Influence of the Italian Doctrine of International Law19: Paolo Palchetti: The Last Decades of the Italian Doctrine

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.