Tuesday, January 3, 2012

New Volume: Italian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Italian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 20, 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: The Future of the ECHR System
    • Giuseppe Cataldi, Presentation of the Symposium
    • The ECHR System and International Law
    • Raffaella Nigro, The Notion of “Jurisdiction” in Article 1: Future Scenarios for the Extra-Territorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights
    • Ottavio Quirico, Substantive and Procedural Issues Raised by the Accession of the EU to the ECHR
    • Beatrice I. Bonafè, The ECHR and the Immunities Provided by International Law
    • Comments
    • Pasquale De Sena, The Notion of “Contracting Parties’ Jurisdiction” Under Article 1 of the ECHR: Some Marginal Remarks on Nigro’s Paper
    • Benedetto Conforti, Comments on the Accession of the European Union to the ECHR
    • Emilio De Capitani, EU Accession to the ECHR: A Parliamentary Perspective
    • Marco Gestri, Access to a Court and Jurisdictional Immunities of States: What Scope for the Balancing of Interests Test?
    • General Aspects of the Functioning of the ECHR System
    • Antonio Bultrini, The European Convention on Human Rights and the Rule of Prior Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies in International Law
    • Simona Granata, Manifest Ill-Foundedness and Absence of a Significant Disadvantage as Inadmissibility Criteria of Inadmissibility for the Individual Application to the Court
    • Andrea Caligiuri & Nicola Napoletano, The Application of the ECHR in the Domestic Systems
    • Comments
    • Guido Raimondi, Reflections on the Rule of Prior Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
    • Françoise Tulkens, The Link Between Manifest Ill-Foundedness and Absence of a Significant Disadvantage as Inadmissibility Criteria for Individual Applications
    • Pasquale Pirrone, The Value of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights for the Courts of the Respondent State: Domestic Judicial Decision in Favour of the Applicant and the Principle of “Doing as Much as Possible”
    • General Conclusion on the Symposium
    • Jean-Paul Costa, Concluding Remarks on the Future of the Strasbourg Court