The judgment of the American Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the case Kiobel has renewed the debate on the accountability of multinational enterprises for human

rights. The Court referred to international law to identify rules on corporate liability for breaches of international human rights law. [...]

According to recent figures, the Central Mediterranean route will be increasingly used by environmental migrants, that is to say victims of desertification and of the rise

in temperature, primarily coming from the so-called Sahel belt. In the absence of an international regulation providing for common standards concerning the protection [...]

This paper analyzes the technique of consistent interpretation, one of the most common tools by which national courts give effect to international law. After describing the

functions that consistent interpretation can conceivably perform in the domestic implementation of international law and clarifying its conceptual relationship to [...]

This essay deals with the distinction between obligations of conduct and obligations of result in international law. It first traces the origins of the distinction in the writings

of German and Italian legal scholars. It then considers its inclusion in the Draft Articles on State Responsibility as adopted on first reading by the International [...]

The proliferation in the international legal system of treaty rules belonging to different functionally defined regimes, including international human rights law and investment

law, has given rise to normative conflicts. The current Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights attempts to prevent these conflicts by including conflict clauses, [...]

This article discusses recent developments in International and European law in terms of progressive human rights protections against corporate abuses. Reference is made, respectively,

to a treaty under negotiation, namely the Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, the Activities of Transnational Corporations [...]

This article focuses on the main substantive innovations of the EU contribution to a sustainable international investment law, that is an international investment law aimed

at the realization of sustainable development. The European Union has attempted to be a protagonist in this respect. [...]

The uncontrollable spread of the Covid-19 pandemic disease has caused extensive responses of the affected States, under the pressure of the emergency situation and under the

influence of international organizations. To act as the leading guide and coordinator of the reaction to a pandemic at an international law level, the World Health [...]