Il contributo della dottrina italiana al tema della responsabilità internazionale degli Stati per fatto illecito: qualche osservazione

The contribution of Italian scholars to the law of State responsibility for wrongful acts has been both rich and diverse throughout the last century. The paper highlights some aspects of the debate about a few general areas of the subject, such as the distinction between primary and secondary rules; the content of the relationship between the wrongdoer and the injured States; the violation of erga omnes obligations; crimes of States; the relevance of private individuals' conduct. It is impossible to distinguish an Italian from an international debate; rather, in all these areas ideas expressed by Italian scholars were, and still are, examined, debated, sometime discarded, often accepted, by such bodies as the International Law Commission or the International Court of Justice.