Il non-essere non è e non può essere’: brevi note a margine della sentenza n. 238/2014 della Corte costituzionale rispetto all’adattamento dell’ordinamento italiano al diritto internazionale consuetudinario

This paper comments on the decision of the Italian Constitutional Court, no. 238 of 2014, which barred the enforcement in Italy of the 2012 judgement of the International Court of Justice in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case. The Italian Constitutional Court recognized the right of Italian victims of international crimes committed by German army during the Second World War to claim monetary compensation against Germany before Italian courts since the customary rule on State immunities cannot be implemented in the Italian domestic legal order insofar as it is contrary to the constitutional fundamental right to access to justice.