The Present And Future Of Jus Cogens Enzo Cannizzaro by Enzo Cannizzaro 9788898533657, 8898533659 instant download after payment.

This book gathers the contributions presented to the first edition of the 

Gaetano Morelli Lectures, held in the Spring of 2014.  

In presenting this initiative, also on behalf of my colleagues, Paolo 

Palchetti and Beatrice Bonafè, I wrote:  

“The aim of the Lectures is to offer conceptual tools for appraising contro-

versial knots of international law in its continuing development. There is 

a lot of sense, in our view, for doing this. International law is one of the 

branches of legal science where the pressing need for change goes hand 

in hand with the persistence of its basic legal paradigms. It is this 

unique blend of theory and practice, of tradition and innovation, which 

makes international law so challenging and ultimately explains its on-

going intellectual fascination”.  

This sentence condenses our shared view of the Lectures and, more 

generally, our vision of legal research, as an incessant collective re-

flection capable to shake continuously our most consolidated ideas 

and preconceptions. 

This is the reason which led us to choose jus cogens as the topic for 

the first edition of the Lectures. Jus cogens is not only a “classical ac-

complished” of international law. It is, first and foremost, a litmus test 

for its future development, situated at the crossroad from where di-

verse perspectives depart: one which leads back to the traditional bi-

lateralist conception; another, at the other end of the spectrum, which 

leads to new and still unexplored territories, where the common val-

ues of mankind unfold all their potentialities.