Management Board: Pasquale De Sena (Editor, Naples), Mariano J. Aznar Gómez (Castellón e Valencia), Paolo Benvenuti (Rome), Andrea Bianchi (Milan e Geneva), Cristina Campiglio (Pavia), Enzo Cannizzaro (Rome), Giuseppe Cataldi (Naples), Andrew Clapham (Geneva), Bardo Fassbender (Berlin), Edoardo Greppi (Turin), Massimo Iovane (Naples), Mario Oetheimer (Vienna), Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi (Siena), Francesco Salerno (Ferrara), Carlo Santulli (Paris), Rosario Sapienza (Catania), Jean Marc Sorel (Paris).
Scientific Board: Sergio Bartole, Luigi Bonanate, Francesco Donato Busnelli, Paolo Caretti, Antonio Cassese, Mario Chiavario, Benedetto Conforti, Giovanni Conso, Guido Corso, Luigi Ferrajoli, Luigi Ferrari Bravo, Giovanni Fiandaca, Francesco Francioni, Giorgio Gaja, Flavia Lattanzi, Luca Nivarra, Paolo Picone, Fausto Pocar, Stefano Rodotà, Antonio Ruggeri, Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Mario Rusciano, Michele Scudiero, Roberto Toniatti, Francesco Viola, Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, Stefano Zamagni, Danilo Zolo.
Consultants: Roberto Bin, Luigino Bruni, Cosimo Cascione, Bruno Celano, Giovanni Fiandaca, Marcello Flores, Gregorio Gitti, Fabrizio Marrella, Mario Ricca, Mario Rusciano
Editorial Staff: Francesco Agnello, Lara Appicciafuoco, Natalia Barbato, Giulio Bartolini, Maria Eugenia Bartoloni, Angelica Bonfanti, Giovanni Carlo Bruno (head of editorial staff), Andrea Caligiuri, Noemi Corso, Adele Del Guercio, Gabriele Della Morte, Francesca De Vittor, Adriana Di Stefano, Marco Evola, Marco Fasciglione, Angelo Gitti, Nicola Napoletano, Andrea Saccucci, Enzamaria Tramontana, Filiberto Trione.
Management address: Dipartimento di Scienze internazionalistiche e di Studi sul Sistema politico ed istituzionale europeo, Università di Napoli "Federico II", via Mezzocannone 4, 80134 Napoli. Tel. 0812536617 Fax 0812536616
Editorial office: Istituto di Studi giuridici internazionali (Napoli), Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche, via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Tel. 0816132320 / 0816132322; fax 0816132701; e-mail:
diritti.umani@isgi.cnr.it The decision to found
Human Rights and International Law (Diritti umani e diritto internazionale) was inspired by three background factors: the prominence being assumed by the human rights movement in global organisation; increasingly emphasised interaction between the international dimension of the human rights movement and the relevant elements of state judicial experience; the scale and relevance of the scientific debate regarding human rights. Although edited by a group of international jurists, Human Rights and International Law seeks to provide a means for interdisciplinary reflection within its field of study. The journal is divided into four sections: Studies, Papers, Observatory, and Debate and Reviews. The Studies section proposes in-depth examinations; Papers hosts articles on specific subjects, preferably related to current affairs, as well as mono-thematic forums (for example, papers have been published on the US Military Commission Act, the trial of Saddam Hussein, the sentence of the International Court of Justice in the case of Bosnia Herzegovina v. Serbia, the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, the sentence of the Constitutional Court on the relationship between the Italian system and the European Convention on Human Rights, international financial transactions, and the safeguarding of confidentiality); the Observatory contains brief contributions, divided thematically, which provide an overview of developments - the most relevant judgments, legal acts etc - regarding the protection of human rights. It also, on occasion, offers an informed, reasoned, and concise 'guide' to single events; Debate and Reviews proposes contributions from different scientific and cultural fields, usually entrusted to scholars from these areas.