This module address cross-cutting law and policy issues that arise before international courts and tribunals (ICJ, ITLOS, inter-State arbitration, WTO AB, ICC,...

Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals (LAWS0235)

This module address cross-cutting law and policy issues that arise before international courts and tribunals (ICJ, ITLOS, inter-State arbitration, WTO AB, ICC, human rights courts, ICSID etc.). The module addresses certain cross-cutting legal and policy issues that arise before various international courts and tribunals (among other, International Court of Justice, International Tribunal Law of the Sea, inter-State arbitration, World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body, International Criminal Court, regional human rights courts, investor-State arbitration). The module does not provide classes that address each court or tribunal on its own in detail, and students are expected to do background reading in the first weeks to acquire basic familiarity with key features of these institutions.

This module will explore how the Fascist period, including the Resistance and the Holocaust, have been remembered and interpreted in Italy since 1945. We will...

Cultures of Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Italy (ITAL0023)

This module will explore how the Fascist period, including the Resistance and the Holocaust, have been remembered and interpreted in Italy since 1945. We will study how modes of remembrance, forgetting and commemoration have shifted and developed over the last 75 years and the role that Fascism has played and continues to play in Italian collective memory. Among the topics to be examined will be the myth of ‘italiani brava gente’ (Italians good people), the ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist-era art and architecture which is ubiquitous in Italy and the rise of neo-Fascist political parties. We will consider how the Italian public has encountered the memory of Fascism since 1945 by studying its representation in cinema, exhibitions and museum displays. For comparative purposes, we will also study selected exhibitions about Fascism that have occurred outside of Italy and will examine how former the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Albania have confronted and managed the material legacies of the Fascist regime. 

I would propose to teach this module in a mixture of English and Italian. 

Indicative primary sources 


	 Photographs of Fascist-era architecture and memorials to victims of WW2 and the Holocaust;  virtual tours of selected museums 
	
	
	 Exhibition catalogues related to Fascist-era art, e.g. Arte moderna in Italia, 1915–1935 (Florence, 1967) and Gli anni trenta (Milan, 1982) 
	
	
	 Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati (1986) / The Drowned and the Saved, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (Simon & Schuster, 2017) 
	

	 Igiaba Scego, ‘Il museo del fascismo a Predappio è sbagliato’, Internazionale, 5 March 2016 
	

	  
	
Indicative secondary sources 


	 Angelo Del Boca, Italiani brava gente? Un mito duro a morire (Neri Pozza, 2005) 
	
	
	 Francesco Filippi, Ma perché siamo ancora fascisti? (Bollati Boringhieri, 2020) 
	

	 Robert S. Gordon, The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 (Stanford University Press, 2012) 