Bartolini offers an observation point aimed at seeing 'international law through the prism of national perspectives' ... The volume is the result of intense scientific work, also discussed during a specially constituted workshop organised at the European University Institute, together with Roma Tre University. The reflection of the dynamism of international law in Italy is clearly visible in the structure of the volume, which offers an intertwined binary vision of the theory and practice of the discipline.

Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, University of Zurich, Journal of the History of International Law

Its nineteen chapters are waypoints in a fascinating voyage that will surely attract attention both from Italian and non-Italian scholars. The book offers a composite tapestry of theories, personalities, and works that fully reflects the layered and complex intricacies of the studies of international law in Italy ... Overall, the reviewed book is an important contribution to the study of the history of international law which deserves attention by international law scholars around the world.

Dr Marco Longobardo and Professor Marco Roscini, Lecturer in International Law, and Professor of International Law, University of Westminster, European Journal of International Law

The quality of most contributions, with their detailed examination of the relations between different trends in scholarship, considered also in an international context, and between different theories in an historical perspective, makes reading this volume a must for all those who wish to understand the origin and developments of current theories and scholarly approaches to international law generally.

Giorgio Sacerdoti, Italian Yearbook of International Law