The ruling of the International Court of Justice in 2012 about State immunity against claims arising from war crimes has been an historical sentence. In Italy it was received with a mix of disapproval and resignation. Some scholars believed that the ICJ was breaking off a possible evolution of the international law, while others admitted that the Italian court had bitten off more than it was able to chew. Yesterday, a new verdict by the Italian Constitutional Court has opened the case again and it will probably cause reactions from Germany and maybe a new ruling by the ICJ.
I am writing this post not to comment the case but to briefly explain the matter and translate in English the new Italian sentence and some of the early reactions to it.