Enzo Cannizzaro

About/Bio

Enzo Cannizzaro is full professor of International Law and European Union Law at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He has been visiting professor at a number of prestigious academic institutions, in the United States and in Europe, including the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas. His academic work has mainly focused on general aspects of international Law and European Union law and he has written extensively in both fields.

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The strange story of the “conditional” admission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations

On 10 May 2024, the General Assembly (GA) adopted by an overwhelming majority Resolution ES-10/23 on the admission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations. The resolution does not pronounce the admission. After determining in point 1 of the operative part that the State of Palestine meets the requirements for admission under Article 4(1) of the…

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When the Reasons are More Telling than the Ruling: The Order of the ICJ in South Africa v. Israel

A veil of discontent wraps the order of the ICJ of January 26. The Court disappointed those who consider that the determination prima facie of the violation of the Genocide Convention should have logically entailed the more radical measure of the cessation of military actions, as in the Ukraine v. Russia case; they presented the operative part of…

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