Giulio Bartolini

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Giulio Bartolini is Associate Professor of international law at Roma Tre University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law and responsible for the Jean Monnet Project ‘Disseminating Disaster Law for Europe’.

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Are You Ready for a Pandemic? The International Health Regulations Put to the Test of Their ‘Core Capacity Requirements’

Legal analyses of the Covid-19 pandemic have mainly addressed measures adopted in response to this event. However, institutional agendas related to disasters, such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, reaffirm that similar attention should be paid to prevention and preparedness measures that can positively impact potentially affected communities, also in economic terms…

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The Draft Articles on “The Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters”: Towards a Flagship Treaty?

The debate held on 24 - 26 October within the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Sixth Committee concluded an intensive year for the International Law Commission (ILC) topic “The Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters”. It followed the adoption of the related 18 Draft Articles (DAs) on their second reading, and of the Commentary (here),…

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The ‘Compliance Track’ on a Track to Nowhere

The 32nd International Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IC), held from 8th to 10th December 2015 and bringing together delegations from States Party to the Geneva Conventions (GCs), National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the ICRC and the IFRC, has already attracted some comments (here and here). A little-explored topic to date…

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