Introduction

Professor Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz has distinguished himself as a scholar of international law, a teacher of international law, an international arbitrator, an international negotiator for Italy in United Nations and other fora, and as a expositor and codifier of international law. In that latter capacity, he served as a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations, and as the Commission's Special Rapporteur on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts. The Commission's engagement with the topic of State responsibility virtually spanned the ...