The mission of The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make accessible to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the practice and scholarship of international law. Volume XX (2010) features a cluster of contributions arising from a Symposium on “The Future of the ECHR System” hosted in April 2011 by the University of Napoli “L’Orientale” in the island of Procida. The symposium addressed the current challenges facing the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.