On October 22, 2014, the Italian Constitutional Court (the Court) ruled that several international laws on foreign state immunity were incompatible with the Italian legal order in regard to war crimes and crimes against humanity.  According to the unofficial English translation, the Court declared unlawful certain legislation that Italy had enacted in order to put into effect the International Court of Justice’s 2012 judgment on Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy).  The Court found constitutionally unlawful Article 3 of Italian law 5/2013, which ratified certain aspects of the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities and “requir[ed] Italian Courts to decline jurisdiction in any cases where the International Court of Justice had decided that Italian civil Courts should [grant immunity to the unlawful] conduct of other States.”  The Court also found unlawful the Italian law that ratified the UN charter with respect to the execution of Article 94 (relating to compliance with the International Court of Justice), which required Italy “to decline [its] jurisdiction in relation to the acts of a foreign State which consist [of] war crimes and crimes against humanity.”