Torroja Mateu, Helena2024-01-312024-01-312020-12-312341-0868https://hdl.handle.net/2445/206826Three years ago, more than 400 members of the Spanish Association of International Law and International Relations Professors (AEPDIRI from the Spanish) signed the ‘Statement on the Lack of Foundation on International Law of the Independence Referendum that Has Been Convened in Catalonia’, dated 19 September 2017. With the perspective afforded by hindsight, this article will explore why it was a timely and necessary statement, reflecting the intellectuals’ civic responsibility to society, and why the statement’s concise content perfectly reflects the truth of contemporary international law22 p.application/pdfeng(c) Universidad de Cádiz, 2020Dret internacionalReferèndum de l'1 d'octubre de 2017, CatalunyaAutodeterminació nacionalInternational lawCatalan independence referendum, 2017National self-determinationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7119812024-01-31info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess