Sabino Cassese

Sabino Cassese (born on 20 October, 1935 in Atripalda, Italy) is an Italian Professor of Administrative Law and currently a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy.

Education and career

Graduated (October 1956) summa cum laude in law from the University of Pisa, where he also studied at the Collegio giuridico of the Scuola Normale Superiore. He was assistant professor at the Universities of Pisa and Rome and, since 1961, has served as professor at the Universities of Urbino, Naples and Rome. He has been a member of many ministerial committees and of the governing body of the Italian Central Statistical Office. From 1975 to 1983 he taught at the Advanced School for the Civil Service (Rome). In 1993-94 he was a member of the Italian Government.

Sabino Cassese has received a doctor honoris causa degree from six Universities: Aix-en-Provence (1987), Cordoba (1995), Paris II (1998), Castilla-La Mancha (2002), Athens (2002) and Macerata (2002).

He was president of the European Group of Public Administration (International Institute of Administrative Sciences) from 1987 to 1991; a visiting scholar at Berkeley (1965), London (1969), Stanford (1970, 1975, 1986) and Oxford (1987, 1988, 1989, 1995); professeur associé at the Universities of Paris 1 (1986, 1994, 1995, 1999), Nantes (1987) and at the “Institut d’Etudes Politiques” – Paris (1991); guest scholar Wilson Center, Washington (1983); professor at the Hauser Global Law School of the New York University (2004) and professor at the Master of Public Affairs 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 of the Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques.

Publications

Among his recent publications:
* La construction du droit administratif (2000, Montchrestien);
* Portrait de l’Italie actuelle (2001, La Documentation Française; trad. it. Ritratto dell’Italia, 2001, Laterza);
* La crisi dello Stato (2001, Laterza);
* Is There Really a ‘Democratic Deficit?’ in “Institutional reforms in the European Union – Memorandum for the Convention” (2002, Europeos);
* Lo spazio giuridico globale (2003, Laterza);
* The Age of Administrative Reforms, in “Governing Europe” (2003, J. Hayward-A. Menon, eds., Oxford Univ. Press);
* The Italian Legal System 1945-1999, in “Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization” (2003, L.M. Friedman-R. Perez Perdomo, eds., Stanford Univ. Press);
* Trattato di diritto amministrativo (editor) (2003, II ed., Giuffrè);
* La Nuova Costituzione Economica (2004; II ed. 2007, Laterza);
* European Administrative Proceedings in « Law and Contemporary Problems » (2004, vol. 68, n. 1);
* Istituzioni di diritto amministrativo (editor, 2005, II ed. Giuffrè);
* Manuale di diritto pubblico (2005, Giuffrè);
* Global standards for national administrative procedure, in « Law and Contemporary Problems » (2005,vol. 68, nn. 3-4);
* Dizionario di diritto pubblico (editor) (2006, Giuffrè);
* Oltre lo Stato (2006, Laterza);
* Global Administrative Law: An Introduction in « Journal of International Law and Politcs » (2005, Summer, vol. 37, n. 4, p. 663-694) ;
* The Globalization of Law, in « Journal of International Law and Politics » (2005, Summer, vol. 37, n. 4, p. 973-993) ;
* La partecipazione dei privati alle decisioni pubbliche. Saggio di diritto comparato in «Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico» (2007, fasc. 1, p. 13-41).

External links

* [http://www.cortecostituzionale.it/versioni_in_lingua/eng/lacortecostituzionale/composizione/giudici_costituzionali.asp#109 Sabino Cassese]