Justice, Italian Constitutional Court and Emeritus professor at the « Scuola Normale Superiore » of Pisa.
He teachs “Storia e teoria dello Stato” at the “Scuola Normale Superiore” of Pisa.
Professor of Administrative Law, Law Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza” from 1985 to 2005.
Born in October 1935, 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 seven Universities: Aix-en-Provence (1987) Cordoba (1995) Paris II (1998) Castilla-La Mancha (2002) Athens (2002) and Macerata (2002) European University Institut (2010), Roma “Sapienza” and Florence European University Institute.
Among his recent publications: Il mondo nuovo del diritto (2008, Laterza) I tribunali di Babele (2009, Donzelli) Il diritto globale (2009, Einaudi) Massimo Severo Giannini (2010, Laterza) and Il diritto amministrativo: storia e prospettive (2010, Giuffrè) Lo stato fascista (2010, Il Mulino) When legal orders collide: the Role of Courts (2010, Global Law Press) L’Italia una società senza Stato? (2011, Il Mulino); “Tre maestri del diritto” (Editoriale Scientifica, 2012); “Lo Stato e il suo diritto” scritto con Pierangelo Schiera e Armin von Bogdandy (Il Mulino, 2013); “Governare gli italiani” (Il Mulino, 2014); “Diritto amministrativo. Una conversazione” con Luisa Torchia (Il Mulino, 2014); Dentro la Corte. Diario di un giudice costituzionale (il Mulino, 2015); Territori e Potere (il Mulino, 2016); La democrazia e i suoi limiti (Mondadori, 2017); A World Government? (Global Law Press, 2018), La democrazia e i suoi limiti, Nuova edizione aggiornata (Mondadori, 2018). He’s editor of Lezioni sul meridionalismo. Nord e Sud nella storia d’Italia (il Mulino, 2016), of the Research Handbook onGlobal Administrative Law (Elgar, 2016), of The Administrative State (with Armin von Bogdandy and Peter Huber, Oxford University Press, 2017).