Sabino Cassese (born in 1935) is Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court since 2005.
He is Professor of “History and Theory of the State” at the “Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa” and teaches “Regulation, Adjudication and Dispute Settlement beyond the State” for the “Master of Public Affairs” of the “Institut d’Etudes Politiques” in Paris.
He graduated in 1956 from the “Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa”.
He was assistant in the Universities of Pisa and Rome, where he became Professor in 1964.
He was researcher in Monaco di Baviera, Fribourg and London. He worked in ENI from 1958 to 1962. He has taught at the Faculty of Economics in Ancona and has been of counsel to the economic planning (1962-74).
He has been Dean of the Faculty of Economics in Ancona until 1974. He has taught in Naples for one year and then in Rome for eight years at the “Scuola superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione”. From 1983 to 2005 he was full professor at Sapienza University in Rome, where he has taught economic public law at the Faculty of Political Science and Administrative Law at the Law School. From 1991 to 1993 he was Director of the Institute of Public Law. From 2000 to 2004 he was president of the “Associazione Italiana dei Professori di Diritto Amministrativo”.
From 1961 to 2005 he has been member and president of fifty parliamentary and ministerial commissions, member of the Board of Directors of Istat (1984-1990), of the Board of Directors of “Ufficio Italiano Cambi” (1987-91 and 1992-93), President of the “Commissione di garanzia per lo sciopero nei servizi pubblici” (1990-91), President of “Immmobiliare Italia” (1993), member and subsequently president of the Scientific Board of the Italian Competition Authority (1992-94), member of the Scientific Board of CONSOB (1995-98) and Minister for Public Administration under the Presidency of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1993-94).
He has worked in the economic, public and private sector (for “ENI”, “Banca Nazionale del Lavoro”, “Cassa di Risparmio di Calabria e Lucania”, “Cassa di Risparmio of Roma Factoring”, “Banco di Sicilia”, “Olivetti”, “Autostrade”, “Lottomatica”, “Assicurazioni Generali”). He has been member of the Scientific Board of “Confindustria” (1986-93, 1996-99, 2002-05).
He has held conferences and lectures in many countries (United States, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Norway, Belgium, USSR, Poland, Argentina, China, etc).
He was Visiting Scholar at the University of Berkeley (1965), Stanford Law School (1970, 1973-74, 1981), Nuffield College of Oxford (1987, 1988, 1989) and Fellow of the Wilson Center in Washington (1983). He was also Professeur associé at the University of Paris 1 (1986) and Nantes (1987), and Global Visiting Professor at the Hauser Global Law School of New York University (2004, 2010). He has taught at the “Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht” in Heidelberg (2008).
He has been President of the European Group of Public Administration from 1987 to 1991. From 1999 to 2005 he has been representative of Sapienza University at the Board of Administrators of the European Public Law Center.
He was granted the Honoris Causa Degree by the Universities of Aix-en-Provence, Cordoba (Argentina), Paris II, Castilla-La Mancha, Athens, Macerata and by the European University Institute in Fiesole.
Ha has directed several research projects, among them the final project on the Organization and functioning of public administration of the National Research Council (CNR) (1987-1994). He has collaborated with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCSE) for the reform of public administration in Central and Eastern Europe.
He has been member of the Scientific Boards of many Italian and Foreign Research Institutes.
He is director of the Italian “Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico” and “Rivista di diritto amministrativo”. He is member of the scientific board of many other Italian and foreign public law journals.
He is author of numerous books and articles in Italy and abroad. Among his most recent books: “La nuova costituzione economica” (edited by), Laterza, IV ed. 2007; “Le basi del diritto amministrativo”, Garzanti, 2000; “Trattato di diritto amministrativo” (edited by), Giuffrè, II ed. 2003; “La construction du droit administratif France et Royaume-Uni”, Montchrestien, 2000; “Ritratto dell’Italia”, Laterza, 2001; “La crisi dello Stato”, Laterza, 2002; “Lo spazio giuridico globale”, Laterza, 2003; “Istituzioni di diritto amministrativo” (edited by), Giuffrè, III ed. 2009; “Oltre lo Stato”, Laterza, 2006; “Il mondo nuovo del diritto”, Il Mulino, 2008; “Culture et politique du droit administratif”, Dalloz, 2008; “I tribunali di Babele. I giudici alla ricerca di un nuovo ordine globale”, Donzelli, 2009; “Il diritto globale. Giustizia e democrazia oltre lo Stato”, Einaudi, 2009; “Manuale di diritto pubblico” (edited by), Giuffrè, IV ed. 2009; “Massimo Severo Giannini” (edited by), Laterza, 2010; “Il diritto amministrativo: storia e prospettive”, Giuffrè, 2010.
He has been columnist for the following Italian newspapers: “Paese Sera”, “L’Espresso”, “Il Messaggero”, “La Stampa”, “La Repubblica”, “Il Sole 24 Ore”, “Il Corriere della Sera”.
He received the “Campano d’oro” medal from the University of Pisa in 1992 and the “Prix Alexis de Tocqueville” in 1997. Since 1994 he is Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and since 1998 he is Grand Officer of the Italian Republic.