Justice Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court and Emeritus professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He teaches at the Luiss University - School of Government, Rome. Cassese graduated (October 1956)
summa cum laude in law from the
University of Pisa, where he also studied (1952–1956) at the prestigious Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the
Scuola Normale Superiore (which in 1987 changed its name to
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). He was an assistant professor at the
Universities of Pisa and
Rome and, since 1961, has served as a 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. Cassese has received a doctor
honoris causa degree from eight universities: Aix-en-Provence (1987), Cordoba (1995),
Panthéon-Assas (1998), Castilla-La Mancha (2002), Athens (2002), Macerata (2002), European University Institute of Florence (2010) and Roma La Sapienza (2016). 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
Panthéon-Sorbonne (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 2010), and from 2005 professor at the Master of Public Affairs of the Paris
Institut d’Etudes Politiques. Since 2010 he is also a professor at the Master in International Public Affairs of the LUISS School of Government, and since 2011, a visiting professor at the LL.M. Law in a European and Global Context of the Católica Global School of Law, in Lisbon. He is considered one of the leading experts in administrative law, but he has also carried out research in administrative history and legal thought, science of administration, public law of economics, comparative law and global administrative law. Since 1973, he has been a member and president of numerous study committees of national and international research institutions. In 2004, together with some of his scholars, he founded the
Institute for Research on Public Administration(IRPA), based in Rome. Now he is Professor Emeritus at
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa where he teaches History of Political Institution. As of September 2020, he is a member of the Italian
Aspen Institute. In 1994, Cassese was appointed a
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (OMRI). == Publications ==