Antonio Cassese#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 172 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Antonio Cassese passed away in Florence October 21, 2011.
Positions Held
- 1987 - 1993 Professor of law at the European University Institute
- 1979 - 1980 Visiting fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
- Since 1975 Professor of international law, University of Florence
- 1972 - 1974 Professor of international law, University of Pisa
Fields of Scholarship
- Public international law
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Italian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1972-75), the UN General Assembly (1974, 1975, 1978), and the Geneva Diplomatic Conference on International Humanitarian Law (1974-77)
- Member and Chairman, Council of Europe Steering Committee on Human Rights (1984-88); member and President, Council of Europe Committee against Torture (1989-93)
- Member of the Institut de droit International (1995)
- Judge (1993-2000) and President (1993-1997) of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Doctor in Law honoris causa, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (1998), University of Paris X (1999), University of Geneva (2000); University of Athens (2006)
- 1997 Robert G. Storey Award for Leadership, South-Western Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas
- 2002 International Prize granted by the "Académie Universelle des Cultures"
- 2007 the Wolfgang Friedmann Award, Columbia University Law School, New York
- 2009 the Erasmus Prize, Erasmus Foundation, Amsterdam, together with Nuremberg
- 2010 the Antonio Feltrinelli prize by the Italian Accademia dei Lincei, Roma
