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A Conversation with Antonio Cassese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2012

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Abstract

This ‘interview’, prepared posthumously with original material from Judge Antonio Cassese, traces the origins of his academic and professional career. It further attempts to shed some light on Antonio Cassese's multifaceted contributions to the fields of human rights, self-determination, and international criminal law. In particular, it attempts to show in his own words the passion and rigour with which Judge Cassese approached the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as well as its seminal first steps, which marked a resurgence of international criminal justice and paved the way for a host of contemporary international criminal institutions.

Keywords

Cassesehuman rightsICTYinternational criminal lawinternational tribunalspositivismself-determinationSTL
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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND TRIBUNALS
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 815 - 827
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2012

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References

1 B. V. A. Röling and A. Cassese, The Tokyo Trial and Beyond (1993); A. Cassese, Five Masters of International Law (2011).

2 I took the liberty of personally translating excerpts of this book myself.

3 Cassese, A., ‘Soliloquy’, in Cassese, A. (ed.), The Human Dimension of International Law (2008), lix–lxGoogle Scholar.

4 Ibid., at lx–lxiv.

5 A. Cassese, L'esperienza del male (2011), 223–4.

6 This section is excerpted from an unpublished paper in English by Nino aimed at explaining the legal memorandum written by (then) Professor Cassese and Professor Cheli. The memorandum itself is available (in Italian) at www.antoniocassese.it/italiano/reports/home.htm.

7 Cassese, supra note 3, at lxx.

8 Cassess, supra note 5, at 74–5.

9 Ibid., at 75–6.

10 ‘Some Reflections on International Criminal Justice’, speech delivered by A. Cassese in The Hague, on 13 November 2009.

11 Ibid.

12 Sense interview, 15 June 2003.

13 ‘The Judge: Interview with Antonio Cassese’, in H. V. Stuart and M. Simons, The Prosecutor and the Judge: Banjamin Ferenz and Antonio Cassese (2009), 54–5.

14 From Statement by Antonio Cassese, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, on the occasion of the third part of the 2009 Ordinary Session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (Strasbourg, 22–26 June 2009), available at http://assembly.coe.int/Sessions/2009/Speeches/20090624_SpeechCassese.htm.

15 Ibid.

16 Cassese, supra note 5, at 209–10.

17 Ibid., at 248.