Realizing Utopia

Antonio Cassese was Professor of International Law at the University of Florence until 2008. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International, and former President of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture. He was the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), serving in this capacity from 1993 to 1997 and then as the presiding judge of trial chambers until 2000. In October 2004, Cassese was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to be the Chairperson of the UN International Commission of Enquiry into Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Darfur. In 2006 the United Nations Secretary-General appointed him as an independent expert tasked to review the judicial efficiency of the Special Court of Sierra Leone. In March 2009 Cassese was appointed by United Nations as judge for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) where he was elected President of the Tribunal.

I. CAN THE WORLD BECOME A GLOBAL COMMUNITY?; II. WHAT ROLE FOR LAW-MAKING?; III. CAN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL IMPERATIVES BE MORE EFFECTIVELY BROUGHT INTO EFFECT?; (A) THE INTERPLAY OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LAW; (B) MECHANISMS FOR INDUCING STATES' COMPLIANCE; (C) THE ROLE OF JUDICIAL BODIES; (D) SUPERVISION AND FACT-FINDING AS ALTERNATIVES TO JUDICIAL REVIEW; 4. OLD AND NEW CATEGORIES OF LAWFUL USE OF FORCE; 5. GLOBAL PROBLEMS THAT ARE BADLY IN NEED OF SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL REGULATION; 6. RESTRAINING ARMED VIOLENCE IN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNAL ARMED CONFLICTS; 7. THE ROLE OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL JUSTICE; 8. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION