AUTHOR'S BIO
Antonio Cassese
Antonio Cassese, the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and later the Chairperson of the United Nations' International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, teaches law at the University of Florence.
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The Wolf that Ate Georgia
Antonio Cassese Series: Europe at Home and Abroad 2008-08-29In Phaedrus’s well-known fable of the wolf and the lamb, the wolf easily could have eaten the lamb without a word, but prefers to set out his “reasons.” After invading Georgia Russia has done likewise, and its justifications are just as empty.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 9840
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Flawed International Justice for Sudan
Antonio Cassese Series: The World in Words 2008-07-15Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir leads a group of political and military leaders that is clearly responsible for the serious and large-scale crimes committed daily against Sudanese citizens in Darfur. But the decision to seek an international arrest warrant against al-Bashir is likely to do more harm than good.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10001
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Flawed International Justice for Sudan
Antonio Cassese Series: The World in Words 2008-07-15Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir leads a group of political and military leaders that is clearly responsible for the serious and large-scale crimes committed daily against Sudanese citizens in Darfur. But the decision to seek an international arrest warrant against al-Bashir is likely to do more harm than good.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 1714
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A Confederation for Kosovo
Antonio Cassese Series: The World in Words 2007-09-26While Kosovo's demand for independence now seems irreconcilable with Serbia's determination to maintain sovereignty--possibly by force--it is not too late for compromise. But this is possible only by resuscitating an old institution of the international community: a confederation of states.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 7538
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Beyond the Death Penalty Debate
Antonio Cassese Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2007-06-29The debate on capital punishment boils down to an exchange of conflicting ethical and utilitarian views. But, given the prevalence of state-sponsored wars, massacre, and starvation, not to mention prison conditions that often drive inmates to suicide, opponents of the death penalty should not regard its abolition as an end in itself.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11023
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The Judicial Massacre of Srebrenica
Antonio Cassese Series: Human Rights 2007-02-27The judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning Serbia’s involvement in the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 should be greeted with considerable ambivalence. On the one hand, the fact that an international tribunal has pronounced on the responsibility of a state in the matter of genocide is an undeniably positive development. On the other hand, however, the Court’s decision is one of those judicial pronouncements that attempts to give something to everybody and leave everything as it was.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10449
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