Sabino Cassese OMRI (born 20 October 1935) is an Italian jurist, former minister for the public function in the Ciampi government (1993–1994), and judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2005–2014).

He has been a member of many ministerial committees and of the governing body of the Italian Central Statistical Office.

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.

Now he is Professor Emeritus at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa where he teaches History of Political Institution.

[2] In 1994, Cassese was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (OMRI).