Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Salerno, is internationally renowned as a pioneer of global law and global community. As the architect of the integrative approach to global governance, she has offered creative solutions on the legal aspects of integrated decision-making processes. In her book The Pillars of Global Law (2008) she pioneered her vision of global constitutionalism based on the idea of securing globally shared governance in terms of a constitutional democracy, as well as global constitutional principles within the human community as a whole.
In addition to her impressive Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947-1992), published in 1995, she is the author or editor of some 49 books and numerous academic journal articles. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Criminal Law Series and is included among the prominent internationalists who gave significant contributions to the matter in Who's Who in Public International Law. Her proudest accomplishment is having founded in 2001 The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, of which she is General Editor.