The Yearbook has, since its founding, become the most important source of reference on global legal issues, which necessarily covers an enormous range of issues and more particularly developments before international tribunals."
M. Cherif Bassiouni, Global Community YILJ, Foreword, 2012 special edition.
Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Emeritus Professor is an internationally recognized expert in international law generally and in international criminal law specifically. 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.
In addition to her impressive Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947-1992) she has authored numerous articles and books in which she has made influential insights into the mew principles of international law. She is one of the most authoritative scholars in the field of global law. Her proudest accomplishment is having founded in 2001 The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, of which she is General Editor. As the
architect of the integrative approach, Ziccardi Capaldo in her book The Pillars of Global Law 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.