Naples, Francesco Paolo Casavola, jurist and president emeritus of the Constitutional Court, has died.

Naples – Professor Francesco Paolo Casavola, President Emeritus of the Constitutional Court and a central figure in twentieth-century Italian legal culture, died overnight. Born in 1931, he would have turned 95 on January 12th.

An internationally renowned jurist, Casavola was a full professor of Roman Law at the University of Naples Federico II, where he also directed the Faculty of Law from 1983 to 1986.

In the same year he was appointed constitutional judge, then assuming the presidency of the Court on 11 November 1992, a position he held until 1995.

Throughout his long institutional and academic career, he has also held leading roles outside the Constitutional Court: in 2006, he was president of the National Committee for Bioethics, while from 1998 to 2009, he led the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia Institute, making a significant contribution to the promotion and dissemination of legal and humanistic knowledge.

Numerous messages of condolence have come from the institutional and academic world. The mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, remembers him as "an illustrious and enlightened jurist," emphasizing the long journey shared within the Federico II academic community: "Naples has educated entire generations of legal scholars," Manfredi writes, "and his intellectual contribution must not be wasted."

Condolences also come from the Campania Order of Journalists, which remembers Casavola as a member of the regional register and as a dedicated and qualified presence in numerous training courses for Campanian journalists. "The Order," a statement read, "extends its condolences to the family in this time of grief."

With the passing of Francesco Paolo Casavola, Italy loses one of its most authoritative interpreters of constitutional and Roman law, capable of combining scientific rigor, institutional vision, and civic commitment.