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This School directed to teachings concerning supranational issuesProf. Sabino Cassese, President of the European Scienti c Council of the EPLO, Member of the Board of Trustees of the ELGSProf. Sabino Cassese, President of theEuropean Scienti c Council of the EPLO and Member of the Board of Trustees of the ELGS, focused on the needs for jurists to receive a traininig that is not purely national.which strengthens the “nationalist” approach to the understanding and teaching of law"."Having often studied in a foreign country, they also know the law of another country and they know how to compare it to the law of their own country. But they are “jurists of self-suf cient countries”, as our great comparatist Rodolfo Sacco wrote, prisoners of what Raymond Saleilles called “mystical positivism”. They belong to different national legal cultures that only dialogue in order to compare themselves and to af rm their differences."Every day”, said Prof. Cassese, “hundreds ofjurists from different countries meet in Brussels,at the European Union’s of ces, in Geneva, at theof ces of the World Trade Organization or of theInternational Labor Organization, or in New York,in the United Nations, or in Los Angeles at theof ces of the “Internet Corporation for AssignedNames and Numbers”, to adopt rules that are notlaws or regulations, which do not derive from theStates, but which, however, have a legal value,since they address millions of people and arebinding". area of Political Science, conceived as the studyHere you see where the need for a training that is not purely nationalistic originates from - a training which is not strictly legal, because what I have said about the law can be applied to the"But these jurists receive a training that isexclusively national: they studied in the UnitedStates, in France, in Germany, in Italy. Theyhave been taught the national law and they were in Madrid, in Versailles, in Oldenburg, and also taught that the law can only be national and that in the Italian Trento, now in this School, soon atof politics within the State -. This is why there are already many initiatives, such as those in Paris, in Tilburg and in Maastricht, in Valencia,one can go beyond the borders only to study the connections between legal orders (the law that we call international), or to make comparisons,the European University, directed at integrating national teachings with teachings concerning supranational issues".ACTIVITY REPORT 2016 43