Fausto Cuocolo


Fausto Cuocolo was an Italian jurist and politician. Cuocolo was amongst the most important Italian constitutionalist and one of the "fathers" of the Italian regionalism.

Life and Academics

When he was a student at Liceo Classico Giuseppe Mazzini in Genoa, he was actively involved in the fight against the Nazi-Fascismus. Later, he got a degree in Law in Genova at age of 22 and in Political Science also two years later also with the highest mark and Laude for both. He became a member of the Democrazia Cristiana Italian party and of European JEF in Paris.
In 1960 Cuocolo became Professor of Constitutional Law and in 1967 he published "La legge cornice nel rapporto tra Stato e Regione", one of the most important books for the Italian regionalism. The most important amongst his books however is Istituzioni di diritto pubblico, a very common book in the Italian Law Schools. In 1970 Cuocolo was appointed Director of Political Science Faculty in Genova.

Italian Regionalismus

Since the 50s Cuocolo made intense efforts in targeting the Italian Constitution in the direction of Regionalismus through many essayes, papers and monographies. Prof. Cuocolo was also involved in the Statuto of the Regione Liguria, since before the birth of the region itself as a new public body.

Political life

Furthermore, Cuocolo was involved in several prominent positions in the Italian public administration, in Liguria and at the national level: e.g. he worked as a Law consultant for Italian Prime Ministers as Francesco Cossiga and others, and for the Council of Europe.

The Brigate Rosse attack

The May 31, 1979 Prof. Cuocolo was attacked by the Brigate Rosse in his University during an exam: this was the first attack of the Brigate Rosse in a University. In 1981 a second attempt of attack was foiled on time by the Italian police.

Banks

Cuocolo was also appointed Chief of Fondazione Carige and then of Banca Carige. However, he left the position in 2003 after having criticized some activities of the Bank.

Books

Cuocolo wrote more than 160 paper plus 19 monographies. Amongst them:
About Prof. Fausto Cuocolo heritage in Law was published also the book: