Curriculum Vitae

Paul J. du Plessis

CURRICULUM VITAE

A. GENERAL

1. Name:

Paul J. du Plessis

2. School:

School of Law, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

University Staff Profile: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/pauljduplessis

Academia.edu Profile: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/PaulduPlessis

3. College:

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

4. Date of First Appointment in The University of Edinburgh:

August 2002

5. Date of Promotion in The University of Edinburgh:

August 2017 (Professor)

August 2009 (Senior Lecturer)

6. Career since Graduation:

Professor of Roman law, School of Law, The University of Edinburgh (2017 – present)

Senior Lecturer, School of Law, The University of Edinburgh (2009 – 2017)

Lecturer, School of Law, The University of Edinburgh (2002 – 2008)

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of South Africa (2001 – 2002)

Lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of South Africa (2000 – 2001)

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7. University Education:

PhD Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 2000 [Jan] – 2003 [Oct]

Award: Successful Completion Specialisation: Roman law, Comparative law, European Legal History Thesis title: A History of remissio mercedis and Related Legal Institutions (Rotterdam, 2003) Supervisor: Professor Laurens Winkel

MA Potchefstroom University (Potchefstroom, South Africa) 1999 [Jan – Dec]

Award: cum laude Specialisation: Medieval Legal Latin Dissertation title: The Tractatus de Fluminibus seu Tyberiadis (book 1) of Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Translation and Commentary

LLB Potchefstroom University (Potchefstroom, South Africa) 1996 [Jan] – 1998 [Dec]

Award: cum laude Specialisation: Law

BA (Hons) Potchefstroom University (Potchefstroom, South Africa) 1996 [Jan] – 1997 [Dec]

Award: cum laude Specialisation: Latin Language and Literature

BJuris Potchefstroom University (Potchefstroom, South Africa) 1993 [Jan] – 1995 [Dec]

Award: cum laude Specialisation: Law

B. TEACHING

8. Teaching experience:

I have completed the Professional Certificate in University Teaching at The University of Edinburgh and I have taught at undergraduate (ordinary and honours) and postgraduate levels throughout my academic career. During this time, I have acted as course organiser for classes up to 130 students:

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Undergraduate level:

• Reasoning using Civilian Authority (2016/17 – present) Format of course: a third/fourth-year honours option Topics taught: use of historical materials in court decisions – pitfalls and practices

• Trade, Commerce and Society in the Roman Empire (2014/15 – present) Format of course: a third/fourth-year honours option Topics taught: the law of transport; indirect agency using free and slave agents; banking

• Comparative law (Honours) – Seminars (2010/11) Format of course: a third/fourth-year honours option Topics taught: the history of the subject; the use of Roman and comparative law in the harmonisation of private law in Europe

• International Private law (Honours) – Seminars (2009/10 – 2010/11) Format of course: a third/fourth-year honours option Topics taught: the history of the subject; the law of contract

• International Private law (Ordinary) – Lectures and tutorials (2010/11) Format of course: a second-year ordinary option Topics taught: the history of the subject; the law of contract

• Civil law (Honours) – Seminars (2002 – present) Format of course: a third/fourth-year honours option Topics taught: archaic Roman law (nexum), a courtroom oration of Cicero (Pro Caecina) and the Lex Aquilia (in alternate years also the use of Roman law in Scottish court decisions)

• Civil law (Ordinary) – Lectures and tutorials (2002 – present) Format of course: a first-year elective Topics taught: the history and institutions of Roman private law (persons, property, obligations)

Postgraduate level:

• Anatomy of Civil law/Ancient Law: Models and Concepts (Masters) – Seminars (2013/14 – present) Format of course: an elective in the LLM in History and Philosophy of law Topics taught: The course is concerned with Roman law at an advanced level and consists of capita selecta (Theft, Insult, Sale)

• Anatomy of Private law (Masters) – Seminars (2010/11 – 2012/13) Format of course: an elective in the LLM in History and Philosophy of law. The course is concerned with the historical growth of various areas of private law in Europe using Roman law and elements of medieval and early modern law to explain these developments.

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Topics taught: aspects of the law of contract (the rise of a general principle of contract) and of property (the protection of possession)

• Traditions of Legal Enquiry (Masters) – Seminars (2009/10 – 2012/13) Format of course: a compulsory course in the LLM in History and Philosophy of law. The course is concerned with the methodologies of legal historical research and the contemporary debates surrounding the place and function of legal history for the study of modern law. Topics taught: methodologies of legal history; contemporary debates in legal history; legal history and postmodernism; legal history and the harmonisation of private law in Europe

• Contract law in Europe (Masters) – Seminars (2009/10 – 2012/13) Format of course: an elective in the LLM in Commercial law dealing with aspects of contract law in a European context Topics taught: the harmonisation of contract law in Europe

Teaching Narrative:

Reorganisation of Teaching at Subject Area Level

In 2014, following the appointment of a new lecturer in European legal history and the reorganisation of teaching at honours level in the School of Law (from full-year to one-semester courses), it was decided to revisit the honours options in the fields of Civil Law/Legal History with a view not only to broaden the range of offerings, but also to explore new forms of assessment and to embed these into the new offerings. A further aim was to make these new courses more appealing to students from elsewhere in the College, thereby reinforcing our links with related subject areas in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and fostering a greater sense of interdisciplinarity across the College. It was agreed at subject area level that I would take the lead in this process and that I would assist colleagues with reconfiguring existing honours offerings as well as with development of new courses (taking research-teaching linkages as our starting point). At the start of this project, in 2014, the subject area had three full-year honours courses (Civil law honours; History of Scots law; and European legal history) on offer and were running two of these annually (Civil law honours and either History of Scots law or European legal history). These were assessed using the conventional methods in the School of Law at this time, namely by way of summative essay and degree exam. Following consultation with my colleagues, I devised a new suite of honours courses that more closely aligned with their own research fields. Thus, in the case of Professor Cairns, courses were designed around the themes of Humanism and the Enlightenment, lords and vassals in medieval Scotland, book collecting and the centralisation of justice in the early modern period in Scotland. In the case of Dr Rossi, courses were designed around the topic of the rise of commercial law in the early modern period, as well as concerning the Papacy and ideas of sovereignty in Medieval

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Europe. In my own field, I augmented my existing honours offerings with specialised courses on commerce and succession in the Roman Empire to complement my own research fields. Course design not only involved the selection of topics, but also the preparing of new reading lists and choice of both formative and summative assessment. The suite of offerings now includes ten specialised honours offerings (one-semester). It has taken a number of years to roll out the entire suite of courses since approval had to be sought through the Board of Studies. These have all now been implemented in the School of Law and have proved popular with the students both in Law and elsewhere in the College. In designing these courses and in reformulating existing offerings, I have taken the lead in having discussions with colleagues concerning different forms of assessment as well as the use of formative methods such as class participation and feedback sessions. To that end, the entire suite of courses now on offer at honours level uses a combination of formative and summative assessments that are based on best practice elsewhere in the School and are specifically designed to foster student learning (position papers, class discussions etc.) while at the same time managing staff workload effectively.

Development of New Postgraduate Programmes

In 2010, the School of Law elected to create an LLM by Research in History and Philosophy of Law. In consultation with colleagues in Legal Theory, I developed the structure of the programme and decided on the core and elective modules to be offered. Under my direction, as Programme Director from the creation of the programme until 2014 (when the role was taken over by Dr Rossi), I dealt with admission queries, student selection, course offerings and allocation of dissertation supervision. It is a vibrant programme and had acted as a successful conduit for the recruiting of new PhD students in both fields.

Development of Innovative Teaching

At ordinary level, as course organiser for Civil Law, I have introduced a number of changes to the course as a result of staff, tutor and student feedback. First, I have redesigned the formative assessment in the course to achieve a better fit with the course lectures. This type of assessment is now used to provide students with summative assessment practice (using past exam questions to demonstrate the different types of question and how to approach these). Related to this, I have overhauled feedback practices for both formative and summative assessment in this course. Tutors are now supplied with detailed memoranda and guidance on how to provide good feedback. This is augmented by general formative and summative feedback posted on the course page. In second place, since 2009/10, I have introduced a series of comprehensive slide presentations as well as podcasts of lectures to assist students in getting the most value out of the large group lecture environment. These are posted online. In third place, I have taken over the editing of Borkowski’s Textbook on Roman

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law, the most widely used textbook on the subject in the English-speaking world with a print-run of more than 10 000 copies (over two editions) (a third has recently been published). The book has been very favourably reviewed with one reviewer mentioning: ‘The overwhelming merit of this book is the way in which throughout it reduces seemingly intractable complexity to clarity (The Classical Review).’ During the course of three editions, I have overhauled the textbook comprehensively (both in terms of content as well as in terms of citation to modern literature) and have added a widely used Online Resource Centre (with an interactive timeline, glossary of terms, interactive multiple-choice questions, essay-style questions and exam preparation strategies). http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/law/roman/borkowski5e/ At honours level, as course organiser for Civil Law, I have begun to use podcasts as a way of delivering general feedback on formative assessment to a group of students. Together with my colleagues in the subject area, I have developed a model of summative assessment for one- semester honours courses (a combination of position papers and smaller essays) tailored to the nature of the subject area (legal history). In light of the success of this model, I intend to use it also in future offerings at honours and masters level. In 2010 I was approached by Bloomsbury Academic to write a nutshell guide to the study of Roman law aimed at sixth-formers and those wishing to obtain a basic account of the sources, methods and pitfalls of the study of Roman law without delving into a technical account. The result, Studying Roman law (Bloomsbury Academic 2012), has been favourable reviewed, with one reviewer remarking: ‘…this book is clearly eminently suitable for the late school/early university audience of Classical Civilization students at whom it is aimed. It could also be recommended as introductory reading for law students about to take Roman law options – they will fully appreciate the significance of the comparative remarks.’ (P. Mitchell, Classical Review, 2013, 533 – 4).

9. Number of Taught Postgraduate Students Supervised:

I have supervised two candidates on the LL.M by Research to successful completion. I have also supervised three candidates in the LL.M in Legal History and Legal Theory to successful completion.

C. RESEARCH INTERESTS

10. Major Research Interests:

My main field of research is Roman private law (primarily the law of property and obligations). I am also interested in medieval learned law (the use of Roman law in the formation of the medieval ius commune) and comparative law (the use of Roman law in the harmonisation of law in Europe) to the extent that it informs modern understanding of Roman law. Secondary research interests include European Legal History, Conflict of

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Laws, Socio-Legal Studies, Law and Economics, primarily in as much as these relate to Roman law. I have made a substantial and sustained contribution to Roman-law scholarship in the fields of property and obligations and I am internationally known for my work on leases and on real security. I also have a growing international reputation arising from my work on “law and society” in the Roman world.

Research Area:

Introduction

The focus of my research is Roman private law. In my publications I have concentrated on the law of contracts and, more specifically, on the group of consensual contracts in Roman law. A core theme running through these publications is the nature and function of consensus as a constitutive element of these contracts with a view to contributing to the larger debate about reciprocity and its function within the context of consensus. I have not only focused on the realm of the law when exploring consensus, but have looked also to examples of legal practice to illustrate the practical meaning of this concept in the Roman legal mind. As a result of my work on contract, I have also become interested in the interfaces between contract and delict in Roman law. To that end, I have published on aspects of the law of delict, specifically insult and wrongful damage to property, with a view to establishing the principles behind concurrence of actions and choice of remedies. In these publications, I have focused specifically on the Roman- law approach to vicarious insult of the master through his slaves and on the contractual aspects (the use of slaves installed in business or residential premises) giving rise to wrongful damage to property. This forms part of a more general theme on ‘networks of association’ in the ancient world and its impact on the development of the commercial aspects of the Roman law of contracts. A third strand of my research has focused on the interface between contract and property. Here I have focused on real security as a means to secure the payment of debt and I have specifically examined the suitability of living objects (such as slaves and beasts of burden) as objects of real security. This forms part of a more general theme on the rise and function of real security in the context of Roman commerce.

Research Approach

It is my belief that the study of Roman law should be informed by (although not dominated by) a wide variety of disciplines, both ancient and modern. I view Roman law not as a set of abstract intellectual constructs, devoid of any context, that function together harmoniously in a gapless system, but as a cultural artefact produced by and for a specific society and engaging with that society in a variety of different ways. To that end, my approach to Roman law may be described as a ‘Law and …’ or a legal realist approach to the study of Roman law. It is my fundamental premise that the rules and norms of Roman law can only be properly understood and explained with

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reference to the societal, economic and cultural factors that affected Roman society and their empire.

Early Research

As a scholar trained in a non-codified legal system in which Roman law is said to be a persuasive (yet not binding) part of its ‘common law’, I was initially drawn to the idea of the ‘civilian tradition’ – that is tracing the retention or abolition of Roman-law rules through centuries of legal development from the scientific rediscovery of Roman law in twelfth- century Italy to the eventual codification of the legal systems of Europe during the course of the nineteenth century. This can be seen in a number of my earlier works in which I traced specific rules of law through successive periods of ‘reception’ into modern civil-law systems. As my research in this field developed, however, I became interested in the question of the historical validity of this methodology after reading the work of Reinhard Zimmermann and his views on the contemporary relevance of Roman law. It seemed to me that, unlike its originator and protagonist, many supporters of this methodology utilised it incautiously to construct genealogies of legal rules from Roman to modern law with little attention being paid to the larger social, economic and cultural factors that determined the survival or demise of Roman law in the legal systems of Europe. Not only did this lead to the rise of certain tenacious “fictions” regarding the state of modern civil law, but it also affected modern debate about the specific function of Roman law and how it should be taught in a modern Law School. It also became apparent to me that the fundamental premise of this approach was to view law in a positivist manner as a set of rules unaffected by societal concerns. This view was incompatible with my personal understanding of the nature of law for two reasons. Not only was this view based on a nineteenth-century German view of the nature of law generally, but it was also out of step with modern legal realist views of law prevalent in many Law Schools in Europe and elsewhere.

Current Research

Since 2005 I have focused on the development of a new paradigm for the study of Roman law. This developed out of an initial interest in documentary evidence of Roman legal practice and its relationship to the abstract rules of Roman law. My approach is squarely rooted in the ‘law and society’ movement and takes as its fundamental premise that Roman law can only be properly understood when viewed in the context of the society that created it. I have taken elements of the modern ‘law and society’ method, formulated in the context of the legal realism movement in the United States of America during the past century, and I have tested these in the context of the existing source material of Roman law to establish whether it is possible to undertake a ‘law and society’ – style analysis of Roman law. The results have been promising, but I have also come to the realisation that for this methodology to succeed, a greater dialogue between Roman law and related disciplines is required. To that

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end, I have devoted considerable effort to creating a meaningful and respectful dialogue between scholars of Roman law and those in the fields of Classics and Ancient History through the hosting of workshops, research-network meetings and conferences. These events have all been united by a single golden thread – to identify and analyse the complex and continuing relationships between law and society, broadly conceived, and to assess whether elements of the ‘law and society’ methods used in modern law may be used to enhance modern understanding of Roman law. This theme has been explored in a number of articles and book chapters, but the edited collections arising from expert conferences that I have organised have had the biggest international impact. The first edited collection, Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (2007), was hailed by one reviewer as: ‘… [a] new and valuable contribution to this fascinating debate.’ (D. Kleyn, Edinburgh Law Review, 2008 (vol. 12), 330- 1). While the second edited collection, New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (2013), was described by one reviewer as ‘a valuable book’ [M. Peachin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2013) while another, the holder of a Regius Chair in Roman law at Oxford remarked: ‘It was a very valuable initiative of the editor to bring these contributions together and I hope these New Frontiers will be explored further in a second volume.’ (B.Sirks, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, 2014). Apart from these, two of my other endeavours in this regard deserve specific mention. The first is the creation of an interdisciplinary monograph series – Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law, aimed at showcasing the benefits of exploring a ‘law and society’ approach to Roman law. Two books have been published thus far in this series. The first won prizes both in Europe and the United States of America, while the second was favourably reviewed in major journals. The other is the Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society, of which I am the editor in chief, and which was published in early 2016. I am currently engaged in a number of projects relating to both Roman law and European legal history. In the field of Roman law, I have organised an international conference on early Roman law, while in the field of European legal history I am in process of arranging a conference on Pandectism. In my own scholarship, I intend to focus during my next sabbatical on a monograph devoted to property law.

Future Research

I am passionate about the long-term intellectual survival and growth of Roman law in the United Kingdom and in the English-speaking world more generally. It is my belief that there exists a uniquely ‘British’ method of studying and writing about Roman law that has not yet fully received the recognition that it deserves. This method not only consists of a close reading of the texts, but also involves being more open to the premises, methods and conclusions of related disciplines such as Classics and Ancient History. This ‘British’ method has the potential to act as a conduit between these two disciplines and I intend to explore aspects of it in future research projects.

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Research Grants:

External to The University of Edinburgh:

Journal of Legal History (The United Kingdom) £ 5 000 (2017) (Family law(s) in the Roman Empire Project) Role: Principal Investigator In 2016 I was awarded a grant to organise a workshop in Edinburgh along the theme of legal pluralism in the Roman Empire. The workshop was held in conjunction with the University of Tel Aviv. The Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies (The United Kingdom) also contributed a small donation to this conference. The papers have been edited and will appear in 2019/2020 as a special edition of the Journal of Legal History.

National Research Foundation (South Africa) £5 000 (2015) (Custom and Oral History Project) Role: Principal Investigator In 2015 I was awarded a grant to organise a workshop in South Africa on the theme of “Custom and Oral History: Rewriting South African Legal History”. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts working on African customary law (both from inside and outside South Africa) to debate the future narratives of South African legal history, in light of recent statements by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, concerning the importance of custom and oral history. Proceedings of the conference have been published in a special edition of the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal of which I acted as guest editor for this issue.

Internal to The University of Edinburgh:

Strategic Investment Fund Grant (University of Edinburgh) £5 000 (2016) (Early Roman Law Project) Role: Principal Investigator In 2016 I successfully applied and received a Strategic Investment Fund Grant from the School of Law to host a closed author conference in the context of an Early Roman law Project undertaken jointly with Northern Illinois University. The papers are currently being edited and will appear in early 2020 in a book edited by myself and Dr Sinclair Bell through Edinburgh University Press.

Strategic Investment Fund Grant (University of Edinburgh) £5 000 (2014) (Oxford Handbook Project) Role: Principal Investigator In 2014 I successfully applied and received a Strategic Investment Fund Grant from the School of Law to host a closed author conference in the context of the Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society of which I am the Editor in Chief. These funds were augmented by successful grants from the Edinburgh Legal Education Trust (£1000) and the Socio-Legal Studies Association (United Kingdom) (£500). The conference led to the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (2016).

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Strategic Investment Fund Grant (University of Edinburgh) £10 000 (2010) (Legal Humanism Project) Role: Co-Investigator In 2010, together with my colleague, John W. Cairns, I successfully applied for and received a Strategic Investment Fund Grant from the School of Law to host a closed international expert conference on the topic of ‘Legal Humanism’. The conference led to the publication of an edited volume entitled Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims: Petere Fontes? (2015) in the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series.

Strategic Investment Fund Grant (University of Edinburgh) £10 000 (2008) (Medieval Learned Law Project) Role: Co-Investigator In 2007, together with my colleague, John W. Cairns, I successfully applied for and received a Strategic Investment Fund Grant from the School of Law to host a closed international expert conference on the topic of ‘Medieval Learned Law’. The conference led to the publication of an edited volume entitled From Casus to Regula: The Creation of the Ius Commune (2010) in the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series.

Small Project Research Grant (University of Edinburgh) £ 5 000 (2005) (Roman law and Society Project) Role: Co-Investigator In 2005, together with my colleague, John W. Cairns, I successfully applied for and received a Small Project Research Grant from the School of Law to host a closed international expert conference on the topic of ‘Law and Society in the Roman World’. The conference led to the publication of an edited volume entitled Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (2007) in the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series.

11. Research Supervision Experience:

I have completed PhD supervision training at The University of Edinburgh and, given the interdisciplinary nature of much of my work, I have acquired extensive supervision experience, both in the School of Law and outwith, especially in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

PhD students supervised to completion:

Peter Candy: Roman Maritime Law: an Economic Analysis. (2nd year) Role: Principal Supervisor.

Paul Burgess: The Problems and Solutions of Change in Conceptions of the Rule of Law in the Seventeenth Century: Evolution or Revolution? Role: Primary Supervisor.

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Asya Ostroukh: The Reception of the French Civil Code in Quebec, Louisiana and Francophone Swiss Cantons: a Socio-Legal Study. Role: Second Supervisor.

Amy Bratton: Slaves and Freedmen in Augustan Social Legislation. Role: Second Supervisor.

Ilya Kotlyar: The Influence of the “ius commune” on the Scottish Judicial Practice of Succession to Movables: 1560-1660. Role: Second Supervisor.

Jasmin Hepburn: Nicholas Bohier (1469 – 1539) and the ius commune: a study in sixteenth-century French legal practice. Role: Principal Supervisor.

Jonathan Horton: The Limits of Legislation as a Source of Law – a Historical and Comparative Analysis. Role: Principal Supervisor.

Munin Pongsapan: The Reception of Foreign Private Law in Thailand in 1925: a Case Study of Specific Performance (2013). Role: Principal Supervisor.

Juan Lewis: What’s a vicarius? Or How ‘true meaning’ can Mislead You: the Development and Typology of Subowned Slavery in Rome (212 BC – AD 235) (2013). Role: Second Supervisor.

Karen Baston: The Library of Charles Areskine (1680 – 1763): Scottish Lawyers and Book Collecting, 1700 – 1760 (2012). Role: Second Supervisor.

Adelyn Wilson: The Sources and Method of the Institutions of the Law of Scotland by Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair with Specific Reference to the Law of Obligations (2011). Role: Second Supervisor.

PhD students currently under supervision:

Neophytos Christodoulides: The ius possidendi in Pandectist Thought (1st year) Role: First Supervisor.

Colin Bathgate: The Creation of Ownership in Scottish Legal Thought (1st year) Role: Second Supervisor.

Kane Abry-Diaw de Baye: The will and consent theories as a general principle of contract: Lesson from Scotland and France. (2nd year) Role: Second Supervisor.

Maria Jésus Ithurria Benavente: The actiones redhibitoria and quanti minoris in the Chilean Civil Code: an Historical Investigation. (2nd year) Role: Second Supervisor.

Jonathan Ainslie: Legal and Economic Change during the Third Century: a Story of “Crisis”. (3rd year) Role: Second Supervisor.

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D. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND IMPACT

12. Contribution to Knowledge Exchange and Impact

Direct contribution:

Since much of my work is of an interdisciplinary nature and is of interest both to scholars of Roman law and to scholars studying the social and economic history of the Greco-Roman world, the dissemination of my research beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries has been an important consideration throughout my academic career. While the traditional definition of “knowledge exchange and impact” focuses on the wider dissemination of research beyond academia, in my case this also involves an engagement with a wider community in various different research fields concerned with the study of the ancient world. The following is a representative sample of my main direct contributions to knowledge exchange and impact. I have appeared on “In our time” (BBC Radio 4) to discuss the impact and significance of the Justinianic compilation of Roman law on the development of law in Western Europe. I was the driving force behind the creation of the Edinburgh Legal History Blog (http://www.elhblog.law.ed.ac.uk), an award-winning blog devoted to the dissemination of information concerning Roman law and legal history (both Scottish and European). The blog has a considerable following around the world and posts are invariably picked up by other blogs and email lists in the field. I use this blog on a regular bases, often as much as once a week, to announce the publication of important new books/journals in the field as well as to alert the wider community to grant and job opportunities where they arise. The blog also utilises a twitter account linked to the Centre for Legal History through which new blog posts are announced. The twitter account is followed by a large number of scholars (1498 by last count) from different fields across the world. As far as my own research is concerned, I have taken to use a combination of twitter and the academia.edu site to disseminate my research to the wider public. I maintain an active twitter account (@SententiaePauli) that I use not only to announce new publications, but also to tweet about new discoveries in the field of Roman law and the Roman world more generally. The account has a healthy following (1353 by last count) and the items listed there are often picked up by other accounts. In addition, I use a personal profile on academia.edu to disseminate my most important research. I have a healthy following on this site (1013 by last count) across a wide range of historical disciplines from across the world and, to date, I have attracted 18265 views, placing me in the top 2% of views on this site.

Leadership in Knowledge Exchange:

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In 2019. I organised the SIHDA conference in Edinburgh. It is the premier conference on Roman law in the world and attracts a range of international scholars. The conference budget was in excess of £ 100 000 and the number of attendees was c 135. In 2017 I organised a workshop in Edinburgh along the theme of legal pluralism in the Roman Empire. The workshop was held in conjunction with the University of Tel Aviv. In 2016 I hosted a closed “invitation only” conference in the context of an Early Roman law Project undertaken jointly with Northern Illinois University. In 2016, I organised a workshop in South Africa, funded by the National Research Foundation (SA), on the topic of custom and oral history in South African law. This workshop brought together stakeholders from both provincial and national levels of government (traditional leaders) and academics to debate the future shape of South African legal history. In 2015, I successfully applied (Co-Investigator) to the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities: Cohort Development Fund Application 2014-15 together with Professor Catherine Steel (Glasgow) to host a one-day colloquium: Roman law for Classicists and Ancient Historians at Glasgow University. The colloquium took place in April 2015 at The University of Glasgow. In 2014, I organised (Co-Investigator) a one-day international workshop (together with Dr Sasamoto-Collins, Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh) on The Reception of Western Law in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. (20 June 2014) The aim of this workshop was to bring together scholars from the United Kingdom and Europe working on the reception of Western law in Japan with a view to exploring the theme of Alan Watson’s Legal Transplants with reference to Japan, one of the dominant legal cultures of the East. I am the creator and co-director (with Dr Roth in Classics) of the Interdisciplinary Research Network – Ancient Law in Context [co-hosted with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.] The network meets once per semester to discuss papers around an agreed theme. (2012/13 – present). I regard this as one of my proudest achievements in the spirit of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ancient law. Since the inception of this network, it has grown from strength to strength and has attracted scholars from across the United Kingdom (and even as far afield as the United States). As a convivial forum accessible to both young and established scholars in the field, it has also provided the former with the opportunity to form new links. Thus far, it has also lead to the appointment of three younger scholars frequenting these meetings to academic positions in the United Kingdom (where jobs of this kind are few and far between): https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and- networks/centre-for-legal-history Since 2010 I have been employed as expert grant proposal reviewer for The Polish National Science Centre and The Czech Science Foundation. In both cases, I have been approached to act as expert grant reviewer in the

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historical sciences based on my international reputation in the field. As a rule, funding bids to these bodies consist of very large projects (often in excess of a million euros) that have to be scrutinised in detail (not only for their academic merit, but also for budgetary considerations). It is an explicit aim of both funding bodies to elevate the level of research in each of these countries and to ensure that research funded is of the highest international quality. Furthermore, all research funded by these funding bodies has an explicit knowledge exchange and impact component that expert reviewers are asked to comment upon. In 2008, I acted as a consultant to the celebrated author Ruth Downie, whose fiction regarding the life and times of a Roman physician has featured on the New York Times Bestseller List, for information about Roman law for her 2009 book, Persona non grata (Bloomsbury 2009). I am listed in the acknowledgements at the end of the book.

E. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CITIZENSHIP

I am committed to the notion of service both within the School of Law as well as the wider university community. The following is a list of roles that I have undertaken during my time at the University of Edinburgh. This is followed by an exposition of the main organisational outputs achieved in these roles.

13. Academic Leadership and Management Experience:

Since 2017, I have taken on the role of the Convener of the Student Discipline Committee at University level. Since August 2016, I have taken over the roles of subject area head of legal history in the School of Law. I have also assumed the role of director of the Centre for Legal History at the same time. Since the restoration of the centre in 2009, I have played an active role in the life of the Centre for Legal History as outline below:

Leadership and Management Narrative:

I am the creator and convener of the Henry Goudy Seminar in Roman law, a reading group open to members of staff and students interested in Roman law. The group meets once per month to discuss a work from classical antiquity. (2013/14 – present). https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and- networks/centre-for-legal-history I am the creator and co-director (with Dr Roth in Classics) of the Interdisciplinary Research Network – Ancient Law in Context [co-hosted with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.] The network meets once per semester to discuss papers around an agreed theme. (2012/13 – present).

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https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and- networks/centre-for-legal-history I am the sometime webmaster of the website of the Centre for Legal History and of the Edinburgh Roman Law Group. (2007/08 – present) https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and- networks/centre-for-legal-history

I am the creator and co-author (with Professor Cairns) of the Edinburgh Legal History Blog – a widely followed blog on matters relating to legal history, Roman law and the History of Scots law. (2007/08 – present) https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and- networks/centre-for-legal-history

I am the convener of the Edinburgh Roman law Group, a prestigious interdisciplinary discussion forum for students of Roman law. (2004/05 – present) Two meetings are held annually. Prominent scholars in the field are invited to give a paper. https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and- networks/centre-for-legal-history

I have successfully undertaken a number of initiatives to increase the international profile of the School of law in relation to the study of Roman law and legal history more generally. I was the driving force behind the resurrection of the centre for legal history that, until my arrival, had lain largely dormant. Through my initiatives (outlined below), the centre has expanded its activities substantially and has become the foremost centre for the study of legal history in the United Kingdom if not the world. Three initiatives are particularly worth noting. The first is a series of expert conferences and resulting edited collections on the narratives of European legal history. Together with my colleague, Professor Cairns, we are in the process of systematically rewriting the existing narrative of European legal history one period at a time. The resulting books (Beyond Dogmatics 2007, From Casus to Regula 2010 and Legal Humanism 2015) have had a significant impact on the field and have become bestsellers in the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series in which they were published. One reviewer remarked regarding the 2010 volume: ‘we may learn from this book how much there is still to be discovered about the medieval reception of Roman law when one takes the trouble of going into detail…’ (T.Wallinga, Edinburgh Law Review, 2012) while another observed: ‘Gerade in seiner Vielstimmigkeit bietet er eine glänzende Einführung in das Recht des Mittelalters und darf in keiner rechtshistorischer Bibliothek fehlen.’ (N.Jansen, Zeitschrift der Savigny Stiftung, 2013). Together with my colleague, Professor Cairns, we have also created a widely read and award- winning online blog, The Edinburgh Legal History Blog, in which important developments in the field are mentioned. The blog has an international following and is widely cited online. It is also worth mentioning that I co- wrote a business case for the appointment of a new lecturer in European legal history, thereby expanding the membership of the Centre for Legal History.

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As far as the study of Roman law is concerned, I have raised the profile of the Edinburgh Roman law Group substantially by inviting both established and younger scholars both in the traditional Roman-law field as well as within the fields of comparative law and the broader civilian tradition. It is internationally recognised as one of the most prestigious fora for the discussion of Roman law and, owing to overwhelming demand, the line up is booked up two years in advance. I have also expanded the activities of the group to include the hosting of small expert conferences on emerging issues in the field of Roman law. These have led to the publication of important edited works such as the 2013 collection New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World. Another volume on Cicero and his impact on the development of Roman law in the late Republic is currently in planning. As for student engagement, I have set up the Henry Goudy Seminar in Roman law. This reading group, consisting of students from both Classics and Law, meets once a month to discuss a work by a Roman author that has been read in advance. The reading tends to focus on works with some legal content with a view to enhancing dialogue between scholars of Classics and Roman law regarding law in the ancient world. As for knowledge exchange, I have sought to connect the study of Roman law with other fields in the Humanities through the creation of the Ancient Law in Context Research Network (co-hosted with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology).

Organisational Output in the Centre for Legal History:

In 2017

I organised two international workshops. The first, in conjunction with the University of Tel Aviv, focused on legal pluralism in the Roman Empire. The papers from this workshop will shortly be published in a special issue of the Journal of Legal History. I will act as the editor for this issue. The second, in conjunction with Northern Illinois University, focused on early Roman law. The papers from this workshop will be published in early 2020 in an edited volume through Edinburgh University Press.

In 2016

I organised an international colloquium (8 July 2016) on the lex Aquilia in Britain that brought together all of the university teachers of Roman law in the United Kingdom together with the foremost scholars on the topic from Italy to debate the “British” approach to the study of Roman law in this regard. An edited collection has been published.

In 2014

I organised an international author colloquium as part of the Oxford Handbook of Roman law and Society project. (15 – 18 June 2014) Most of the chapter authors met in Edinburgh to deliver drafts of their chapters as conference papers and to discuss issues of coverage and overlap. These

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drafts formed the basis of the eventual chapters to be included in the Oxford Handbook of Roman law and Society. I organised a one-day international workshop (in conjunction with Eva Jakab, University of Szeged) on Accounting Principles and Practices in Roman law. (30 May 2014) This is one of two workshops, the second took place in Budapest in 2015, in which a group of scholars explored the economic practices that underpinned much of Roman law. The aim of these conferences is to assess whether a better understanding of such practices may enhance modern understanding of Roman law.

In 2012

I organised an International two-day conference on Locatio conductio in 2012 to coincide with the publication of a monograph on the subject. The aim of the conference was to raise awareness of my monograph among scholars working in the field.

In 2010

I organised an international one-day colloquium on The Roman law of Obligations in 2010 with Roman-law scholars from Italy. The aim of this colloquium was to introduce Scottish students to the latest Italian scholarship on the topic of the Roman law of obligations. I co-organised (with Professor Cairns) an international expert conference on Legal Humanism in 2010. The aim of this conference was to assess the claims of Legal Humanism in the context of the narrative of European Legal History with a view to challenging accepted wisdom. An edited volume has been published (Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims).

In 2009

I organised a workshop on Legal History and Legal Practice in 2009 aimed at the legal profession in Scotland. The aim of the workshop was to explore the way in which legal practitioners use historical material (specifically Roman law) in Scottish court cases. This resulted in a 2010 article in the Scots Law Times (co-authored with John W. Cairns) on the use of Roman law in Scots court decisions.

In 2008

I co-organised (with Professor Cairns) an international expert conference on The Creation of the ius commune in 2008. The aim of the conference was to challenge the accepted narrative regarding the medieval ius commune. This resulted in the publication of an edited volume (From Casus to Regula) in 2010.

In 2005

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I organised an international expert conference in 2005 on Law and Society in the Roman World. The aim of this conference was to explore dialogue between the disciplines of ancient history and Roman law. This resulted in the publication of an edited volume (Beyond Dogmatics) in 2007.

14. Membership of Committees and Office-Bearer Roles Held:

University:

Convener of the Student Discipline Committee (2016 – present)

Member of the Undergraduate Academic Appeals Committee in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2013 – present)

Member of the College Undergraduate Studies Committee (2007/08 – 2009/10)

Member of the College Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee (2006/07)

School of Law:

Convener of the Board of Studies (2013/14 – 2014/15)

PhD Coordinator in the Subject Area: Roman law and Legal History (2012/13 – 2014/15)

Research Champion in the Subject Area: Roman law and Legal History (2012/13 – 2014/15)

Deputy Cluster Leader: Legal Theory and Legal History Cluster (2011/12 – 2012/13)

Programme Director: LLM (by Research) in History and Philosophy of Law (2008/09 – 2012/13)

Member of the Strategic Management Group (2008/09 – 2009/10)

Director of Undergraduate Studies (2007/08 – 2009/10)

Director of Quality Assurance and Enhancement (2006/07)

Member of the Planning and Resource Committee (2004/05 – 2008/09)

Member of the Curriculum Project Working Group (2004/05)

Member of the Law Library Acquisitions Committee (2003/04 – 2009/10)

Director of Studies [Personal Tutor] (2002/03 – 2014/15)

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Organisational Output in the School of Law:

Convener of the Board of Studies

The Board of Studies fulfils an important role in the School of Law. It is responsible for the ensuring that any new courses or programmes or changes to existing courses or programmes comply with college and university regulations. Owing to the expansion of the School and the increased volume of business, the Board had become difficult to manage. I therefore took the lead reorganising the way in which the board operated in order to ensure greater scrutiny of paperwork and greater consistency of decision-making. Following consultation with the secretary to the board, Heather Tracey, it was decided to divide the business of the board into three distinct groups (new course proposals; new programme proposals; changes to existing courses and programmes). Each of these would be given a dedicated meeting during the course of the year (and in alignment with College dates) to ensure that matters were dealt with at the appropriate time to enable these to progress through the College bureaucracy in a timely fashion. The effect of this has been to reduce the pressure on the administrative staff dealing with aspects of the board’s work. It has also given rise to clearer and more consistent decision-making in the board with greater scrutiny of paperwork and more discussion surrounding the introduction of new courses and programmes. Two further changes were introduced during my term of as convener of the board. First, in consultation with the secretary to the board, the paperwork was streamlined. The effect of this has been twofold. It has lead to a higher rate of completion (as well as more complete) paperwork. It has also given colleagues proposing new courses or programmes (as well as changes to existing programmes) a greater awareness of the regulatory environment in which courses are created and/or changed. In second place, the introduction of designated meetings for specific agenda items has led to a much greater awareness in the School of Law of different assessment practices and of good practice in this regard. A repository of good assessment practices (both formative and summative) has been created in conjunction with the secretary to the committee that can be shared with colleagues wishing to introduce new courses or to alter existing ones.

Director of Undergraduate Studies

I came into this role at a time when the School of Law received poor scores in the National Student Survey in the area of student feedback. As a result, much of my tenure was devoted to improving the student feedback experience in the School of Law. The following outputs resulted from my efforts. First, I authored the School of Law’s strategy document on student feedback following poor ratings in the 2006/07 National Student Survey. The document was created following consultation with all internal

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stakeholders (staff as well as representatives of the student body) and was formally adopted by the School of Law. It was designed to articulate the expectations of both staff and students, against the backdrop service delivery, in relation to student feedback. This strategy was implemented in 2008/09 and continues to form the basis of the School’s efforts to improve student satisfaction levels. Since then, this evolving strategy has become firmly embedded both in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In second place, I developed and implemented a system of student focus groups to monitor student perception of undergraduate teaching and curriculum organisation in each year of the LLB degree. These focus groups continue to form the basis of the School’s strategy to improve student satisfaction levels. In third place, I developed and implemented a series of comprehensive “webcasts” (video clips with accompanying PowerPoint presentations covering diverse topics such as study skills and preparation for seminars) by members of staff to aid students in the transition between the ordinary and honours components of the degree. A compulsory honours module consisting of lectures and take-home assignments has since replaced these “webcasts”, but the core values of these original endeavours remain at the hear of the School’s attempt to ease the transition from ordinary to honours. Finally, I worked alongside the Widening Participation Officer and the Law Library Staff to integrate elements of the Widening Participation Programme and Information Technology Skills into the LLB curriculum. The former was done through expanding the LAWPALS (peer assisted learning) programme offered to first and second year undergraduates. The latter was done through embedding IT skills into foundational courses in the LLB curriculum. Since then, these endeavours have been enthusiastically adopted and now form part of the standard offering in the School of Law. As this narrative shows, my interventions in 2006/07 provided a measured response to the issue of student feedback and have had a significant long-term impact on the teaching strategy of the School of Law. Finally, I also participated in the 2007/08 Teaching Programme Review and the Law Society Accreditation of the undergraduate law degree by drafting the relevant sections of the paperwork and by responding to the recommendations by the review panel.

Director of Quality Assurance and Enhancement

During my time in office, it came to light that the then Legal Practice Unit was not yet fully integrated into the Quality Assurance and Enhancement framework set out by The University of Edinburgh. Following consultation with the Head of School and the Director of the Legal Practice Unit, I worked with the staff of the Legal Practice Unit (now the Edinburgh Centre for Professional Legal Studies) to integrate this unit into the Quality Assurance and Enhancement framework. This involved the creation of course audit files, the establishment of an audit trail and the general inclusion of their courses into the School’s Quality Assurance and

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Enhancement framework. This has since become standard practice in the School of Law. I also participated in the 2006/07 Enhancement led institutional review by drafting the relevant paperwork.

Mentor

I have successfully mentored two younger colleagues (Dr. Valsan and Dr. Rossi) through their probationary periods.

15. Appointments as External Examiner:

In 2018 I was appointed as External Examiner for a PhD Degree in Ancient History, University of Cambridge, Candidate: Girdvainyte, L. – Law and Citizenship in the Roman Greek East: The Provinces of Macedonia and Achaia (c. 146 BCE-212 CE).

In 2018 I was appointed as External Examiner for a PhD Degree in Law, University of Glasgow, Candidate: Cunningham, G. – Law, Rhetoric, and Science: Historical Narratives in Roman law.

In 2018 I was appointed as External Examiner for a PhD Degree in Classics, University College London, Candidate: McKnight, L. – Ideas of the Rule of Law in Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire.

In 2016 I was appointed external examiner for the law tripos 1 A at Cambridge University.

In 2016 I was appointed as External Examiner for a PhD Degree in Law, University of the Free State, Candidate: Cloete, N. – A Legal Historical Investigation into the Nature and Ordering of Cemeteries in South African Law.

In 2014 I was appointed as External Examiner for a PhD Degree in Classics, University of St. Andrews, Candidate: Wibier, M. – Interpretandi Scientia: an Intellectual History of Roman Jurisprudence in the Early Empire.

In 2005, I was appointed as External Examiner for Roman law at undergraduate level at the University of Dundee, School of Law, two terms, 2005 – 2007; 2007 – 2009.

16. Editorships:

Memberships of Editorial Boards of Peer-Reviewed Journals

Member of the Editorial Board of RIDROM = Revista Internacional de Derecho Romano (2019 – present)

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Member of the Editorial Board of Revue historique de droit français et étranger (2016 – present)

Member of the Editorial Board of Fundamina, Journal of the Southern African Society of Legal Historians (2015 – present)

Member of the Editorial Board of Edukacja Prawnicza, Legal Education (2013 – present)

Member of the Editorial Board of Zeszyty Prawnicze, Faculty Journal of the University Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Warsaw (2012 – present)

Member of the Editorial Board of Roman Legal Tradition, Online Journal hosted by Ernest Metzger, Glasgow University (2009 – present)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (2007 – present)

Appointments as Peer-Review Referee

I have acted as a regular peer-review referee for the following academic journals and publishers since 2007. It is worth noting that these journals and publishers cover a wide range of historical disciplines beyond Roman law and is a reflection of the interdisciplinary nature of my scholarship:

Journals (Journal Articles)

Acta Classica (South Africa)

American Journal of Legal History

Classical Philology

Classical Quarterly

Edinburgh Law Review

English Historical Review

Fundamina (South Africa)

Historia

Journal of Judaism

Journal of Legal History (The Netherlands)

Journal of Legal History (United Kingdom)

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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Journal of Roman Studies

Law and History Review

Phoenix (Canada)

Roman Legal Tradition

COLLeGIUM (Canada)

Mnemosyne (The Netherlands)

Publishers (Book Manuscripts)

Ashgate

Cambridge University Press

Oxford University Press

Routledge

University of California (Los Angeles) Press

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Press

REF (External Reviewer)

The University of Surrey and Strathclyde University, Glasgow

Editorships of Book Series

Subject Editor (Roman law), Oxford Classical Dictionary Online (2015 – present)

This is a particularly prestigious appointment as there are few editorships of this kind and I have been specifically approached because of my international profile to strengthen the Roman-law content of the next edition of this work.

Editor in Chief (with Clifford Ando and Kaius Tuori), Oxford Handbook of Roman law and Society (2011 – present)

The Oxford Handbooks are major reference works of c. 900 pages and c. 50 chapters. It is intended to be an important statement of current Roman-law

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scholarship by prominent scholars in the field. The volume was published in 2016.

Co-Editor (with Thomas McGinn) of Monograph Series, Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law (2007 – present)

Four monographs have appeared in this series thus far. The first, Roselaar, S. Public Land in the Roman Republic: a Social and Economic History of Ager Publicus in Italy, 396 – 389 BC (Oxford: University Press, 2010) won the James Henry Breasted Prize for the best book in the English language on any period of history prior to 1000 CE from the American Historical Association in 2011. The same book also won the second prize in the Premio Boulvert, the premier Roman-law prize, in 2012. The second book, Frakes, R. Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity (Oxford: University Press, 2011), has been favourably reviewed in the leading journals in the field. Further projects (three single-author monographs and an edited collection on Roman law and Economics) are currently under consideration.

17. Consultancies:

None, though the centre for legal history has a consultancy page.

F. EXTERNAL RECOGNITION/ESTEEM

18. Membership of Societies where Academic Distinction is the Criterion of Membership:

Corresponding Member of the University of St. Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (2015 – present)

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland) (2014 – present)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2012 – present)

Member of the Council of the Stair Society for Scottish Legal History (2011 – 2015)

19. Items of Esteem at Symposia and Congresses

Major International Lectures Given as Guest Lecturer:

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The Civil Law in Three Acts Event: The Alan Watson Memorial Lectures – The University of Edinburgh [Available online via the website of the centre for legal history]

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Title: Roman law in Roman Britain Event: Keynote lecture, University of Paris V, Legal History group, April 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Roman law in Roman Britain Event: Faculty lecture (Classics), University of Chicago, November 2015

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Why laesio enormis probably did not exist in letting and hiring in Roman law Event: Faculty lecture (Classics), Tulane University, November 2015

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Proving Adultery Event: Philips van Leyden Lecture, Leiden University, Faculty of Law, 2015

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Historicising Codes Event: Legal History Seminar Series, Griffith Law School, Griffith University (Brisbane), 2013

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Legal History and Methods Event: 3rd Annual Lisowski Lecture, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznán), 2009

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Savigny's Siren Call Event: Faculty Lecture, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, 2009

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Slave Testimony as Proof of Adultery: Revisiting Augustus’ Law on Adulteries Event: Annual Classics Department Lecture, Department of Classics, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), 2014

Paul J. du Plessis Title: What the Romans did for Us: Reading the Vindolanda Tablets as Legal Documents Event: Joint Meeting of the Schools of Law, History and Classics, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), 2014

International Papers Specifically Invited:

Paul J. du Plessis Title: What law and what society? Law and society in the Roman world since 1967

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Event: Closed Workshop “Legal experts and legal expertise in the ancient world”, Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Roman law in Roman Britain Event: Closed Workshop “Law in the provinces”, University of Münster, July 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Cinderella and the Ugly Stepsisters: Thoughts on Roman law and Comparative Law in Scotland Event: Closed Workshop “Roman law in Europe 1900 – 2015”, University of Helsinki, June 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Bartering your way to sale Event: Closed Workshop “Sale in the ancient world”, Harvard University, April 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Trading along Hadrian’s wall Event: Closed Workshop “The Impact of Colonies on the Development of Commercial Law”, the University of Helsinki, January 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Il danno allo schiavo. Ipotesi e declinazioni dell’illecito extracontrattuale Event: Jus Seminar 2014: Diritto, Impresa e risparmio nel tempo della crisi (Rome), 2014

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Cursing and Suing Event: Colloquium in Honour of Laurens Winkel (Rotterdam), 2014

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Cashless Transactions at the Edge of Empire Event: 40. Deutscher Rechsthistorikertag (Tübingen), 2014

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The levitas feminarum in Gaius Event: Closed LDAS (Legal Documents in Ancient Societies) Workshop VI, Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Jerusalem), 2014

Paul J. du Plessis Title: A Letter from the Edge of the World Event: Lecture, Taubenschlag Foundation, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, 2014

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Title: The Dialogue between Legal Doctrine and Legal Practice – a Case Study from the European ius commune Event: Jahrestreffen und Mitgliederversammelung der Freunde des Hamburger Max-Planck-Instituts, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private law (Hamburg), 2012

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The Public and the Private in the Roman law of Sale Event: Closed LDAS (Legal Documents in Ancient Societies) Workshop V (Budapest), 2012

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Periculum Event: Closed Afternoon Colloquium, La struttura della locazione romana e il regime dei rischi, Rome I (La Sapienza) University, 2011

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Contractual Culpa Event: Keynote Address at an International Colloquium on culpa, Taubenschlag Foundation, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, 2011

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Perceptions Event: L'Insegnamento del diritto romano in Europa. Oggi. Seminario Internazionale, University of Trento, 2010

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The ‘lease’ paradigm Event: Second Max-Planck Post-Doctoral Conference on European Private Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private law (Hamburg), 2008

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Theory and Practice in the Roman law of Contracts Event: Closed Conference on the Roman law of Obligations, the American Academy in Rome, 2008.

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The Interdictum de Migrando Revisited Event: Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, University of South Florida (Tampa, Fl.), 2008

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Tacit Hypothec in Urban Tenancy: Theory and Practice Event: Forum Romanum, University of Belgrade, 2008

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Roman law and the Legal Culture of Europe

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Event: Closed Conference on Roman law and the Legal Culture of Europe, the Catholic University of Lublin – John Paul II, 2007

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Legal Structures and the Theodosian Code Event: Closed Conference, Le Code Théodosien et l'Histoire sociale de l'Antiquité Tardive, Université de Neuchatêl, 2007

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Primum vivere, deinde philosophari Event: Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Stanford University (Palo Alto, Ca.), 2006

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Locatio conductio as a bonae fidei iudicium Event: Symposium, Modelli di ordine giuridico composito nella storia del diritto pubblico e privato, the University of Brescia, 2005

National Papers Invited:

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The Walbrook tablets and Roman law in Roman Britain Event: Cambridge Legal History group, Cambridge University, June 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The Roman law of maritime shipping Event: Workshop, Portus/Limen project at the University of Southampton, March 2016

Paul J. du Plessis Title: How ‘Roman’ is Roman family law? Event: Ancient Family Law Conference in Honour of Chris Carey, 2015

Paul J. du Plessis Title: Carriage of Slaves Event: Tony Thomas Seminar in Roman law [formerly the London Roman law Group], 2013

Paul J. du Plessis Title: The Idea of Contract in Early Modern Europe: Three Thoughts on Stair's Institutions of the Law of Scotland Event: Scottish Legal History Conference, Civil Law Centre – University of Aberdeen, 2011

Paul J. du Plessis Title: An Infringement of the Corpus as a Manifestation of Iniuria – Roman and Medieval Thoughts Event: Conference on Iniuria and the Common law, All Souls College, University of Oxford, 2011

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Paul J. du Plessis Title: Remissio mercedis Event: London Roman Law Group, 2003

20. Other Indicators of Esteem

Visiting Professorships:

In each of these instances, I was appointed to a visiting professorship following an invitation by the relevant subject area or department and following ratification by the senate of the university on the basis of my curriculum vitae supplied to them.

University of Turin (2019)