Bücher von Paul J du Plessis (Professor of Roman Law, Professor of Roman Law, University of Edinburgh)

Paul du Plessis is a legal historian whose research interests include Roman law, medieval interpretations of Roman law, Roman-Dutch law, the historical development of the civilian tradition in mixed jurisdictions, the relationship between law and history as well as between law and society in a historical context. He is a member of various organizations dedicated to the study of legal history, sometime webmaster of the Centre for Legal History at Edinburgh University and convener of the Edinburgh Roman Law Group. He is co-author of the Edinburgh Legal History Blog. He is the general editor (with Thomas McGinn) of the monograph series Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law. Clifford Ando is an historian of government, law, and religion specializing in the ancient Mediterranean between the late Hellenistic and late Roman periods. He has particular interests in contemporary social and political theory, public law, practices of legal interpretation, and metaphor and cognition. Kaius Tuori is currently Associate Professor of European Intellectual History at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, classical archaeology, and their intellectual history. In addition to four books, his work has been published in Law, Culture and the Humanities, The Journal of Legal History, the Journal of Legal Pluralism, Revue internationale des droits de l'Antiquite and the Legal History Review. He holds a doctorate in Law and an MA in History from his studies at the universities of Helsinki, Finland, and La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.