Notes on Contributors
Michał Gałędek
Ph.D. (2010), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish administration, judiciary, codification, constitutionalism, and political thought at the beginning of 19th century and in the interwar period.
Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli
PhD candidate, University of Tartu (Estonia), is also a judicial clerk at Tartu County Court. Her main area of research is Estonian Private Law in Interwar period.
Anna Klimaszewska
Ph.D. (2011), University of Gdańsk, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In her research she focuses on the influence exerted by the French law on the shape of the Polish legal system, commercial law, civil procedure and national legal identity in the 19th century.
Łukasz Jan Korporowicz
Ph.D (2015), is Assistant Professor in the Department of Roman Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź. His main fields of research are: influence of the Roman law on English law (especially since 1700), English legal history and Roman law as an important factor in the developing of medieval canon law.
Beata J. Kowalczyk
Ph.D. (2012), University of Gdańsk, is Assistant Professor in Department of Roman Law, Faculty of Law and Administration. She has published articles on Roman jurisprudence, Roman legal tradition, land law and comparative law including a monography USUCAPIO. The Roman Origin of the Modern Institution of Usucaption (UG Publishing, 2016).
Marju Luts-Sootak
dr. iur. (2000), University of Tartu (Estonia), is a Professor of Legal History. Her main areas of research are History of Jurisprudence, Legal History of Estonia, History of the Faculty of Law of University of Tartu, Philosophy of Law and Methods of Legal Thinking.
Ph.D (2017), is an assistant professor at the Department of History of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He focuses his research on the history of medical law and comparative analyses of the development of American and European law in the nineteenth century. He has published monographs, translations and many articles in this area.
Annamaria Monti
Ph.D. (1999), is Professor of Legal History at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. She authored three books (I formulari del Senato di Milano (secoli XVI–XVIII), Milano, 2001; Iudicare tamquam deus. I modi della giustizia senatoria nel Ducato di Milano tra Cinque e Settecento, Milano, 2003; Angelo Sraffa. Un antiteorico del diritto, Milano 2011) and several essays and articles on the history of justice, the history of legal thought, the history of 19th-20th century commercial law and on comparative legal history.
Zsuzsanna Peres
Ph.D. (2009), National University of Public Service, is Associate Professor of Legal History at the Faculty of Science of Public Governance and Administration at that University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Legal Faculty of the University of Pécs, where she had earned her J.D. and Ph.D. Her current fields of research are comparative and Hungarian private law in the 16th to 18th centuries, Hungarian marriage property law of the aristocracy, the family fideicommissa, and the public administration of the feudal Hungarian state. She is fluent in five languages and author of approximately sixty academic publications.
Sara Pilloni
PhD in Comparative Law (curriculum Roman Law) at the University of Palermo, ESCLH member, since 2014 is teaching assistant and exam committee member for Roman Private Law Course at the University of Trieste, in collaboration with Prof. Mario Fiorentini. Her last article is “Actio aquae pluviae arcendae ed obbligo di patientiam praestare in presenza di un agger naturalis. Su Paul. 49 ad ed., D. 39, 3, 2, 5–6” (BIDR, 2018).
Hesi Siimets-Gross
dr. iur. (2011), University of Tartu (Estonia), is an Associate Professor of Roman Law and Legal History. Her main areas of research are Roman Private Law and its Reception, Estonian Legal History, Incipience and Abolition of Serfdom.
Ph.D. (2008), Durham University, is Associate Professor at the Durham Law School (from September 2019, University of York, Reader at the York Law School). He has published on the historical development of commercial law in the long nineteenth century. More generally he is interested in the nature of ownership and ownership disputes in personal property. He also has interests in law and the circular economy, and the impact of smart technology on ownership.
Bart Wauters
Ph.D. (2004), is assistant professor of European Legal History at IE Law School (Madrid). His latest book, co-authored with Marco de Benito, is History of the Law in Europe: an Introduction (Edward Elgar, 2017).
Steven Wilf
J.D., Ph.D. (1995), Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the Law School of the University of Connecticut. His published books include Law=s Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Global Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective (edited with Graeme Gooday; Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Mingzhe Zhu
Ph.D. (2015), is Associate Professor, China University of Political Science & Law, Beijing (100088).