Clifford Ando
is David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor and Professor of Classics, History and Law at the University of Chicago. He has published widely on the histories of religion, government and law in the Roman empire.
Lia Brazil
is a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute, Florence. She works on the history of international humanitarian law and colonial laws in the British Empire, focusing on case-studies in Ireland and South Africa. She received her BA from Trinity College Dublin and her MA in European History from University College Dublin.
Joseph Canning
was trained as a classicist and an historian. He was Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Queensland, Australia, and later Reader in History at Bangor University and Director of the British Centre for Historical Research in Germany at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. He continues as Affiliated Lecturer in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. He has recently completed a book, Justifications of Authority and Power: Conciliarism, Humanism and Law, c. 1400-c. 1520. He is currently involved in writing a volume on legitimacy, authority and power in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Edward Cavanagh
was a Fellow (2016–2019) of Downing College, after attaining his Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa (2012–2015). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh. His scholarly interests lie at the crossroads of law and history.
Zachary Chitwood
is a lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He is the author of Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 (Cambridge University Press 2017) and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Endowment Studies (Brill 2017-), a periodical dedicated to the history of foundations. From 2020 he will serve as the principal investigator of the Starting Grant of the European Research Council, ‘Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850–1550)’ (MAMEMS).
is a professor of Legal History at the University of Roma Tre and a Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been a Visiting Professor or a fellow in many universities in the US, in Australia, in France, in the UK, in Germany. He published 7 books and several dozens of articles in Italian, French, English, German and Spanish. He is also the editor (with Laurent Mayali) of the Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages, published in 2019.
Matthew Crow
is Associate Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA and is the author of Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection (Cambridge, 2017), as well as several articles, essays, and reviews. He is working on a second book project on Herman Melville and the relationships between natural law and natural history in early modern and modern thought. Beyond that, he is working on Pacific exploration and the broader intellectual and imperial history of the ocean in North American history.
Alberto Esu
is Leverhulme Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universität Mannheim. He has studied Classics and Ancient History in Cagliari, Durham and Edinburgh. His research focuses on Greek political institutions and Law, Athenian Oratory and Political Thought.
Tiziana Faitini
received her Ph.D. in 2014, whereafter she became a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz and Marie-Curie COFUND fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg in Erfurt. She is currently adjunct professor of political philosophy and history of political thought at the University of Trento. She is the author of several contributions to the history of political and theological concepts, and of Il lavoro come professione. Una storia della professionalità tra etica e politica (Roma 2016).
Dante Fedele
holds master’s degrees in law (Trento 2009) and history of political thought (ENS de Lyon 2011), and a Ph.D. in history of political thought and history (ENS de Lyon and Università ‘Federico II’ di Napoli 2014). From 2015 to 2019 he was a research fellow at the Department of roman law and legal history of the KU Leuven; as of October 2019, he is research fellow at the CNRS (CHJ-Université de Lille). His main area of interest is the history of diplomacy and international
Naveen Kanalu
is a Ph.D. Candidate in South Asian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research project, Mirrors and Masks of Sovereignty: Imperial Governance in the Mughal World of Legal Normativism (c. 1650s–1730s) analyses the transformation of Mughal statecraft through the processes of legal codification and the reorganization of juridico-political institutions. Ancien élève of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, he was Teaching and Research fellow in German Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg. His publications have appeared in Bulletin d’études indiennes, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and Manuscript Studies and edited volumes from London and Berlin.
Alexandre A. Loktionov
is the Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He holds a doctorate in Archaeology (Egyptology) from Cambridge University, and his previous posts include a British Research Council Fellowship at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and a Bye-Fellowship in Egyptology at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His main area of interest is Ancient Egyptian justice, but he has also written articles on wider aspects of lived experience in Ancient Egypt, the history of Egyptology, and various Assyriological topics.
P.G. McHugh
is a Professor of Law and Legal History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He has published extensively in the areas of aboriginal law and legal historiography.
His major works include Aboriginal Title (Oxford University Press, 2011), Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law (Oxford University Press, 2005) and The Maori Magna Carta (Oxford University Press, 1991).
Jordan Rudinsky
is a Ph.D. candidate in Government at Harvard University, specialising in the history of political thought, and a JD candidate at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds an AB in Government and Classics from Georgetown University and a M.Phil. in Political Thought & Intellectual History from Cambridge University.
is a doctoral candidate in Politics and International Studies at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Mark Somos
holds the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s Heisenberg position at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He studied history, political science and law at Cambridge, Harvard, Sussex and Leiden. Mark wrote Secularisation and the Leiden Circle (Brill, 2011), American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761–1775 (Oxford, 2019) and 40 peer-reviewed papers; co-wrote with Dániel Margócsy and Stephen Joffe The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (Brill, 2018); and co-edited Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (Brill, 2017) with László Kontler. Mark is co-editor-in-chief of Grotiana and edits the book series, History of European Political and Constitutional Thought. He taught at Sussex, Harvard, Tufts and Yale universities.
Lorenzo Veracini
is Associate Professor of History at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and settler colonialism as a mode of domination. He has authored Israel and Settler Society (2006), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010), and The Settler Colonial Present (2015). Lorenzo co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (2016), manages the settler colonial studies blog, and is Founding Editor of Settler Colonial Studies. His Displacement as Politics: A Global History is forthcoming in early 2020.
Halcyon Weber
worked for fifteen years in the field of human rights law, and is currently a non-practising barrister. Since returning to academia, she has published on the textual transmission of legal writings of the second-third century antiqui, and on the emperor Justinian’s legislative approach to them. She is currently completing her doctorate at St John’s College, Cambridge, on Justinian’s decisiones, which resolved disputes between the antiqui.
Sarah Winter
is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (USA). A scholar of British literature of the long nineteenth century and the history of the modern disciplines, she has published most recently a collection co-edited with Elaine Hadley and Audrey