Scholars from across faculties at Kent are welcome to attend a two-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring Roman Law across the ages.

‘Recollecting Roman Law: Ancient perspectives on the contemporary’ is the first event of the year for the Kent Centre for Critical Thought (CCT) and its affiliated Law and History Research Group, Clio.

The workshop has been organised by Kent Law School Professor Maria Drakopoulou and Professor Alain Pottage (London School of Economics).

Professor Drakopoulou, Co-Director of CCT, said: ‘The theme of the workshop is the exploration of Roman Law with reference to contemporary legal studies. We take “Roman Law” to refer, not only to classical Roman Law, but to its various “incarnations” during medieval and early modern times.’

Together with Professor Drakopoulou and Professor Pottage, participants include:

Dr Jose Bellido (Kent Law School)

Julia Chryssostalis (University of Westminster)

Professor Peter Goodrich (Cardozo Law School)

Professor Martti Koskeniemmi (University of Helsinki)

Marta Madero (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and L’Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales)

Dr Edward Mussawir (Griffith Law School)

Professor Paolo Napoli (L’Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales)

Dr Connal Parsley (Kent Law School)

The workshop programme, hosted in Darwin Board Room (Darwin College), comprises:

Friday 19 October

15.00 – 17.00

• ‘In vitam humanum: Comedy, Office, Law’ (Peter Goodrich)
• ‘Several bees or a full swarm? The case thinks the law’ (Ed Mussawir)

17.30 – 19.30

• ‘The influence of Roman law on theology: the case of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus (end 1st century AD)’ (Paolo Napoli)
• ‘The hermaphrodite’ (Marta Madero)

Saturday 20 October

09.30 – 11.30

• ‘Jus gentium. The power of a middle concept’ (Martti Koskenniemi)
• ‘Mauss and the anthropology of nexum‘ (Alain Pottage)

12.00 – 14.00

• ‘Nature, Bodies, Blood and the question of personhood in Roman law’ (Maria Drakopoulou)
• Panel discussion