Professor Bernardo Periñán-Gómez: 'The Roman origin of privacy as a legal value'

Prof. Periñán-Gómez teaches Roman and Comparative Law at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain). He has previously been Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (European Law Research Center) and at the Universities of Padova and Pavia. He has also taught at Seville and Huelva University. Bernardo Periñán is the head of a the Research Group "Law, Person and Citizen in historical and Contemporary Experience" (2007-2011), officially recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Science. He is the author of two monographs (2000, 2008) and several articles on both private and public Roman law and has coordinated a collective book on Citizenship and Law of Persons in a comparative perspective (2010). He is also a member of the Board of two Journals: Roman Legal Tradition (Glasgow, Harvard, Kansas) and General Journal of Roman Law (Madrid).

The talk is on Monday, 3 May at the Law Faculty, room B16, 5pm.

For organizational purposes it would be useful to signal your intention to attend by sending an email to G. Rossi - gr285@cam.ac.uk