Ms Giorgia Bucaria

Giorgia is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge. Her main interests include legal history, comparative law, and property law. Giorgia is currently researching the law of property in the late Middle Ages. In particular, her work focuses on incorporeal rights in land, and how these rights were protected and conceptualised in central royal courts. Her research is funded by the F. W. Maitland Studentship in Legal History.

Before beginning her PhD, Giorgia completed an MPhil in Law at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation explored the reception of the Roman law division between res corporales and res incorporales in medieval legal thought in England and in continental Europe, from a comparative perspective.

She holds a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, a Laurea Magistrale in Law from the University of Pisa, and a Diploma of Honour from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa).

Awards

• F. W. Maitland Studentship in Legal History, Cambridge, Faculty of Law (PhD, Cantab)
• Keith Hawkins Graduate Research Scholarship in English Legal History, Oriel College, Oxford (MPhil, Oxon)
• Franco Bonelli Scholarship (MPhil, Oxon)
• St Cross College – Law Faculty Scholarship (Magister Juris, Oxon)
• Sant’Anna School Honours Student Scholarship (Laurea Magistrale in Law and Diploma of Honour, Pisa)

Selected Activities

• Supervisor in Civil Law, Girton College, Cambridge (commencing 2025)
• Founder and Convenor of the Graduate Legal History Reading Group, Cambridge (2024–present)
• Supervisor in English Legal History, Law Faculty, University of Oxford (2024–present)
• Supervisor in Comparative Law, Law Faculty, University of Oxford (2023–24)
• Lecturer (Non-stipendiary), Queen’s College, Oxford (2023)

Conference Papers

• Corporeality in Fourteenth-Century Property Doctrine, presented at the ECR Legal History Workshop 2025, ILCR St Andrews