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Laurent Mayali, Ph.D. (Montpelier, 1978), J.D. (Montpelier, 1985)
Lloyd M. Robbins Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Director of the Robbins Collection in religious and Civil Law
Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Veme Section, Sciences Religieuses
Paris, Sorbonne, France
Member of the Scientific advisory Board of the istituto di Studi Umanistici, University of Florence, Italy.
Chair, Christian Romanitas and sources of Modern Law" (Romanite chretienne et sources du droit moderne") at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, at the Sorbonne in Paris
mayalil@law.berkeley.edu
Teaching: Comparative Legal History, Comparative Law, Roman Law
Research; Medieval Roman and Canon Law, medieval Jurisprudence, Comparative Law
Recent Publications, Books:
Europäische und amerikanische Richterbilder((with André Gouron, Antonio Padoa Schioppa, and Dieter Simon) of Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main, Germany: 1996).(Error iudicis: Juristiche Wahrheit und justizieller Irrtum(Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main, Germany: 1998). Coeditor (with André Gouron, Antonio Padoa Schioppa, and Dieter Simon)
Rare Law Books and the Language of Catalogues: Proceedings of the Conference at Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, 26-28 October 1997(Università degli Studi di Siena: 1999) with Mario Ascheri
Excerptiones Iuris: Studies in Honor of Andre Gouron. Edited by B. Durand and Laurent
Mayali, Studies in Comparative Legal Studies, Publications of the Robbins Collection, Berkeley, 2000, 827 pp.
Officium Advocati. Rechtsprechung . Materialen und Studien, edited by Laurent Mayali, Antonio Padoa Schioppa, Dieter Simon, Max Planck Institut fuer Europaeische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, 421 pp.
Privileges and Rights of Citizenship: Law and the Juridical Construction of Civil Society.
Edited by J. Kirshner and Laurent Mayali, Studies in Comparative Legal History, Robbins Collection, Berkeley, 2002, 298 pp.
Le faconnage juridique du marche des religions aux Etats Unis (The legal construction of the religions market in the United States). Fayard, Paris, 2002, 178 pp.
Articles:
La sélection des juges aux États-Unisin Jacques Krynen (ed.), L'élection des juges: Étude historique française et contemporaine (Presses Universitaires de France: 1999).Ius civile et Ius commune dans la tradition juridique médiévale, Droit romain, Jus civile et droit français, Etudes d'histoire du droit et des idées politiques, ed. J. Krynen, Toulouse, 1999, 201-217.
Law and Time in Medieval Jurisprudencein Feschrift Peter Landau, edited by R. Helmholz and M. Stolleis, Munich 2000, pp. .
Romanitas and Medieval Jurisprudencein Collection of Essays in honor of Alan Watson, Studies in Comparative Legal History, Robbins Collection, Berkeley , 2000, pp. 121-138.
Entre l'expert et le juge: la science des souvenirs refoulés dans le droit américain, Du pouvoir de diviser les mots et les choses. Travaux du laboratoire européen pour l'étude de la filiation, ed. P. Legendre, Paris 1998, 135-157.
The California wif e and the Visigoths, California Historical Society Review (forthcoming) and Boalt Hall transcript (excerpts).
Droit romain. Dictionnaire du Moyen Age, Presses Universitaires de france, Paris, 2002
Droit coutumier. Dictionnaire du Moyen Age, Presses Universitaires de france, Paris, 2002
Excommunication. Dictionnaire du Moyen Age, Presses Universitaires de france, Paris, 2002
La cultura della Legalita, L'Euromediterraneo, of the XIIth century.
In memoriam David Daube, California Law review 87 (1999)5
Fiction et pouvoir de representation en droit canonique medieval, Excerptiones iuris: Studies in Honor of Andre Gouron, Studies in Comparative Legal History, The Robbins Collection, 2000, pp. 421-437.
Reprinted with some changes inProcureurs et representation en droit canonique medieval, Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome, Rome, 2002, pp. 41-57
La formazione dei giuristi negli Stati Uniti in La Formazione dei giuristi in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, edited by Aldo Mazzacane, Editoriale ScientificaNapoli, 2001, p.107-130.
Romanitas e giurisprudenza medievale, Atti della accademia peloritana dei pericolanti. Classe di scienze giuridiche, economiche e politiche, vol. LXVII (2001) pp. 127-144.
Comparative Law et Droit compare. Le modele americain (Debut XIXeme-premiere moitie du XXeme siecle)in: "La comparazione giuridica tra ottocento e novecento." Istituto Lombardo. Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milano, 2001, pp. 131-151
La juridiction ecclésiastique et la justice en droit canonique medieval, Justice pénale et droit des clercs en Europe, Histoire de la justice 2005, 15-26
Legitimacy,Legality and the Rule of Law in Democratic Societies, Publications of the Korean Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Korea, Seoul, 2004, 755-763.