Organising committee

Prof. Kaius Tuori.

Associate professor of European intellectual history, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Director, Centre of Excellence for Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie.org)
Director and Principal Investigator, ERC Consolidator Grant Project “Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition” (spacelaw.fi)

Prof. Paul J. du Plessis

Professor of Roman law, University of Edinburgh

Chair of Roman law and director of the Centre of legal history, University of Edinburgh

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Dr. Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz

PhD law (speciality in Roman law) Universidad de Alicante and Università degli studi di Palermo, 2014.

Dr. phil archaeology, University of Southampton and Université Lyon 2-la lumière, associated to the Portus Limen project

Current fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for advanced studies

Peter Candy

PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, Thesis title: Rome’s Economic and Legal Transformation: The Development of Roman Maritime Law during the Late Republic