Sir Basil Markesinis FBA

Law
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1997
Year of birth
1944
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Law
Sections
Law

Last post

Emeritus Chair of Comparative Law, Law School, University at Texas at Austin; Formerly Professor of Common Law and Civil Law, University College London

Past appointments

University at Texas at Austin Emeritus Chair of Comparative Law, Law School

2016 -

University College London Professor of Common and Civil Law

2000 -

University of Oxford Professor of Comparative Law

1995 - 2000

Professor of Common Law and Civil Law, University College London

Publications

Tortious liability for unintentional harm in the common law and the civil law (2 vols) 1982

Tort Law 4th ed 1999

The German law of Tort: a comparative treatise 4th ed 2002

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