Professor Emeritus of Civil Law and Private International Law, University of Basle; Senior Partner of VISCHER, Attorneys at law, and Honorary President of the Institute for European Studies, University of Basel
James Q. Whitman's research interests are comparative law and legal history, especially of the Roman legal tradition; and comparative law of United States and continental Europe.
European Union law, especially the single market; Brexit and the UK-EU future relationship; employment law, especially equality law, and its European dimension
Adam Crawford specialises in policing and criminal justice studies; the sociology of control and regulation; criminological theory; comparative analysis of urban security; vulnerability and social justice; victims and restorative justice; and the co-production of knowledge.
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