Professor Dame Julia Black is Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was President of the British Academy from 2021-2025.
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.
Comparative criminal justice, comparative law, criminology, social theory and law, transnational law and regulation. Theoretical challenges of comparing legal cultures. Issues to do with law, technology, religion and truth
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