Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and Chair of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Legal History, University of Regensburg
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.
Intellectual property law (copyright & trade marks) & private international law, from sixteenth century Papal printing priviledges to digital media in domestic & international law.
Medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; nineteenth-century scholarship on legal history, especially the work of F W Maitland
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