English, European & American legal history; comparative law, with particular attention to modern German civil & criminal procedure; Anglo-American equity, trust, pension & employee benefit law.
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.
The historical development of the civil law and its influence on the common law; the reappraisal of modern private law through the use of comparative and historical methods
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