Current Post

University College London: 1999-

Senior Research Fellow, Department of History; working on the Projet Volterra I (Law and Empire AD193-455) 1999-2004; and the Projet Volterra II (Law and the End of Empire [Vth to XIth centuries]) 2005-2015

Award

1998: Henryk Kupiszewski Prize for The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1996). This was awarded by the Centro romanistico internazionale Copanello at the University of Catanzaro, as a silver medal prize of the IV Premio romanistico internazionale Gérard Boulvert.

Offices Held

Member of the Council of The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (2006-2009)

Consulting Editor for the Journal of Late Antiquity (from 2007)

Conseiller scientifique to the Editorial Board for L'Antiquité Tardive (from 2009)

Member of the Editorial Board for Roman Legal Tradition (from 2010)

Member of the council of The British Institute at Ankara (from 2011)

Recent papers and presentations

‘Codex Gregorianus Redivivus?’ (SIHDA 65e session, University of Liège, September 2011)

‘Making sense of scraps: the London fragments of the Gregorian Code and the Testament of Our Lord’ (A Colloquium for Gillian Clark, University of Bristol, August 2011)

‘Shifting Fragments: Making Sense of New and Old Evidence for the Gregorian Code and its Context’ (Shifting Frontiers IX, Penn State University, State College PA, June 2011)

‘Grappling with the Hydra: Co-ordination and Conflict in the Management of Tetrarchic Succession’ ( Convegno Internazionale ‘Costantino prima e dopo Costantino’, University of Perugia, April 2011)

‘Cracking the Code: using twenty-first-century methods to turn fifth-century legal fragments into the Gregorian Code and the Testamentum Domini’ ("Palaeography and Post-palaeography: Manuscripts from the First to the Twenty-First Century", Institute of English Studies and the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, Senate House, University of London, December 2010)

'The Augusti and Caesars Say: Imperial Communication in a Collegiate Monarchy’ ("Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power" [1st Conference of the NFN 'Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom’], University of Vienna, November 2010)

‘The Byzantines in the South: code and charter in imperial Southern Italy’ (Volterra II Colloquium 3: "The Imprint of Roman law in Lombard and Carolingian Italy", Dept. of History, UCL, July 2010)

‘ “Known unknowns and unknown unknowns”: the Rumsfeld guide to recent manuscript discoveries (Ancient History Teachers’ Day, Dept. of History, UCL, June 2010; reprised at University College School, Hampstead, September 2010)

‘ Fragmenta Londiniensia Anteiustiniana: Codex Gregorianus Redivivus?’, research workshop presented jointly with Benet Salway (University of Manchester, May 2010; reprised at the Volterra II Colloquium 3 workshop session, Dept. of History, UCL, July 2010; and at the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, October 2010)

‘ Fragmenta Londiniensia Anteiustiniana: the Gregorian Code rediscovered? A preliminary report’, presented jointly with Benet Salway (Dept. of History, UCL, March 2010)

‘From unholy madness to right-mindedness: or how to legislate for religious conformity from Decius to Justinian’ ( Mellon Seminar Series 2009/2010 "Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam and Beyond", First Colloquium "Converting States"; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, January 2010)

Represented the Projet Volterra on discussion panel “Legal Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age” ( 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age "Lex scripta: The Manuscript as Witness to the History of Law", University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 2009)

‘The Gregorianus and Hermogenianus assembled and shattered’ ("Codifications et reformes dans l’empire tardif et les royaumes barbares", École française de Rome, June 2009; revised version of a paper from May 2008)

‘Observations on the Sasanian Law-Book in the light of Roman legal writing’ ("After Rome": Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries, Trinity College, Oxford, May 2009; expanded version of a paper from June 2008)

‘Justinian and his two codes: P. Oxy. 1814 revisited’ (London Roman Law Group, Dept. of Laws, UCL and Edinburgh Roman Law Group, both March 2009)

‘The Code of Justinian: a sixth-century life’ (Classics & Ancient History Departmental Research Seminar, University of Manchester, February 2009)

Teaching 2011/12

Undergraduate

"Slavery in the Classical World", one term course

Post-graduate (all University of London inter-collegiate MA courses):

“Codes and Practice: the World of Roman Law from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages”: full year course, taught jointly

Ancient History “Sources and Methods”: one class on Roman legal sources

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies “Introduction to Byzantium”: one class on Byzantine law

Other Work

Sub-editor on the new edition of the Cambridge Ancient History vol. XII: The Crisis of Empire, AD193-337 (2000-2005)