Often Thinking about—and Researching—Roman Law
How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For Professor Anna di Robilant, it’s been a daily pastime over the past eight years. Her new book, The Making of Modern Property: Reinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950 (University of Cambridge Press 2023), explores the history of how from the 18th century through the 20th century, generations of academic jurists and law professors crafted a new idea of property to support the process of modernizing countries including Germany, France, and Italy, as well as those in colonial peripheries, such as Latin America.
Seeking Systemic Change
This May, when students graduate from the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (MED), among the core competencies they will have achieved are several focused on equity, including: an ability to describe differences in health outcomes and disease burden due to inequities in health care; to understand historical and current drivers of racism, sexism, oppression, and marginalization; and to explain how one’s own identity influences their perspective and decision-making. That’s thanks in part to the work of Kaye-Alese Green (LAW’25, MED’25).
BU Law Welcomes Property Law Scholars for Conference
Property Works in Progress, co-organized by Professor Anna di Robilant, drew professors from across the country to discuss property law scholarship at BU Law.
BU Law congratulates Professors Bridges and di Robilant, newly tenured faculty
Recognized for outstanding research and teaching, Khiara Bridges and Anna di Robilant have been promoted to professors of law.