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Olivier Descamps Editor

Olivier Descamps is Professor of law and legal history at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, France, and Managing Director of the Institute of Legal History of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A specialist in legal history, canon law, and comparative law, he has authored or edited five books, including Les sources du droit à l'aune de la pratique (2018) and Le statut du magistrat (forthcoming). Professor Descamps is coeditor of the Revue historique de droit français et étranger, one of the leading journals in legal history worldwide. Rafael Domingo is the Spruill Family Research Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, and ICS Professor of Law at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. A specialist in legal history, legal theory, ancient Roman law, and comparative law, he has authored or edited more than twenty books, including The New Global Law (Cambridge, 2010), God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge, 2016), Roman Law: An Introduction (2018), and Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge, 2018).