Professor Boudewijn Sirks
LLM, MA, PhD
Regius Professor of Civil Law and Fellow since 2006
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Background
- Professor of History of Ancient Law, History of European Private Law and German Private Law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (from 1997 to 2006)
- Reader and Acting Chair for Legal Techniques, University of Amsterdam (from 1989 to 1997)
- Lecturer for Legal History, later Senior Lecturer for Legal Techniques, Utrecht University (from 1978 to 1989)
- Undergraduate Postgraduate, University of Leiden and Postgraduate Research Assistant, University of Amsterdam (to 1978)
Research interests
- Roman and Civil Law
- Papyrology
- History of European Private Law
- History of European Colonial Law
Selected publications
Other professional memberships and roles
- Editorial member of the Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis
- Editor of the Studia Amstelodamensia
- Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- Member of the KNAW Committee for the Edition of the History of The Dutch Legal Science
- Vice-President of the Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana
- Member of the General Board of the ‘Stichting OVR’