Eva Cantarella is a leading Italian classicist noted for examining ancient law by relating it to modern legal issues through law and society perspective. She has researched subjects involving the legal and social history of sexuality, women's conditions, criminal law

Criminal law

Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...

 and capital punishment

Capital punishment

Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

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She has written many books, which have been translated into several languages, including English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

. She is also editor of "Dike. International Journal of Greek Law" and member of different editorial boards such as "Apollo. Bollettino di Musei provinciali del Salernitano"; "Dioniso"; "Crime, histoire et Societés. Crime , history and Societies”; "Revista des estudios latinos"; "CADMO Revista de História Antiga da Universidade de Lisboa".

She is currently professor of Roman law

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

 and ancient Greek law

Ancient Greek law

Ancient Greek law is a branch of comparative jurisprudence relating to the laws and legal institutions of Ancient Greece.Greek law has been partially compared with Roman law, and has been incidentally illustrated with the aid of the primitive institutions of the Germanic nations...

 at the University of Milan

University of Milan

The University of Milan is a higher education institution in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with about 62,801 students, a teaching and research staff of 2,455 and a non-teaching staff of 2,200....

, Italy. Previously, she was dean of the Law School

Law school

A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...

 at the University of Camerino

University of Camerino

The University of Camerino is a university located in Camerino, Italy. It claims to have been founded in 1336, was officially recognized by the Pope in 1727, and is organized into five faculties.-History:...

. She also teaches and lectures at many universities in Europe

Europe

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 and the United States

United States

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. She has recently been appointed Global Professor at New York University Law School.

External links

Articles

• "The Love that Dared to Speak its Name" by Jasper Griffin, The New York Reviews of Books.
• " Bisexuality in the Ancient World", response by Eva Cantarella, The New York Reviews of Books.

Courses

• From Roman to Modern Law: Family, Abortion, Homosexuality and Capital Punishment
• Sexuality, Voice, and Resistance (co-taught with David Richards and Carol Gilligan)
• Capital Punishment in Classical Antiquity