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Elected in 2018 to the chairLaw, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome, Dario Mantovani is a legal historian. Born in 1961 in Milan (Italy), after classical studies he obtained a PhD in law at the University of Pavia (1985), to which he returned in 1997 as professor of Roman law, after the universities of Trento and Parma.

Director of the journal Athenaeum. Studi di Letteratura e Storia dell'Antichità and member of the scientific committees of several European journals, since 2025 he has been president of the Société internationale de bibliographie classique, which supports the editing and publication of L'Année philologique.

He has chaired the Centro per la Storia dell'Università di Pavia since 2007, and edited the collective work Almum Studium Papiense in six volumes.

He has founded and directed the Cedant (Centro studi e ricerche sui diritti antichi) since 2003. Sixteen editions of the " Collège des droits de l'Antiquité ", each lasting one month, have brought together almost two one hundred fifty European and international students, and resulted in a collection of seventeen volumes.

In 2014, he was awarded a Cátedra d'excelencia (Banco Santander) at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. Recipient of a senior scholar fellowship from the University of California Berkeley (2007), he has been a visiting professor at EPHE, EHESS, Paris-I and Paris-II, as well as Collège de France. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the Redhis project (2014-2020).

He is Chairman of the Scientific Council of the École française de Rome (2020-2024 ; 2024-2028).

A member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere since 2009, the Académie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier and the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere di Modena (since 2024), he has been a foreign correspondent of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres since 2016, for which he received the Plottelprize.Since 2024, he has been socio corrispondente of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

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Selected bibliography

  • Les juristes écrivains de la Rome antique

    Mantovani D., Les juristes écrivains de la Rome antique. Les œuvres des juristes romains comme littérature, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, coll. « Docet omnia », 2018, 360 p.

  • Droit culture et société de la Rome antique

    Mantovani D., Droit culture et société de la Rome antique, Paris, Collège de France/Fayard, coll. « Leçons inaugurales », n° 286, 2019, 80 p.

  • Almum Studium Papiense. Storia dell’Università di Pavia

    Mantovani D. (éd.), Almum Studium Papiense. Storia dell’Università di Pavia, tome 1-6, Milano, Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario, 2012-2021.

  • Legum multitudo. La presencia de las leyes públicas en el Derecho Privado Romano

    Mantovani D., Legum multitudo. La presencia de las leyes públicas en el Derecho Privado Romano, trad. de C. Palomo Pinel, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2022, 176 p.

  • L’ « auctoritas » des juristes romains mise en cause. Esquisse d’une théorie rhétorique

    Mantovani D., « L’auctoritas des juristes romains mise en cause. Esquisse d’une théorie rhétorique », in J.-M. David et F. Hurlet (éd.), L’Auctoritas à Rome : une notion constitutive de la culture politique, Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2020, p. 271-313.