Laurent Mayali

After attending the University of Montpellier (France), Laurent Mayali served as a tenured research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, and at France’s Center for National Research. He joined the faculty of Berkeley’s rhetoric department in 1985 before permanently joining the Berkeley Law faculty in 1988.

In 1997 he was elected to a chair in Roman Christianity and sources of modern law at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has been a visiting law professor at several universities and has lectured extensively throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia in the areas of legal history and comparative law.

Mayali is the author and coauthor of many publications, including Droit savant et coutumes; L’exclusion des filles dotees (XIIeme-XVeme siecles); Of Strangers Foreigners; and Identite et droit de l’autre; Mourir pour la Patrie et autres textes. E. Kantorowicz, Presentation et traduction avec P. Legendre et Anton Schutz; Repertorium Veterum Codicis Justiniani (with G. Dolezalek); Subjektivierung des justiziellen Beweisverfahrens (with D. Simon); Europaische und amerikanische Richterbilder, Rechtpreschung. Materialen und Studien (with D. Simon); “Symposium on Ancient Law, Economics & Society,” (with J. Lindgren and G. Miller) in the Chicago Kent Law Review; Error Judicis. Juristische Wahrheit und justizieller Irrtum (with D. Simon); Rare Law Books and the Language of Catalogues, Universita degli Studi di Siena (with M. Ascheri). He has also published numerous articles on medieval jurisprudence, customary law, and comparative law.

Education

Licence en Droit, University of Montpellier, France (1976)
Maitrise en Droit, University of Montpellier, France (1977)
D.E.A., University of Montpellier, France (1978)
Habilitation in Legal History, University of Montpellier, France (1985)
Docteur d'Etat en Droit, University of Montpellier, France (1985)

Laurent Mayali is teaching the following courses in Spring 2024:

• 219.4T sec. 001 - Courts, Lawyers and Justice in Film
• 264.75 sec. 001 - Introduction to Comparative Law
• 265.21 sec. 001 - Introduction to Sub-Saharan African Legal Systems

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Fall 2023	206.76 sec. 001	J.S.D. Legal Scholarship Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2023	219.4T sec. 001	Courts, Lawyers and Justice in Film	View Teaching Evaluation
	264.75 sec. 001	Introduction to Comparative Law	View Teaching Evaluation
	267.51 sec. 001	Introduction to Roman Law	View Teaching Evaluation