The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Lecture 6 May 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Dario Mantovani The body of law, "Corpus Iuris".… Seminar 6 May 2026 16:00 to 18:00 Marco Fasciolo Metaphors and the limits imposed by natural ontology Lecture 13 May 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Dario Mantovani The body of law, "Corpus Iuris".… Lecture 20 May 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Dario Mantovani The body of law, "Corpus Iuris".… Seminar 20 May 2026 16:00 to 18:00 Michel Boudot Sensitive metaphor and technical metaphor in private law Lecture 27 May 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Dario Mantovani The body of law, "Corpus Iuris".… Lecture 3 Jun 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Dario Mantovani The body of law, "Corpus Iuris".… Seminar 3 Jun 2026 16:00 to 18:00 Carlo Ossola 'Iudicium iudicate'. Metaphorical impossibility Next 12 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (3) Seminar (4) Symposium (2) Opening lecture (1) Special events (2) Academic year Academic year (-) 2025 - 2026 (4) 2024 - 2025 (3) 2023 - 2024 (4) (-) 2022 - 2023 (5) 2021 - 2022 (4) 2020 - 2021 (2) 2019 - 2020 (1) (-) 2018 - 2019 (3) Active filters 2025 - 2026 2022 - 2023 2018 - 2019 2025 - 2026 Special events Inheriting the future (continued) Avenir Commun Durable, Marc Fontecave, Dario Mantovani, Jean-Marie Tarascon 11 Sep 2025 → 14 Oct 2025 11 Sep 2025 → 14 Oct 2025 Lecture The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2) Dario Mantovani 11 Mar 2026 → 03 Jun 2026 11 Mar 2026 → 03 Jun 2026 Seminar Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor? Dario Mantovani 11 Mar 2026 → 03 Jun 2026 11 Mar 2026 → 03 Jun 2026 Symposium In Margine. The Philology of Paratexts and Its Implications. Law, literature, religion Dario Mantovani 26 Mar 2026 → 27 Mar 2026 26 Mar 2026 → 27 Mar 2026 2022 - 2023 Seminar 15:00 - 17:00 Not recorded Epieikeia/aequitas : equity from Athens and Rome Dario Mantovani, Évelyne Scheid-Tissinier 23 Nov 2022 Salle 4, Site Marcelin Berthelot 23 Nov 2022 15:00 - 17:00 Symposium The letters and spirits of the law : Diego Quaglioni's Scritti Dario Mantovani 08 Feb 2023 08 Feb 2023 Lecture Rights of nature, nature without rights. The Roman implicits of modern thought Dario Mantovani 08 Mar 2023 → 31 May 2023 08 Mar 2023 → 31 May 2023 Seminar Read the works of the jurists : Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the duties of the governor) Dario Mantovani 08 Mar 2023 → 24 May 2023 08 Mar 2023 → 24 May 2023 Special events Reading IPCC reports to understand the world ahead - An introduction to societal issues between science, utopia and reality Avenir Commun Durable, Dario Mantovani 29 Mar 2023 → 01 Jun 2023 29 Mar 2023 → 01 Jun 2023 2018 - 2019 Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Dario Mantovani 17 Jan 2019 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 17 Jan 2019 18:00 - 19:00 Lecture Legal uses of the past (in the thinking of Roman jurists) Dario Mantovani 06 Mar 2019 → 05 Jun 2019 06 Mar 2019 → 05 Jun 2019 Seminar New Roman law documents Dario Mantovani 13 Mar 2019 → 05 Jun 2019 13 Mar 2019 → 05 Jun 2019