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 11 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (3) Seminar (4) Symposium (2) Opening lecture (1) Special events (1) 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 2023 - 2024 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 2023 - 2024 Symposium Voies et voix de la philologie classique. Publishing ancient texts : how and for whom ? Dario Mantovani 05 Oct 2023 → 06 Oct 2023 05 Oct 2023 → 06 Oct 2023 Lecture The body of law, " Corpus Iuris ". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature Dario Mantovani 06 Mar 2024 → 29 May 2024 This year's lecture explores how Roman jurists, who were also writers, used metaphors to express and even forge their concepts, some of which are still ours today. 06 Mar 2024 → 29 May 2024 Seminar Reading the works of jurists : Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the duties of the proconsul) Dario Mantovani 06 Mar 2024 → 22 May 2024 The seminar will continue with a reading of Ulpian's "On the Duties of the Proconsul", a kind of guide that allows us to see the Roman provincial governor in action, and to understand how his actions were bound by the law. 06 Mar 2024 → 22 May 2024 Seminar Not recorded Doctoral seminar Dario Mantovani 13 Mar 2024 → 29 May 2024 13 Mar 2024 → 29 May 2024 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