Overview of Procedural Law: The Early Ius Commune

Guest Lecturer

Bruce Brasington, Ph.D.

Teaching and Related Service

Dr. Brasington served as a teaching assistant for three years at UCLA and received one of ten university-wide teaching awards in 1985. In 1989, he was chosen, along with five other graduate students across multiple colleges, to teach in an interdisciplinary program funded by the Ford Foundation. Since 1990, he has been at WTAMU, where he has taught a variety of courses from introductory American history to graduate seminars in medieval and early-modern history. He has also offered Latin tutorials for a number of years. From 1995-2013, he periodically taught summer graduate colloquia and seminars at the Forschungsstelle der vergleichenden Ordensgeschichte at the University of Dresden. These summer offerings ranged from introductions to medieval Latin paleography and codicology to early scholasticism and canon law.

Research and Creative Activity 

In addition to speaking at numerous regional, national, and international conferences, Dr. Brasington has published two books, co-authored another, and co-edited a volume of essays. He has published over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters in fields ranging from early medieval canon law to medievalism in the United States. He has also served two times as the president of the Texas Medieval Association. In addition to the Powell Professorship, he is also a Regents' Professor of the Texas A&M University System and a Piper Foundation Professor.

Scientific coordination: Christian Zendri, Faculty of Law, University of Trento

Zoom streaming free of charge. Meeting ID and password available upon registration. Contact christian.zendri [at] unitn.it.