Peter Candy is an Assistant Professor in Civil Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. His research interests include Roman legal and economic history, with a focus on the relationship between economic development and legal change during the last centuries of the Roman Republic. Peter co-edited, with Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (EUP, 2022). Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Law faculty at the University of the Basque Country (Euskal herriko Unibertsitatea), and a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster. She holds PhDs in both Roman law and archaeology from the Universities of Alicante and Palermo (2014) and Southampton and Lyon 2 (2018) respectively. Her research interests lie in the field of Roman law, with a particular focus upon its commercial and maritime aspects.
Overall, the volume represents an important resource for any scholar investigating Roman law, maritime exchange or the ancient economy more broadly. Even with the diverse range of contributions, the volume works well as a cohesive whole, and each chapter clearly contributes towards a common goal of bringing a more interdisciplinary approach to these topics. The importance of maritime commerce in the Roman world and the complexity of understanding it is emphasised effectively throughout, and convincing and important developments in specific cases are argued for. [...] The book achieves its stated goals effectively and represents an important and impressive contribution to the scholarship of multiple fields within classical studies. -- Andrew McLean, University of Edinburgh * The Classical Review *