Aniceto (“Setu”) Masferrer is Professor of Legal History and Comparative Law at the University of Valencia. He holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona and a doctorate in law from the University of Girona. Professor Masferrer served as a visiting professor at the University of Tasmania and at Cambridge University. He was, among other things, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School, The university of Melbourne, and at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. He is the author of several books, including Spanish Legal Traditions (2d ed. 2013). He recently co-edited Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (2013) and is a co-editor of Comparative Legal History (Forthcoming), with Profs. Modeer (Lund) and Moréteau (LSU). Also, he is the president of the European Society of Comparative Legal History.
Professor Masferrer is visiting at the LSU Center of Civil Law Studies until Christmas this year. He is due to visit in Miami (American Society of Legal History; lecture at the Florida International University) and to give lectures at the Loyola (November 15) and Tulane (November 25) law schools in New Orleans.
Professor Masferrer addressed the LSU Law Faculty on Monday, discussing “The Fight for Codification in the U.S.: The Case of New York,” based on the extensive research he conducted at Harvard in 2007 (see The Passionate Discussion among Common Lawyers About Postbellum American Codification: An Approach to its Legal Argumentation, 40 Ariz. St. L.J. 173-256 (2008), and Defense of the Common Law against Postbellum American Codification: Reasonable and Fallacious Argumentation, 50 American Journal for Legal History 355-430 (2008-2010)).
