CURRENT POSITION

Anna Maria Mandas is an Associate Professor of Roman Law and the Foundations of European Law (GIUR-15/A) at the Department of Law, University of Cagliari.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

She graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cagliari in the a.y. 2008/09. Until 2017, she served as assistant lecturer for the courses 'Institutions of Roman Law' and 'History of Roman Law' at the same Department. In 2010, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the doctoral program in '‘Ius Publicum Europaeum. Teoria e Storia del diritto e delle istituzioni' at the University of Siena, where she earned her PhD. Her thesis, titled 'Il processo a Saulo di Tarso. Gli Atti degli Apostoli come documento giuridico,' was supervised by Prof. Emanuele Stolfi.

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

From 1° October 2021 to 30 September 2024, she served as a researcher (full-time), as per Article 24, paragraph 3, letter B of Law 240/2010, in the 'Roman Law and Rights of Antiquity' at the Department of Law, University of Cagliari. 

Prior to that, from 9 October 2020 to 30 September 2021, she worked as a research fellow at the same department. The title of the project was “Donne, diritti e tutele in diritto romano”. 

From 2 October 2017 to 1° October 2020, she held a temporary full-time researcher position, according to Article 24, paragraph 3, letter A of Law 240/2010, in “Roman Law and Rights of Antiquity”.

In 2017, she won a selection process for a research grant titled 'Differenze di genere e processo nel tardo antico', under the supervision of Prof. Maria Virginia Sanna. This grant was part of the project 'TVerso la parità di genere: donne nella storia, nelle istituzioni, nel diritto e nella società', funded by the Fondazione di Sardegna. Additionally, from December 2014 to July 2016, she was a research fellow at the Department of Law, University of Cagliari, working on the project 'Conciliare, Arbitrare, Mediare: alle origini dell'episcopalis audientia', which was funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (L.R. 2007, annuality 2012, P.I.: Prof. Francesco Cordopatri).

In 2019, she won the selection for two research grants aimed at supporting research activities at the Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History, specifically in the fields of Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research (LMU Munich). These grants were promoted by the Region of Sardinia under the Mobilità Giovani Ricercatori (MGR) Program. Additionally, she received funding from DAAD (Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst). The title of her research project was “The Crime of Torture in Roman Law: A Historical and Comparative Analysis". Furthermore, she was awarded the MOSTA mobility grant for the academic years 2020/2021 and 2022/2023. As part of this grant, she participated in a teaching week in EU countries (Erasmus+) at the Universidad de Vigo, Faculty of Law, in May 2022.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

29 April 2024, Introduction and coordination of the lecture by Professor Maria José Bravo Bosch titled "Legal Feminism in Byzantium and Current Reality." This event was organized as part of the Start-Up Project "Regulatory Tools for Countering Gender Discrimination," under the intervention line "Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives on Issues of Cross-Cutting Relevance for the PNRR" (CUP F25F21002720001)

15 September 2023: Guest lecturer for the course Derecho Romano (PCEO ADE - Derecho) taught by Professor María José Bravo Bosch at the Universidad de Vigo, Facultade de Dereito, as part of the MOSTA mobility grant for the academic year 2022/2023

28 April 2023: Lecture on "Some Considerations on the Subject of Torture in the Roman Legal Experience" for the Doctorate in Legal Sciences program at the University of Cagliari

14 April 2023: Lecture on "Relevance of Conception" at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions of Cagliari, as part of the Fundamentals of European Law module

17 March 2023: Lecture on "Some Considerations on the Subject of Pre-Contractual Liability in the Margin of Judgment No. 14188/2016" at the Cagliari School of Specialization for Legal Professions, also within the Fundamentals of European Law module

Academic Year 2022/2023: Course of "Roman Public Law" (6 ECTS). 

27 January 2023: Lecture on "Torture (Dalla quaestio ad eruendam veritatem al reato di tortura)" at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions of Cagliari, again within the Fundamentals of European Law module

Academic Year 2021/2022: Course "Roman Public Law" (6 ECTS) in the Legal Services Science degree course at the University of Cagliari

15 April 2022: Lecture at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions in Cagliari, focusing on the Fundamentals of European Law module

20 January 2022: Lecture at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions of Cagliari, as part of the Fundamentals of European Law module.

Academic Year 2019-2020: Course of "Roman Public Law" (6 ECTS). 

29 November 2019: Lecture at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions in Cagliari, focusing on the Fundamentals of European Law module 

22 March 2019: Lecture at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions in Cagliari, focusing on the Fundamentals of European Law module

4 May 2018: Lecture at the School of Specialization for Legal Professions in Cagliari, focusing on the Fundamentals of European Law module

 Academic Year 2018-2019: Course of "Roman Public Law" (6 ECTS). 

Academic Year 2017-2018: Course of "Roman Public Law" (6 ECTS). 

From 26 October 2016 to 30 March 2017: tutor for the course on Institutions of Roman Law 

From 2010 to 2017: assistant lecturer for both "Institutions of Roman Law" and "History of Roman Law" at the Department of Law at the University of Cagliari. Responsibilities included participating in examination committees and conducting seminar activities for the aforementioned subjects.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

She is regularly invited or selected to present or discuss papers in conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad, which include the following:

24/07/2024. Novacella International Seminar 2024 Romani iuris officina 'THE CIVIL PROCESS IN ROME AND IN THE PROVINCES' - ‘Et mihi et patri eius et ipsi iniuriarum actio incipiet competere’: actio iniuriarum e legittimazione attiva della donna; 

08/03/2023. International conference ‘Donne diritti e tutele: tra passato e nuove prospettive’ (University of Cagliari - Department of Law) - Le matronae e la pudicitia; 

06/03/2023. International seminar ‘Patria potestas: tra passato e presente’ (University of Cagliari - Department of Law) - La patria potestas in diritto romano: fere enim nulli alii sunt homines, qui talem in filios suos habent potestatem, qualem nos habemus’;  

14/02/2023. International conference 'Gender and law: a look at the Italian system' (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo - Morelia (Mexico) - Algunas consideraciones sobre la adtemptata pudicitia al margen de D. 47.10.15.15; 

10/05/2022. International seminar 'Dereito Romano. Vis et ius' (Facultade de Ciencias Xurídicas e do Traballo - Campus de Vigo) - A proposito dell'edictum de adtemptata pudicitia. Per una nuova lettura di 47.10.15.15’; 

11/05/2022. International seminar 'Regulación xurídica do deporte na antiga Roma' (Facultade de Ciencias Xurídicas e do Traballo - Campus de Vigo) – ‘Giochi, spettacoli e disordini’;

08/03/2019. International conference ‘Verso la parità. Donne, libertà, diritti e tutele’ (Department of Law, University of Cagliari) - ‘Tortura, pena di morte e tutela della maternità. Un problema ancora attuale’.

02/02/2018. Romanistic readings promoted by ELR ('European Legal Roots') in (Department of Law, University of Foggia) - Discussion with Professors Leo Peppe and Lorenzo Infante on the volume The Trial of Paul of Tarsus. A legal reading of the Acts of the Apostles (21.27 - 28.31);

Scala - Ravello 27/10/2017. Romanistic Meetings (3rd edition) ‘La domanda di universalità’. Discussion with Prof. Laura Solidoro on the volume The Trial of Paul of Tarsus. A legal reading of the Acts of the Apostles (21.27 - 28.31); 

16/03/2017. International conference ‘Donne, politica e diritto nell’antica Roma’, (Department of Law, University of Cagliari) - ‘Donne e testimonianza processuale nell’antica Roma’; 

Spello 23/06/2016. Participation in the ‘Tavola Rotonda 2016. Ai confini del tardoantico. Itinerari di studio’, organized by the Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana; 

14/04/2016. International Seminar 'La mediación entre la teoría y la práctica (Facultade de Ciencias Xurídicas e do Traballo - Universidad de Vigo) - Fondamento ideologico e regole del giudizio dei vescovi’;

11/04/2016. International Conference 'I Jornadas sobre derecho deportivo' (Facultade de Ciencias Xurídicas e do Traballo - Universidad de Vigo) - ‘Spettacoli e sicurezza a Roma’; 

27/11/2015. International Conference ‘Donne e disuguaglianze nella storia del diritto’ (Department of Law, University of Cagliari) – ‘Il processo contro Indicia e la testimonianza femminile’; 

Iglesias, 12/20/2014. Participation in the panel discussion and debate related to the conference Miniere e diritto minerario. Storia giuridica e storia locale’, organized by the Department of Law - University of Cagliari). 

Buenos Aires, 29/11/2013. International conference 'Derecho Romano y formación de la ética privada occidental' (Universidad Abierta Interamericana) – ‘Il divieto di tortura: art. 18 della costituzione Argentina, D. 48.6.7 e P.S. 5.26.1’. 

 

PARTICIPATION IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS, PUBLISHING SERIES

Member of the scientific editorial board of the series ‘Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Cagliari' - Serie II. Director of the series: prof. Francesco Sitzia.

Member of the editorial board of the journal of the Department of Law - University of Cagliari. (Studi Economico Giuridici - ISSN 19715692).

Member of Board of Lecturers of the 'Dottorato in Scienze Giuridiche dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari'.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

She took part to the following publicly-funded projects:

- La tutela dei soggetti vulnerabili: anziani e donne’ (project funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia - ended in 2023).

- 'Donne, diritti e tutele: tra passato e nuove prospettive' (project funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia - ended in 2022).

- P.I. of the Start-Up project ‘Strumenti normativi per il contrasto alla discriminazione di genere’ (project funded by DM 737/2021. Line of Intervention 'Interdisciplinary research initiatives on topics of cross-cutting relevance to the NRP').

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

- A.M. Mandas, On the procedural initiative of public officials (Act. Ap. 23.23 - 30), AV Editions, Cagliari 2014 (pp. 5 - 42); 

- A.M. Mandas, Civitas, Iura, Arma, in Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris, LXXX / 2014 (pp. 639 - 644); 

- A.M. Mandas, Mines and mining law. Legal history and local history. Cagliari, December 19 - 20, 2014, in European Legal Roots 5 / 2015 (pp. 3 - 6); 

- A.M. Mandas, The process and its alternatives: history, theory, practice (Cagliari September 25 - 27, 2014), in IURA, 63 / 2015 (pp. 321 - 328); 

- A.M. Mandas, The Trial of Paul of Tarsus. A legal reading of the Acts of the Apostles (21.27 - 28.31), Jovene Publisher, Naples, 2017 (pp. 1 - 330); 

- A.M. Mandas, Women and Process. Some considerations on the Indicia case, in M. Masia- M.V. Sanna (ed.), Women and Law. A debate, AV Editions, Cagliari, 2019 (pp. 107 - 148); 

- A.M. Mandas, A "puella habens spiritum phytonis" and an alleged exorcism. Some considerations, in Glossae. European Journal of Legal History 16/2019 (pp. 228 - 254); 

- A.M. Mandas, Neque torqueri neque damnari. On the prohibition of torturing and sentencing pregnant women to death, in M.V. Sanna - M. Masia (eds.), Women: freedoms, rights and protections, ESI, Publications of the Department of Law (Series II), Naples 2019 (pp. 219 - 234); 

- A.M. Mandas, Games, spectacles and disturbances. About D. 48.19.28.3, in Revista General de Derecho Romano 33/2019 (pp. 1 - 17); 

- A.M. Mandas, For a rereading of At. 17.1-10a in light of a recent study, in European Legal Roots 8/2019 (pp. 500 - 518); 

- A.M. Mandas, State-sponsored Torture in the Name of Public Safety: Warnings from the Roman Legal Experience, in Codex. Romanist Journal of Legal, Political and Social Studies 1 / 2020 (pp. 125 - 156);

- A.M. Mandas, 'Minus peccare videtur'. On the applicative perimeter of the edictum de adtemptata pudicitia, in Theory and History of Private Law 16 /2023 (pp. 1-41) (https://www.teoriaestoriadeldirittoprivato.com/numero-xvi-2023/);

- A.M. Mandas, Algunas consideraciones sobre la adtemptata pudicitia al margen de D. 47.10.15.15, in M.V. Sanna - M. Tola - S. Orrù, Women's rights and protections: between past and new perspectives, Naples 2023 (pp. 39-52);

- A.M. Mandas, 'Non matrum familiarum vestitae fuissent'. Some considerations on the subject of pudicitia, in M.V. Sanna - M. Tola - S. Orrù, Women's rights and protections: between past and new perspectives, Naples 2023 (pp. 117-140). 

- A.M. Mandas, 'Et mihi et patri eius et ipsi iniuriarum actio incipiet competere': actio iniuriarum and the active legitimacy of women, in P.R. Bonorino Ramìrez (ed.) Derecho, Género y Sostenibilidad, Madrid 2024 (pp. 157-175)

In progress:

- A.M. Mandas, Adtemptata pudicitia, in Roman Criminal Law. Foundations and perspectives, edited by L. Garofalo;

- A.M. Mandas, La provocatio in the imperial age, in Roman Criminal Law. Foundations and perspectives, edited by L. Garofalo.