Basil Markesinis

Sir Basil Markesinis, has held tenured positions in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, University of London, Leiden (in the Netherlands) and the Law School of the University of Texas at Austin. He has also held for a number of years part time Chairs at the Universities of Paris (Sorbonne), Munich (Germany), Siena and Rome (Italy) and the Cornell Law School. His forty eight books and over one hundred and fifty articles havedealt with topics such as law, the travelling of ideas, psychobiography, the classics, and art and have earned him Fellowships in the Academies of Athens, Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Rome (Lincei) as well the Athens Archaelogical Society and the American Law Institute. In the New Year's Honours List of 2005 he was Knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for "exceptional Services to International Relations" and has also received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of France and Italy as well as that of the Grand Officer's Cross of the German Order of Merit.