[We are grateful to David Sugarman, who is himself an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, for this notice of the death of Paolo Grossi. DRE]
Paolo Grossi, the distinguished legal historian and Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History (2003), died yesterday. He was a Professor of the History of Medieval and Modern Law, University of Florence, and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2009-18), ultimately serving as President of the Court (2016-18). He was awarded the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art (1985) and was made Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2009). His writings are characterised by wide-ranging scholarship, exceptional clarity, and a deftness that brought together the political, the economic and the legal. His scholarship is a rare and important contribution to legal history and comparative cultural history.
