Diego Serra

Diego Serra (LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.) is legal historian and comparatist, honorary collaborator of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid (Roman Law Area), member of the Spanish Society of Byzantinistics and member of the Tolkien Society. He successfully completed the Diploma of Expert in Byzantinistics scoring excellent marks (Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), with a focus on Byzantine Law, Byzantine Theology, History of Byzantine Art, Greek Paleography. He is the coauthor of the important (re)discovery of some unpublished Tetrarchic constitutions, credited to emperors Maxentius and Diocletian (early 4th century CE), published in two monographs and two scientific essays, together with Marco Cecini, between 2021 and 2022, which have been publicly discussed at the international colloquium, held on June 29th 2024, with the Universities of Sydney, Pomona and Swansea. He is the author of various scientific essays on the Law and History of the ancient Near East, published in prestigious international journals of Archaeology, Ancient History and Anthropology. He completed the four Biblical Hebrew courses withOfficina di Studi Medievali (Palermo, prof. Francesco Bonanno), a six-month course in ancient Aramaic (9th-8th centuries BCE, prof. Giulia Francesca Grassi, University of Göttingen and Trento), the annual course in Sumerian with Athena Nova (prof. Armando Bramanti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), and the international Summer School “The Language of Law in the Ancient Mediterranean”, on the legal terminology in a selection of documents from Egypt and the Ancient Near East (Leiden University).