Description: Four Essays on Maltese Legal History and Comparative Law (including essays with relevance for Scots Criminal Law, translation of Code Napoleon, and Islamic and Jewish Law)
Brief description: Professor of History of Legislation and Legal Methodology
Review Quotes:
"Heartfelt congratulations for the research, the intuitions, the methodology, the discoveries and the conclusions. Glad to see historiography finally moving away from fairy-tale telling. Have not read such compelling history of legislation critique for a long while." -Giovanni Bonello, former President of the Malta Historical Society and former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
"Ho avuto modo, leggendo questo testo che mi aveva fatto l'onore di trasmettermi in anteprima, di ammirare la sua vasta cultura giuridica e comparatistica (e non solo). E ho inoltre avuto modo di riflettere nuovamente sulla speciale posizione assunta da Malta nella storia del diritto moderno: un autentico crocevia di culture e di tradizioni, nel quale Ella sa muoversi con maestria giungendo a conclusioni ampiamente condivisibili." [trans.: Reading the text which you kindly sent me at pre-publication stage, I had the occasion to view your wide legal and comparative law culture (and not only). I also had the occasion to reflect again on Malta's special position in the history of modern law. It is a veritable crossroads of cultures and traditions, in which you know how to move in a masterly fashion, arriving at conclusions which can be widely shared.] - Ettore Dezza, Professor of History of Law, University of Pavia, Italy
"Dr Sammut humbly declares that he is not a professional linguist and that his knowledge of legal history is limited to internal Western European Legal History. In reality, he is more than knowledgeable and adroit at handling legal history etymologically and linguistically and his blending them is marvellous as he amply shows. He is surely in Malta a leader in the history of legal language. Plaudits to him for his innovative tackling of aspects of Maltese legal history characterised by extraordinary intuitions and conclusions." - Raymond Mangion, Professor of Legal History and Methodology, University of Malta
"The writer is a first-class researcher, ranging far and wide and following all the trails, primary and secondary, which that research suggests. This is quite impressive." - Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici, Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Malta, former President of the Constitutional Court of Malta and former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights