Trained as a classicist and a lawyer, Professor Decock is a scholar of Roman law and its reception, particularly in the early modern period (c. 1500-1700). His research brings together ius commune, legal history and the history of pre-modern economic and political thought. He has written extensively on the legal, economic, and political thought of theologians-jurists belonging to the so-called ‘School of Salamanca’. Before joining the University of Oxford and All Souls College as Regius Professor of Civil Law, he taught at the Université Catholique de Louvain and at the University of Liège. Prior to that, he was a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and a Research Professor at the University of Leuven, where he also served as director of LECTIO (KULeuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance).
