Clifford Ando (born 1969) is an American classicist who specializes in

Roman law Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the '' Corpus Juris Civilis'' (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor J ...

and

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatur ...

. His work deals primarily with law, religion, and government in the

Imperial era The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Medite ...

, particularly issues of

Roman citizenship Citizenship in ancient Rome (Latin: ''civitas'') was a privileged political and legal status afforded to free individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance. Citizenship in Ancient Rome was complex and based upon many different laws, t ...

, legal pluralism, and legal procedure. In the history of law, his work addresses the relations among civil law,

public law Public law is the part of law that governs relations between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct ...

, and

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

. Ando is a professor in the Department of Classics, History and Law and in the College at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. He is a research fellow in the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa, and the recipient of several fellowships, grants, and prizes. He has held fellowship and visiting professorships in Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, and South Africa. He earned his bachelor's degree from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in 1990, and his doctorate from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1996. In 2008, he was among faculty members who questioned the establishment of the

Milton Friedman Institute Between 2008 and 2011, the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics was an academic center established at the University of Chicago as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary site for research in economics. The Institute aimed to advance, r ...

at the University of Chicago.Letter from Faculty.

Major works

* ''Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire'' (2000), winner of the 2003 Goodwin Award from the American Philological Association * Editor, ''Roman Religion'' (2003) * Co-editor with

Jörg Rüpke Jörg Rüpke (born 27 December 1962 in Herford, West Germany) is a German scholar of comparative religion and classical philology, recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2008, and of the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2011 ...

, ''Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome'' (2006) * ''The Matter of the Gods'' (2008) * ''Law, Language and Empire in the Roman Tradition'' (2011) * ''Le Droit et l'Empire. Invention juridique et réalités politiques à Rome'' (2012) * ''Imperial Rome: The Critical Century (A.D. 193–284)'' (2012) * ''Religion et gouvernement dans l'Empire romain'' (2012) Ando has also published numerous articles, essays, and reviews.

References

External links

* Clifford Ando
"History and Science, History as Science: Simplification, Modeling and Humility"
''Chicago Journal of History'', Spring 2017 * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, reviews of

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' American historians of religion American classical scholars Legal historians 1969 births Living people University of Michigan alumni Princeton University alumni Classical scholars of the University of Chicago Scholars of Roman history 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub