Richard Gamauf

Associate Professor Richard Gamauf is a member of the Institute for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. He has worked at the institute since 1987, completed his doctorate in Law (1992), and habilitation (2001) at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Roman legal texts as social history sources, Roman literature (especially Petronius), and Roman slavery systems.

Current projects include collaborating on an annotated corpus of Roman legal texts on slavery with the Mainz Academy, contributing to the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries, and authoring the Handbook of Roman Private Law. His 2023 publications analyze slave property rights (Peculium) and profession roles (Dispensator), while 2024 research extends kinship structures in Roman law.

Major awards include the Kupiszewski Prize (2001) at the Gerard Boulvert International Romanesque Prize. His 2004 role as Visiting Professor at Loyola University New Orleans and committee leadership (Equal Opportunities Chair 2007-2019) demonstrate institutional engagement. He teaches Roman law fundamentals and advanced topics, with recent lectures on legal exegesis and property rights.

Contact: richard.gamauf@univie.ac.at. Office hours available during semester by email registration.