Basil Markesinis

Sir Basil Markesinis, KC, FBA (10 July 1944 – 24 April 2023) was a Greek-British barrister and legal scholar, who was Jamail Regents Professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

Sir Basil then went to read law at the University of Cambridge where he earned MA and PhD (York Prize) in 1970.

Sir Basil was awarded an honorary degree from Cambridge (1988), Gent (1992), Oxford (1995), Paris I (1998), Munich (1999) and Athens (2006).

Markesinis authored or co-authored thirty books and more than one hundred and twenty articles in languages including English, French, German, and Greek.

Άρθρα και Δοκίμια πάνω στον Σύγχρονο Αμερικανικό Επεκτατισμό, Εκδοσεις Λιβάνη, 2009 (σελίδες 364) (Greek) 2.

The Duality of Genius, Jan Sramek Verlag, illustrated, Vienna (2008) (pages 469) 6.

Histoire des trente-cinq dernières années, Dalloz (2006) (with a foreword of President Guy Canivet).

[French translation of book no 6, below, but up-dated and with an additional chapter on French/USA constitutional law.]

(co-author) [Completely re-cast and re-written to take into account the recent reform of German Contract Law; 2006, 979 pages plus liv.