Twelve Essays on Art as Deception. Sir Basil Markesinis has held tenured senior posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, University of London, Leiden in the Netherlands and the Law School of the University of Texas at Austin where he is now Emeritus Professor of Comparative Methodology. He has also held for a number of years part-time Chairs at the Universities of Paris I Sorbonne, Paris II Assas, Munich Germany, Ghent Belgium, Siena, Genova, and Rome Italy, the Michigan Law School at Ann-Arbour for two years and the Cornell Law School for four years. He has authored or co-authored 56 books, over 150 legal articles, and close