The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society

Paul du Plessis is a legal historian whose research interests include Roman law, medieval interpretations of Roman law, Roman-Dutch law, the historical development of the civilian tradition in mixed jurisdictions, the relationship between law and history as well as between law and society in a historical context. He is a member of various organizations dedicated to the study of legal history, sometime webmaster of the Centre for Legal History at Edinburgh University and convener of the Edinburgh Roman Law Group. He is co-author of the Edinburgh Legal History Blog. He is the general editor (with Thomas McGinn) of the monograph series Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law. Clifford Ando is an historian of government, law, and religion specializing in the ancient Mediterranean between the late Hellenistic and late Roman periods. He has particular interests in contemporary social and political theory, public law, practices of legal interpretation, and metaphor and cognition. Kaius Tuori is currently Associate Professor of European Intellectual History at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, classical archaeology, and their intellectual history. In addition to four books, his work has been published in Law, Culture and the Humanities, The Journal of Legal History, the Journal of Legal Pluralism, Revue internationale des droits de l'Antiquite and the Legal History Review. He holds a doctorate in Law and an MA in History from his studies at the universities of Helsinki, Finland, and La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.

Part I: Introduction
1: Paul J. du Plessis, Clifford Ando and Kaius Tuori: A Word from the Editors
2: Janne Pölönen: Framing "Law and Society" in the Roman World
Part II: Reading Roman Law
3: Dario Mantovani: More than Codes: Roman Ways of Organising and Giving Access to Legal Information
4: Tommaso Beggio: Epigraphy
5: José Luis Alonso Rodríguez: Juristic Papyrology and Roman Law
6: Michèle Lowrie: Roman Law and Latin Literature
Part III: The Constitutional Structure of the Roman State
7: Francisco Pina Polo: SPQR: Institutions and Popular Participation in the Roman Republic
8: Werner Eck: The Emperor, the Law and Imperial Administration
9: John Richardson: Provincial Administration
10: Saskia T. Roselaar: Local Administration
11: Jonathan S. Perry: Collegia and Their Impact on the Constitutional Structure of the Roman State
Part IV: Legal Professionals and Legal Culture
12: Jill Harries: Legal Education and Training of Lawyers
13: Michael Peachin: Lawyers in Administration
14: Ulrike Babusiaux: Legal Writing and Legal Reasoning
15: Jacob Giltaij: Greek Philosophy and Classical Roman Law
16: Agnieszka Kacprzak: Rhetoric and Roman Law
Part V: Settling Disputes
Civil Actions and Civil Procedure
17: Frederik Vervaet: Magistrates that Made and Applied the Law
18: Leanne Bablitz: Roman Courts and Private Arbitration
19: Ernest Metzger: Republican Civil Procedure: Sanctioning Reluctant Defendants
20: Thomas Rüfner: Imperial Cognitio Process
21: Elizabeth A. Meyer: Evidence and Argument: The Truth of Prestige and its Performance
22: Clifford Ando: Legal Pluralism in Practice
Criminal Law and Social Order
23: Christopher Fuhrmann: Police Functions and Public Order
24: Andrew Riggsby: Public and Private Criminal Law
25: Ari Z. Bryen: Crimes against the Individual: Violence and Sexual Crimes
26: Callie Williamson: Crimes Against the State
Part VI Persons Before the Law
Status
27: Tristan S. Taylor: Social Status, Legal Status, and Legal Privilege
28: Robert Knapp: Legally Marginalised Groups-The Empire
29: Benjamin Kelly: Repression, Resistance and Rebellion
30: Richard Gamauf: Slavery: Social Position and Legal Capacity
31: Henrik Mouritsen: Emancipation
Gender
32: Matthew J. Perry: Defining Gender
33: Eva Cantarella: Woman and Patriarchy in Roman Law
34: Verena Halbwachs: Women as Legal Actors
Part VII Legal Relations
Persons and Family
35: Suzanne Dixon: Family
36: Jakub Urbanik: Husband and Wife
37: Ville Vuolanto: Child and Parent in Roman Law
38: Éva Jakab: Inheritance
Property
39: Richard A. Epstein: The Economic Structure of Roman Property Law
40: Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi: Ownership and Power in Roman Law
41: Christian Baldus: Possession
42: Andrea Jördens: Possession and Provincial Practice
Obligations
43: David Ibbetson: Obligatio in Roman Law and Society
44: Roberto Fiori: Contracts, Commerce and Roman Society
45: Floriana Cursi: The Scope and Function of Civil Wrongs in Roman Society
Economics
46: Egbert Koops: Price Setting and Other Attempts to Control the Economy
47: Jean-Jacques Aubert: Law, Business Ventures and Trade
48: Paul J. du Plessis: Urban Landlords and Tenants
49: Dennis P. Kehoe: Tenure of Land and Agricultural Regulation
50: Luuk de Ligt: Roman Law, Markets and Market Prices