Olivier Hekster, Radboud University, is professor of Ancient History and chairs the international network Impact of Empire. He has published widely on Roman history, focusing on imperial ideology and Roman emperorship.Koenraad Verboven, University of Ghent, is professor of Ancient History. He specializes in ancient social and economic history, particularly of the Roman world, and has a special interest in monetary history and numismatics, friendship and patronage based networks, guilds (collegia), (neo-)institutional analysis and complexity economics.Contributors are: Olivier Hekster & Koenraad Verboven, Stephane Benoist & Anne Gangloff, Elsemieke Daalder, Francesco Bono, Matthijs Wibier, Juan, Manuel Cortés-Copete, Frédéric Hurlet, Clifford Ando, Peter Herz, Elena Köstner, Pilar Pavón Torrejón, Margherita Carucci.

• Notes on Contributors1 IntroductionKoenraad Verboven and Olivier HeksterPart 1 The Emperor and Justice2 Culture politique imperiale et pratique de la justice: Regards croises sur la figure du prince “injuste”Stephane Benoist et Anne Gangloff3 The Decreta and Imperiales Sententiae of Julius Paulus: Law and Justice in the Judicial Decisions of Septimius SeverusElsemieke Daalder4 The Value of the Stability of the Law: A Perspective on the Role of the Emperor in Political CrisesFrancesco Bono5 Legal Education, Realpolitik, and the Propagation of the Emperor’s JusticeMatthijs WibierPart 2 Justice in a Dispersed Empire6 Koinoi Nomoi: Hadrian and the Harmonization of Local LawsJuan Manuel Cortés-Copete7 Justice, Res Publica and Empire: Subsidiarity and Hierarchy in the Roman EmpireFrédéric Hurlet8 Substantive Justice in Provincial and Roman Legal ArgumentClifford Ando9 Zwischen Theorie und Wirklichkeit: Römische Sicherheitsgesetze und ihre RealisierungPeter HerzPart 3 Justice for All?10 Geschlechterrollen im römischen Erbrecht im Spiegel des zeitgenössischen Gerechtigkeitsverständnisses und am Beispiel der lex VoconiaElena Köstner11 La femme : objet et sujet de la justice romainePilar Pavón Torrejón12 The Spectacle of Justice in the Roman EmpireMargherita CarucciIndex

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