Kimberley Czajkowski is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her main research interests are the Roman Near East, Roman legal history, and the history of the Jewish people under the Roman Empire.Benedikt Eckhardt is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the department in 2018, he studied and worked at several German universities. His two main research areas are the Hellenistic Near East and the organizational history of the Roman Empire.Meret Strothmann is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She has wide-ranging interests in the history of the Roman Empire, though has recently focused on religious history and late antiquity.

• Frontmatter List of Tables List of Contributors 1: Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt: Introduction I. Egypt and the Near East 2: Andrea Jördens: Aequum et iustum: On Dealing with the Law in the Province of Egypt 3: Uri Yiftach: Order and Chaos in Roman Administrative Terminology 4: José Luis Alonso: The Constitutio Antoniniana and Private Legal Practice in the Eastern Empire 5: Anna Plisecka: The Decision of Septimius Severus and Caracalla on longi temporis praescriptio (BGU 267 and P.Strass. 22) 6: Kimberley Czajkowski: Law and Romanization in Judaea 7: Tiziana J. Chiusi: Legal Interactions in the Archive of Babatha: P. Yadin 21 and 22 8: Kimberley Czajkowski: Law and Administration at the Edges of Empire: The Case of Dura-Europos II. Asia Minor and Greece 9: Ulrich Huttner: Latin Law in Greek Cities: Knowledge of Law and Latin in Imperial Asia Minor 10: Cédric Brélaz: Local Understandings of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure in Asia Minor 11: Georgy Kantor: Navigating Roman Law and Local Privileges in Pontus-Bithynia 12: Lina Girdvainyte: Law and Citizenship in Roman Achaia: Continuity and Change 13: Ioannis Tzamtzis: The Integration and Perception of the Rule of Law in Roman Crete: From the Roman Conquest to the End of the Principate (67 BCE-235 CE) 14: Athina Dimopoulou: Lesbos in the Roman Empire: Treaties, Legal Institutions, and Local Sentiment towards Roman Rule 15: Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou: An Outline of Legal Norms and Practices in Roman Macedonia (167 BCE-212 CE) III. Africa and the West 16: Werner Eck: The leges municipales as a Means of Legal and Social Romanization of the Provinces of the Roman Empire 17: Meret Strothmann: Roman City-Laws of Spain and their Modelling of the Religious Landscape 18: Clifford Ando: Public Law in Roman North Africa 19: Anna Dolganov: Nutricula causidicorum: Legal Practitioners in Roman North Africa 20: Benedikt Eckhardt: Law, Empire, and Identity between West and East: The Danubian Provinces 21: Paul du Plessis: Provincial Law' in Britannia 22: Matthijs Wibier: Legal Education and Legal Culture in Gaul during the Principate 23: Giovanna D. Merola: Perspectives Endmatter Indices

The number of papers, and the wide geographical coverage, lends real weight to the editors' belief that their volume read as a whole 'will, we hope, provide a new and wide-ranging view on law in the Roman empire'