The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of intellectual resources of contemporary legal history, from comparison to popular constitutionalism, from international private law to law and society, thereby setting itself apart fromother volumes as a unique contribution to scholarship on its subject.The Handbook brings the study of Roman law into closer alignment and dialogue with historical, sociological, and anthropological research into law in other periods. It will therefore be of value not only to ancient historians and legal historians already focused on the ancient world, but to historians of all periods interested in law and its complex and multifaceted relationship to society.

Part I: Introduction; 1 Paul J. du Plessis, Clifford Ando and Kaius Tuori: A Word from the Editors; 2 Janne Polonen: 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 Begio: Epigraphy; 5 Jose Luis Alonso Rodriguez: Juristic Papyrology and Roman Law; 6 Michele 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 Rufner: 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 Eva 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 Jordens: 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