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Zusatztext The author has indeed produced a work of judgment and sense, one that all students of the imperial legal system will find helpful. Informationen zum Autor Kaius Tuori is currently an Academy of Finland Research Fellow. He studied at the Universities of Helsinki, Finland, and La Sapienza in Rome, and holds a doctorate in Law and an M.A. in History. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, classical archaeology, and their intellectual history, and his publications include two academic monographs and several articles in journals such as 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 is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society alongside Paul J. du Plessis and Clifford Ando. Klappentext The Emperor of Law explores how the Roman emperor came to assume the mantle of supreme legal authority in the Empire. It offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the advent of imperial supremacy in law based on an analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction through historical narratives. Zusammenfassung The Emperor of Law explores how the Roman emperor came to assume the mantle of supreme legal authority in the Empire. It offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the advent of imperial supremacy in law based on an analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction through historical narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction 1: Caesar, Cicero, and the Models of Legal Autocracy 2: Augustus as Judge and the Relegation of Ovid 3: Divine or Insane: Emperors as Judges from Tiberius to Trajan 4: Hadrian as the Ideal Judge 5: Caracalla, the Severans, and the Legal Interest of Emperors 6: Conclusions Appendix Known Instances of Imperial Adjudication from Caesar to Severus Alexander and their Sources Endmatter Bibliography Index ...
