Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law -- Chapter 2. Law's Empire -- Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War -- Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires -- Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination -- Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index
