BRIAN CAMPBELL is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2005). He has published on Roman military history (1984, 1994, 2002), land survey (2000), and Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome (2012), and contributed extensively to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and Der Neue Pauly.

• List of abbreviations; List of maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. Status and responsibility: freedom, slavery, citizenship; 2. Public and private interests: Rome and Italy; 3. Public and private interests: the provinces; 4. Economic life; 5. Government, citizens and property; 6. Crime and punishment; 7. Appearing in court; 8. The emperor and the law; Glossary; List of jurists and principal authors; Index of passages cited; General index.

BRIAN CAMPBELL is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2005). He has published on Roman military history (1984, 1994, 2002), land survey (2000), and Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome (2012), and contributed extensively to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and Der Neue Pauly.

• List of abbreviations; List of maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. Status and responsibility: freedom, slavery, citizenship; 2. Public and private interests: Rome and Italy; 3. Public and private interests: the provinces; 4. Economic life; 5. Government, citizens and property; 6. Crime and punishment; 7. Appearing in court; 8. The emperor and the law; Glossary; List of jurists and principal authors; Index of passages cited; General index.

BRIAN CAMPBELL is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2005). He has published on Roman military history (1984, 1994, 2002), land survey (2000), and Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome (2012), and contributed extensively to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and Der Neue Pauly.

• List of abbreviations; List of maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. Status and responsibility: freedom, slavery, citizenship; 2. Public and private interests: Rome and Italy; 3. Public and private interests: the provinces; 4. Economic life; 5. Government, citizens and property; 6. Crime and punishment; 7. Appearing in court; 8. The emperor and the law; Glossary; List of jurists and principal authors; Index of passages cited; General index.