Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

This volume is absolutely worth of reading and taking as a permanent cornerstone of the history of the Roman imperial legal praxis.
*Outi Sihvonen, Tampere University, Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica*

this is an impressive and important work ... There is much to praise here ... This is a work that asks more questions than it answers, but that is no bad thing. It challenges the reader, with great subtlety, to rethink the role of the emperor, to look again at what we think we know, and to recognise the artificial remembering of later Roman historiography. We accept Roman imperial adjudication because the Romans did, and if Tuori's argument holds, that is the most important thing about it.
*Anthony Smart, Edinburgh Law Review*

The author has indeed produced a work of judgment and sense, one that all students of the imperial legal system will find helpful.
*B.M. Levick, American Historical Review*