This is a systematic treatment, in English, by a historian, of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society, from the third to the... » 

This is a systematic treatment, in English, by a historian, of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society, from the third to the fifth century AD. The text adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and uses the writings of lawyers and legal anthropologists. «