Law and economic performance in the Roman world

Introduction : legal systems and economic development / Koenraad Verboven and Paul Erdkamp -- Private property rights and public claims on land in the Roman Empire / Dennis Kehoe -- Hadrian, middlemen, and the exploitation of imperial domains / Alberto Dalla Rosa -- Adapting imperial economic choices to regional contexts : new evidence from the Sermo Procvratorvm and the Lex Hadriana / Hernan Gonzáles Bordaz -- The effectiveness of the early Roman law of obligations for bankers / Philip Kay -- What were the partes in the Roman tax farming companies? / Boudewijn Sirks -- Goods, law and trade : material evidence for lease and hire contracts (locatio conductio) and a grain sample recorded in CIL 4.9591 131 / Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz -- Creating and linking socio-economic and legal frames : cicero's pro quinctio / Sven Günther -- The pretium in numerata pecunia controversy and the Jewish debate over the acquisition of movables / Merav Haklai -- Reliance in the face of death : considerations on roman economy and fideicommissa / Ulrike Babusiaux -- Roman citizens in the legal economy of a Greek polis : the case of private donations to public bodies / Lina Girdvainyte -- Banking, credit and loans in the novels of the Emperor Justinian / Peter Sarris -- Roman Law, Commercial Law and Levin Goldschmidt's Legacy / Stefania Gialdroni.