This special edition resulted from a workshop, generously funded by the Journal of Legal History. It took place on the 30th November–1st December 2017 at the University of Edinburgh School of Law and was organized by Dr Yifat Monnickendam and Professor Paul J. du Plessis. The motivation for this workshop arose from discussions concerning ‘law and society’ and whether insights from contemporary debates on this topic may be useful also to the Graeco-Roman world. The focus of the five contributions is family law. This branch of private law was chosen for two reasons. First, because in contemporary literature on law and society, family law is said to exhibit a particularly close connection with society. In second place, because family law provides a good test case, since it is well known that different family-law regimes existed across the GraecoRoman world. Five articles were chosen to showcase the main themes explored in this workshop. The central idea, introduced by Kimberley Czajkowski, is legal pluralism. For all the general acceptance of the notion that the Roman empire was legally pluralist, she argues, the meaning of this term remains underexplored. Having set out the two main academic positions on legal pluralism in the Graeco-Roman world, Czajkowski proposes that aspects of these should be combined in order to further the debate, especially to bridge the distinction between ‘jurisdictional’ and ‘normative’ legal pluralism. Finally, drawing on modern insights into alternative dispute resolution (ADR), she concludes that, to understand legal pluralism in the Roman context, greater attention must be paid to issues of ‘legal culture’ and to the motivations for choosing specific mechanisms in law to resolve disputes. The second article, by Michael Leese, takes the issue of ‘legal culture’ further. Although many scholars will admit that law is shaped by ‘internal legal culture’, that is by law makers and jurists, the origins of those rules remain a point of contention. After all, as Shauer has argued, law is not a

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罗马帝国下的家庭法

这个特别版来自一个研讨会，由法律史杂志慷慨资助。它于 2017 年 11 月 30 日至 12 月 1 日在爱丁堡大学法学院举行，由 Yifat Monnickendam 博士和 Paul J. du Plessis 教授组织。本次研讨会的动机来自关于“法律与社会”的讨论，以及当代关于这一主题的辩论的见解是否对希腊罗马世界也有用。五项贡献的重点是家庭法。选择这个私法分支有两个原因。首先，因为在当代关于法律和社会的文献中，据说家庭法与社会有着特别密切的联系。其次，因为家庭法提供了一个很好的测试案例，因为众所周知，在希腊罗马世界中存在着不同的家庭法制度。选择了五篇文章来展示本次研讨会探讨的主要主题。Kimberley Czajkowski 提出的中心思想是法律多元化。她认为，尽管普遍接受罗马帝国在法律上是多元主义的这一概念，但该术语的含义仍未得到充分探索。Czajkowski 在阐述了希腊-罗马世界中关于法律多元化的两个主要学术立场后，建议将这些方面的各个方面结合起来以推进辩论，尤其是弥合“管辖”和“规范”法律多元化之间的区别。最后，利用对替代性争议解决 (ADR) 的现代见解，她得出结论，为了理解罗马语境中的法律多元化，必须更加关注“法律文化”问题以及选择法律中的特定机制来解决争端的动机。Michael Leese 撰写的第二篇文章进一步探讨了“法律文化”问题。尽管许多学者承认法律是由“内部法律文化”（即立法者和法学家）塑造的，但这些规则的起源仍然是争论的焦点。毕竟，正如肖尔所说，法律不是