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Law’s Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Republican Statutes

By Carlos F. Noreña

Law’s Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Republican Statutes

This paper examines the various articulations of empire in surviving statutes (leges) from the mid- and late Republic, and argues that the language employed in these texts provides a useful, and underexplored, window onto the collective representation of Roman imperialism in the last two centuries BCE.