Danielle Allen is Dean of the Division of Humanities and Professor of Classics, Political Science, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (2004) and is working on issues of leadership in late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens.
Eva Cantarella is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Milan Law School, where she also teaches ancient Greek law. Among her more than 100 publications are Pandora’s Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity (1986), Bisexuality in the Ancient World (1993), and Ithaque: De la vengeance d’ Ulysse à la naissance du droit (2002).
David Cohen is Professor of Classics and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Director of the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center and an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center. He has published widely in the areas of Greek law, comparative legal history, and contemporary international humanitarian law and received the Historical Research Prize of the Historisches Kolleg, Munich. His books include Theft in Athenian Law (1983), Law, Sexuality and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens (1992), Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens (1995), and Intended to Fail: Trials before the Jakarta Ad Hoc Human Rights Court (2003).
Edward E. Cohen is Professor of Ancient History (adjunct) at the University of Pennsylvania and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas America, a leading U.S. producer and processor of natural gas. Among his books are Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts (1973), Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective (1992), and The Athenian Nation (2000).
John Davies, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. Apart from his books Athenian Propertied Families (1971: 2nd edition in preparation) and Democracy and Classical Greece (1978: 2nd ed. 1993), his work has focused largely on the economic, social, cultic, and administrative history of classical and Hellenistic Greece.
Michael Gagarin is the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas. He has written widely in the areas of Greek law, rhetoric, literature, and philosophy, including Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law (1981), Early Greek Law (1986), The Murder of Herodes (1989), and Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law and Justice in the Age of the Sophists (Austin, TX 2002).
Adriaan Lanni is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Law School.
A. A. Long is Professor of Classics and Irving Stone Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (2002), and he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (1999).
Alberto Maffi is Professor of History of Roman Law at Milano-Bicocca State University. He has written numerous books and articles on Greek and Roman law, including Studi di epigrafia giuridica greca (1983). He is the founder and editor of Dike, a journal of Greek and Hellenistic legal history.
Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Sorbonne and Professor of Papyrology and Ancient Legal History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. In 1971, along with H. J. Wolff and A. Biscardi, he founded the Society for the History of Greek and Hellenistic Law (Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte), which sponsors a series of Symposion meetings. He has written extensively on the history of the Hellenistic world, ancient legal history, Greek papyrology and Greco-Roman Egypt, and the history of Judaism in the Second Temple period. His next book (forthcoming, in French) is on Greek law after Alexander.
Josiah Ober is David Magie Professor of Classics at Princeton University and holds a joint appointment in the University Center for
Human Values. His books include
Fortress Attica (1985),
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989),
The Athenian Revolution (1996),
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (1998), and most recently
A Company of Citizens (2003). His current research focuses on the circulation of technical and social knowledge within democratic societies.
Robert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. He has written Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (1983), Athenian Religion: A History (1996), and Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005).
Cynthia Patterson is Associate Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Pericles’ Citizenship Law of 451/0 B.C. (1981), The Family in Greek History (1998), and articles on aspects of Greek family and social history.
Lene Rubinstein is Reader in Ancient History in the Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Adoption in IV Century Athens (1993) and Litigation and Cooperation: Supporting Speakers in the Courts of Classical Athens (2000) and has contributed chapters on the city-states of Aiolis and Ionia to the Copenhagen Polis Project. She is currently working on the institution of the volunteer prosecutor in the Greek world outside Athens in the classical and early Hellenistic periods.
Hans-Albert Rupprecht is Professor of Papyrology on the Law Faculty at the University of Marburg. Among his many publications on law in the Greek papyri are Studien zur Quittung im Recht der graeco-ägyptischen Papyri (1969) and Kleine Einführung in die Papyruskunde (1994). In addition he is editor of the posthumous work of Hans Julius Wolff, Das Recht der griechischen Papyri Agyptens in der Zeit der Ptolemaeer und des Prinzipats vol. I (2002) and, since 1976, the Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Agypten.
Rosalind Thomas is Ancient History Fellow at Balliol College Oxford. Among her many works on literacy and orality in the Greek world are Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (1989) and Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (1992). She has recently published Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion (2000) and is currently working on Greek historiography.
Gerhard Thür is Professor of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History in Graz, Austria, and Chairman of the Kommission für Antike Rechtsgeschichte at the Austrian Academy of Science. He works mainly on Greek procedural law and (with Hans Taeuber) published Prozessrechtliche Inschriften Arkadiens in 1994. A second edition (in English) of his first book, Beweisführung vor den Schwurgerichtshöfen Athens: Die Proklesis zur Basanos (1977), is in preparation.
Stephen C. Todd is Reader in Classics at the University of Manchester. Among his many studies of Athenian law and oratory is The Shape of Athenian Law (1993). He is currently preparing a multivolume commentary on the speeches of Lysias.
Robert W. Wallace Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, is the author of The Areopagos Council, to 307 B.C. (1989) and numerous articles in the field of Greek law, chiefly on questions pertaining to the regulation of personal conduct. He has also published in the fields of Greek history and the politics of Greek music theory.
Harvey Yunis is Professor of Classics at Rice University. He is author of Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens (1996) and editor of a commentary on Demosthenes’ On the Crown (2001) and of Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece (2003).