PREFACE (p. 9)

INTRODUCTION (p. 11)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS (p. 15)

DIETZ OTTO EDZARD
Das Wechselverhaltnis von Richter und Gesellschaft:
Mesopotamien und Peripherie bis Ur III (p. 19)

RAYMOND WESTBROOK
Judges in the Cuneiform Sources (p. 27)

KAREN RADNER
The Reciprocal Relationship between Judge and Society
in the Neo-Assyrian Period (p. 41)

SOPHIE DEMARE-LAFONT
Second-Millenium Arbitration (p. 69)

BERNARD M. LEVINSON
Deuteronomy's Conception of Law as an "Ideal Type":
A Missing Chapter in the History of Constitutional Law (p. 83)

AMIHAI RADZYNER
Talmudic Law as Religious Law: The Source of the
Desire to Limit Judicial Powers (p. 121)

YOSEF RIVLIN
Jewish Contracts of the Post-Talmudic Era:
A Bridge between the Judge and Society (p. 155)

AUTHOR INDEX (p. 169)