This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the 22 essays, written by an international team of experts, deal with procedural and substantive law in classical Athens, but significant attention is also paid to legal practice in the archaic and Hellenistic eras; areas that offer substantial evidence for legal practice, such as Crete and Egypt; the intersection of law with religion, philosophy, political theory, rhetoric, and drama, as well as the unity of Greek law and the role of writing in law. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among specialists.

編者加加林（Michael Gagarin），德剋薩斯大學奧斯汀分校教授，是古代希臘曆史研究的資深專傢，齣版瞭《雅典法律中的講演錄》（Speeches from Athenian Law）、《古代剋裏特島的法律》（The Laws of Ancient Crete）、《早期希臘法律》（Early Greek Law）、《安提豐講演錄》（Antiphon: The Speeches）等著作20餘部，其中以《早期希臘法律》影響最大。

編者科恩（David Cohen），現為加州大學伯剋利分校研究生院教授，夏威夷大學威廉•理查森法學院法學教授，是伯剋利戰爭罪行研究中心的創始董事。主要著作有：《古代雅典的盜竊法》（The Athenian Law of Theft）、《法律、社會和性：古代雅典的道德執行力》（Law, Society and Sexuality: The Enforcement of Morals at Classical Athens）、《古代雅典的法律、暴力和社區》（Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens）等。