the origins of this book go back to an essay on law and rhetoric I published almost two decades ago (Harris [ 1994b ]). Since then, I have published several essays on the administration of justice in Classical Athens, some of which developed or modifi ed the views advanced in that essay on law and rhetoric. A few years ago, I thought that it would be a good idea to revise these essays and publish them together in a book because all of them examine the rule of law in Classical Athens and provide an original approach to Athenian law. Chapter 1 is an extensively revised version of Harris ( 2007b ); chapter 2 incorporates material from Harris ( 2005a ); chapter 3 combines material from Harris ( 2006b ) and Harris ( forthcoming b ); chapter 4 reproduces the text of Harris ( 2009/10a ) with a few minor changes, chapters 5 and 6 draw on arguments presented in Harris ( 2000a ) and Harris ( 2004b ); chapter 7 is an extensively revised version of Harris ( 2007a ) with new arguments; chapter 8 reproduces the text of Harris ( forthcoming a ); and chapter 9 includes some material from Harris ( forthcoming c ).