»Theory and Reality. Difficulties of Late Antique Administration of Justice as Mirrored by the Theodosian Code« The efficiency and functionality of the late antique judicial system depended to a large extent on the governors in the provinces. The emperor's constitutions examined in this study contain unlawful practices in court, contain, among other things, accusations against the governors and their officia, and address different types of maladministration, all of which must ultimately be placed in the broad context of »procedural delay and circumvention of procedure«.weiterlesen