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This presentation will introduce my new project on legal culture in the world of the Roman provinces, and suggest that (a) there emerged a new interest in law in the first three centuries AD, revolving in particular on how to think about the scope of legal authority, and (b) this interest marked the emergence of a new form of provincial politics, which called into question the nature of the state itself. My presentation will try to reconstruct this process, and argue that it has stakes for how we understand political culture in the Roman world more generally.