Legislation as both a world order and a legal order / Dieter Simon -- Lawful society and legitimate power / Gilbert Dagron -- Legislation in Byzantium: a political and a bureaucratic technique / Marie Theres Fögen -- The significance of law and legislation in the law books of the ninth to eleventh centuries / J.H.A. Lokin -- Justice and finance in the Byzantine state, ninth to twelfth centuries / Paul Magdalino -- The competent court / R.J. Macrides -- The ubquity of canon law / Ioannia M. Konidaris -- Law, justice, and the Byzantine historians: ninth to twelfth centuries / Angeliki E. Laiou -- A rhetorician practices law: Michael Psellos / George T. Dennis -- Some observations on the Byzantine concept of law: three authors of the ninth through the twelfth centuries / Alexander Kazhdan -- From the evil eye to the eye of justice: the saints, art, and justice in Byzantium / Henry Maguire -- Irregular marriages in the eleventh Century and the Zoe and Constantine Mosaic in Hagia Sophia / Ioli Kalavrezou.