Zachary Herz is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He studies Imperial political and legal history, with a particular focus on how legal discourse served to express different ideals within Roman elite culture. His current book project, tentatively titled The God and the Bureaucrat: A Political Analysis of a Severan Legal Project, examines the growth of bureaucratic legalism over the course of the third century C.E. For more information, visit his website.