A discursive yet exclusively philosophical commentary on the arguments of the dialogue itself…. Overall Caspar offers a very successful challenge to the conventional view that Cicero’s Laws is a derivative or misconceived work of political philosophy….By doing so much to return Cicero to the prominent place in the canon of ancient political philosophers that the Renaissance and the Enlightenment regularly awarded him, Caspar has done the contemporary study of political philosophy a great service.

– The Review Of Politics