Commentary

• “L’Idée du droit subjectif et les systèmes juridiques romains.”

  - Michel Villey, "L'Idée du droit subjectif et les systèmes juridiques romains," Revue historique de droit français et étranger, ser. 4, 24–5: 201–28, reprinted as “Les institutes de Gaius et l’idée du droit subjectif” in Villey (1962), 169-88., 1946.

• “Sur les origins du ‘ius gentium’.”

  - Michel, J., “Sur les origins du ‘ius gentium’,” RIDA 3: 313-48., 1956.

• Natural Right and History

  - Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History. Paperback edn. University ofChicago Press, 1965.
  Review: –  In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss’s birth, and… More

• Études sur l’humanisme ciceronian

  - Pierre Boyancé, Études sur l’humanisme ciceronian. Collection Latomus 121, Brussels, 1970.

• Natural Law in Political Thought

  - Paul E. Sigmund, Natural Law in Political Thought. Cambridge, Massachusettes, 1971.

• “Stoic Intermediates and the End for Man.”

  - Kidd, I.  “Stoic Intermediates and the End for Man” in A. A. Long (1971), 150-72., 1971.

• “The law of nature in Philo and Cicero.”

  - Richard A. Horsley, “The law of nature in Philo and Cicero,” Harvard Theological Review, 71: 35-59., 1978.
  Overview: –  “Christian Natural Law is the acceptance and reinterpretation according to Christian and ecclesiastical principles of Stoic Natural Law. …” Thus runs Troeltsch’s classic and influential formulation of the view that Stoicism… More

• Natural Law and Natural Rights

  - John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford, 1980.
  Overview: –  First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other… More

• “Libertas.”

  - Peter A. Brunt, “Libertas,” in The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays. Oxford: 281-350., 1988.

• “Domina et Regina Virtutum: justice and societas in De Officiis.”

  - E. M. Atkins, “Domina et Regina Virtutum: justice and societas in De Officiis,” Phronesis, 35: 258-89., 1990.

• Justice and Generosity: Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy.

  - Andre Laks and Malcolm Schofield (eds.) Justice and Generosity: Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy. Cambridge, 1995.

• “The statesman and the law in the political philosophy of Cicero.”

  - Jean-Louis Ferrary , “The statesman and the law in the political philosophy of Cicero,” in  A. Laks and M. Schofield (1995), 48-73., 1995.  

• “Cicero’s politics in De officiis.”

  - Anthony A. Long, “Cicero’s politics in De officiis,” in A. Laks and M. Schofield (1995), 213-40., 1995.
  Overview: –   Modern historians tend to be very severe in assessing Cicero’s political acumen, especially the stance he adopted at the end of his life. ‘In the Rome of Antony and Octavian he was an obstructive anachronism’, a man who… More

• “Natural law and poetic justice: a Carneadean debate in Cicero and Virgil.”

  - James E. G. Zetzel, “Natural law and poetic justice: a Carneadean debate in Cicero and Virgil,” Classical Philology, 91.4: 297-319., Chicago, 1996.

• American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People.

  - Jean M. Yarbrough, American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People. Lawrence, Kansas, 1998.
  Overview: –  Since the early days of the republic, Americans have recognized Thomas Jefferson’s distinctive role in helping to shape the American national character. As Founder and statesman, Jefferson thought broadly about the virtues Americans… More

• “Sharing in the Constitution”

  - Malcolm Schofield  “Sharing in the Constitution,” in The Review of Metaphysics 49.4: 831-58, 1996 and reprinted in Schofield as chapter Ch. 8., 1999.

• Saving the City: Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms.

  - Malcolm Schofield, Saving the City: Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms. London and New York, 1999.
  Overview: –  A theory of the good society entails some account of how the various elements of a society are kept in harmony and how strife among citizens and groups of citizens is resolved. Malcolm Schofield’s Saving the City examines the ways… More

• “The state as a partnership: Cicero’s definition of Res Publica in his work On The State.”

  - Elisabeth Asmis,  “The state as a partnership: Cicero’s definition of Res Publica in his work On The State,”History of Political Thought 25.4: 569-99., 2004.

• Lectures in the History of Political Thought

  - Michael Oakeshott, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, eds. T. Nardin and L. O’Sullivan. Exeter, 2006.
  Overview: –  Oakeshott’s memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in… More

• Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius.

  - Robert A. Kaster, Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius. Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2006.
  Review: “…constantly enlightening and extremely broad in its scope…” – Bryn Mawr Reviews   Overview: –  This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero’s defense of Publius Sestius against… More