Morrell K. The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome 2025

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Morrell K. The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome 2025

Textbook in PDF format This volume brings together the study of the rule of law - the idea that the law should protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of powerand the study of ancient Rome. Its chapters apply insights and approaches drawn from modern legal theory in order to understand the ways in which Romans thought abou - t law and the place of law in their community, the extent to which Roman institutions and political norms protected citizens against the arbitrary exercise of power, and how these ideas and practices changed with Rome’s transition from republic to empire. Part I offers an overview of the modern concept of the rule of law and some of the challenges and possibilities of seeking a rule of law in ancient Rome. Part II focuses on the Roman republic and the relationship between key institutions and the law (including the senate, magistrates, people, and state religion), as well as the attitudes of some prominent late republican individuals towards the rule of law. Part III on the principate and empire explores aspirations for the rule of law in the wake of civil war, the relationship between the emperor and the law, and the nature of the emperor’s role as above the law but guarantor of justice. Together, the chapters reveal a world where elements of the rule of law are recognizable but inconsistently realized and sometimes subordinate to alternative ideals of justice, popular sovereignty, or the personal authority of individuals. Eleanor Cowan is a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She is an historian of the Roman Republic and the Early Imperial period. Her research concentrates on communities in - and post- conflict; on constructions of autocracy; on domestic abuse in the ancient world and on Latin historiography. Kit Morrell is the Susan Blake Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the political and legal history of the late Roman republic. Andrew Pettinger is an honorary associate in Ancient History at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the emergence of the Tiberian age, constitutional change under Augustus, and the role of politics in periods of transition. Michael Sevel is Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School. He researches issues in general jurisprudence, the rule of law, and moral and political philosophy, including the nature of political authority and the moral obligation to obey the law