Cicero and Modern Law

Richard O. Brooks is a Professor at the Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont, USA.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I Cicero's Life, Predecessors and Works: Introduction to the philosophy of Cicero, Richard McKeon. Part II The Roman Law and Rhetorical Practice: Cicero and the spectacle of power, Andrew J.E. Bell; Cicero and the defining of the Ius Civile, Jill Harries. Part III Cicero's Works: Rhetoric: De Oratore and the development of Controversia, Michael Mendelson. De Republica: The Overall Structure: A new kind of model: Cicero's Roman constitution in De Republica, Elizabeth Asmis; The Nature of Res Publica: Cicero's definition of Res Publica, Malcolm Schofield; Natural Law: The philosophical foundation of Roman law: Aristotle, the Stoics and Roman theories of natural law, John R. Kroger; Mixed Government: The theory of the mixed constitution in Rome, Andrew Lintott; Property: The economic dimension of Cicero's political thought: property and state, Neal Wood. De Legibus: Original elements in Cicero's ideal constitution, C.W. Keyes. De Officiis: 'Domina et regina virtutum': justice and societas in De Officiis, E.M. Atkins. Part IV Cicero's Method of Thought: Philosophic method in Cicero, Michael J. Buckley; Invention, Walter Watson. Part V The Collapse of the Republic and the Death of Cicero: The federalist and the lessons of Rome, Louis J. Sirico Jr. Part VI Cicero's Influence in Western Civilization: The Stoic origin of natural rights, Philip Mitsis. Part VII Cicero and Modern Political, Legal and Rhetorical Ideals: Republicanism: Republicanism: the career of a concept, Daniel T. Rodgers; Republicanism, liberalism and the law, Mortimer Sellars, Liberalism and republicanism, Philip Pettit; Rhetoric: Graeco-Roman rhetoric: the canon and its history, Michael Frost; Name Index.