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.

• Introduction Framing Questions 1: Michael Sevel: The Rule of Law: A Thought Pattern 2: Michael Peachin: In Search of a Roman Rule of Law The Republic 3: Kit Morrell: Cato and the Rule of Law 4: Amy Russell: The Populus and the Rule of Law 5: Catherine Steel: 'Rule of Law' and the Gods in the Late Republic 6: Andrew Pettinger: The Praetor's Edict and the Rule of Law 7: W. Jeffrey Tatum: Non Iure Rogata: The People, the Senate, and the Rule of Law in Republican Rome 8: Andrew M. Riggsby: Not in the Last Instance Principate and Empire 9: Eleanor Cowan: Aspiration, Accountability, and Abuse: Augustus and the Law in Post-Conflict Rome 10: Tristan S. Taylor: Princeps legibus solutus est an non? Cultures of Legality in the Roman Empire 11: Kaius Tuori: The Emperor as the Good Judge: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Jurisdiction as a Discourse on Justice and Rule of Law 12: Cosimo Cascione: Some Remarks on Certainty Roman Law

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.

• Introduction Framing Questions 1: Michael Sevel: The Rule of Law: A Thought Pattern 2: Michael Peachin: In Search of a Roman Rule of Law The Republic 3: Kit Morrell: Cato and the Rule of Law 4: Amy Russell: The Populus and the Rule of Law 5: Catherine Steel: 'Rule of Law' and the Gods in the Late Republic 6: Andrew Pettinger: The Praetor's Edict and the Rule of Law 7: W. Jeffrey Tatum: Non Iure Rogata: The People, the Senate, and the Rule of Law in Republican Rome 8: Andrew M. Riggsby: Not in the Last Instance Principate and Empire 9: Eleanor Cowan: Aspiration, Accountability, and Abuse: Augustus and the Law in Post-Conflict Rome 10: Tristan S. Taylor: Princeps legibus solutus est an non? Cultures of Legality in the Roman Empire 11: Kaius Tuori: The Emperor as the Good Judge: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Jurisdiction as a Discourse on Justice and Rule of Law 12: Cosimo Cascione: Some Remarks on Certainty Roman Law

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.

• Introduction Framing Questions 1: Michael Sevel: The Rule of Law: A Thought Pattern 2: Michael Peachin: In Search of a Roman Rule of Law The Republic 3: Kit Morrell: Cato and the Rule of Law 4: Amy Russell: The Populus and the Rule of Law 5: Catherine Steel: 'Rule of Law' and the Gods in the Late Republic 6: Andrew Pettinger: The Praetor's Edict and the Rule of Law 7: W. Jeffrey Tatum: Non Iure Rogata: The People, the Senate, and the Rule of Law in Republican Rome 8: Andrew M. Riggsby: Not in the Last Instance Principate and Empire 9: Eleanor Cowan: Aspiration, Accountability, and Abuse: Augustus and the Law in Post-Conflict Rome 10: Tristan S. Taylor: Princeps legibus solutus est an non? Cultures of Legality in the Roman Empire 11: Kaius Tuori: The Emperor as the Good Judge: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Jurisdiction as a Discourse on Justice and Rule of Law 12: Cosimo Cascione: Some Remarks on Certainty Roman Law