The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome

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.