Auteur: Benjamin Straumann

Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution–the concept of a …

This book makes the important but surprisingly under-explored argument that modern international law was built on the foundations of Roman law and Roman imperial practice. A pivotal figure in this …

Was the Roman Empire just? Did Rome acquire her territories through just wars, and did Rome’s rule exert a civilizing effect, ultimately beneficial for its subjects? Or was Roman imperialism a …

Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution–the concept of a …

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