Benjamin Straumann

By tracing Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the modern era, this study makes a contribution to our understanding of Roman political thought and its reception. Meer

Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. Meer