Roman Justice between Virtue and Law

Workshop Program, ERC Project “The Just City” Rome, November 11-12, 2021, Istituto Svizzero Programme Thursday, November 11 10:30AM: Welcome, coffee & tea 11AM-12:30PM: Opening speech Professor Christoph Horn (Bonn), followed by Q & A 12:30-2PM: Lunch break 2-4PM: Discussion among team members 4-5PM: Presentation Professor Johan Olsthoorn (Amsterdam) Friday, November 12 8:30-10AM: René de Nicolay (UZH/Princeton): “De rep. 5.1-2: Mores et Viri in the Republic”. Comments by Professor Yelena Baraz (Princeton) 10-11:30AM: Benjamin Straumann (UZH): “Roman Rights Talk: Subjective Rights in Cicero and Livy” (co-authored with Dan Edelstein, Stanford). Comments by Professor Valentina Arena (UCL) 11:30-1PM: Nikolas Hächler (UZH): “Justice and the Roman State in Lactantius and Augustine”. Comments by Professor Christoph Horn (Bonn) 1PM-2:30PM: Lunch break 2:30-4PM: Jeff Dymond (UZH): “Gentili’s Theory of Association in Context”. Comments by Professor Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley) 4-5:30PM: Signy Gutnick Allen (UZH): “A Title to Another’s Plenty: Rights of Charity in Locke’s Political Thought”. Comments by Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle (York)