About the Speaker:

René Brouwer (PhD Cambridge, MPhil Utrecht, LLM Amsterdam) is a lecturer at the University of Utrecht, where he teaches philosophy and law in the Faculty of Law. In 2013-14 he held a visiting professorship Philosophie der Antike und Moderne at the Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2020-21 he holds a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Surrey.

He publishes on a variety of subjects in the philosophy and history of law as well as in ancient philosophy. The co-edited volume Fate, Providence and Free Will in the Early Imperial Age came out in 2020; his monograph on the consequential interaction between Roman jurists and Hellenistic philosophers, Law and Philosophy in the Late Roman Republic, has recently been published with Cambridge University Press.

For his monograph on the Stoic sage (paperback 2018) see www.cambridge.org/9781107024212

Paper will be circulated close to the seminar date. Pre-reading optional.