Recently published:

  • ‘[Review of] Bernard Collette, The Stoic Doctrine of Providence, Abingdon 2022’, Gnomon 95 (2023), 592-5
  • ‘The Normativity of Law in Nature Revisited: Natural Law in Late Hellenistic Thought’, Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi 4 (2022), Supplement, pp. 91-110 
  • Law and Philosophy in the Late Roman Republic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021 (see www.cambridge.org/9781108491488)
  • ‘Cynic Origins of Natural Law?’ in: Adamson, P., Rapp, C. (eds.), State and Nature in Antiquity, Berlin: De Gruyter 2021, pp. 159-80
  • ‘Why Human Beings Become Bad: the Early Stoic Doctrine of Double Perversion’ in: Malaspina, E., Wildberger, J. (eds.), Axiological Confusion and Its Causes (Pegé/Fons 5), Madrid 2020, pp. 61-82 (doi.org/10.20318/fons.2020.5055)
  • Fate, Providence, and Free Will in the Early Imperial Age, Leiden: Brill 2020 (edited volume with E. Vimercati)
  • ‘Divine Will and Human Will in Later Stoicism’ in: Brouwer, R., Vimercati, E. (eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will in the Early Imperial Age, Leiden: Brill 2020, pp. 31-48
  • ‘Introduction’ (with E. Vimercati) in: Brouwer, R., Vimercati, E. (eds.), Fate, Providence, and Free Will in the Early Imperial Age, Leiden: Brill 2020, pp. 1-13
  • ‘Stoic Ethics and Socratic Ignorance’ in: Arenson, K. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook to Hellenistic Philosophy, New York: Routledge 2020, pp. 107-18
  • ‘[Review of] Wildberger, J., The Stoics and the State, Baden-Baden 2018’, Polis 37 (2020), pp. 177-180
  • ‘Funerals, Faces, and Hellenistic Philosophy: On the Origins of the Concept of Person in Rome’ in: Lolordo, A. (ed.), Persons. A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), New York: Oxford University Press 2019, pp. 19-45
  • ‘The Stoics on Luck’ in: Church, I., Hartman, R. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 34-44
  • The Stoic Sage. The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018 (paperback edition)
  • ‘On the Meaning of ‘System’ in the Common and Civil Law Traditions: Two Approaches to Legal Unity’, Utrecht Journal of International and European Law 34 (2018), pp. 45-55 (doi.org/10.5334/ujiel.451)
  • Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics, Cham: Springer 2018 (volume edited with E. Cohen de Lara)
  • ‘Introduction’ (with Emma Cohen de Lara) in: Cohen de Lara, E., Brouwer, R. (eds.), Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics, Cham: Springer 2018, pp. 1-11
  • ‘Aristotle on Justice in the Ethics and Politics’ in: Cohen de Lara, E., Brouwer, R. (eds.), Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between the Ethics and Politics, Cham: Springer 2018, pp. 51-63
  • ‘The Study of Law As an Academic Discipline’, Utrecht Law Review 13 (2017), pp. 41-8 (doi.org/10.18352/ulr.405)
  • ‘‘Richer Than the Greeks’: Cicero’s Constitutional Thought in Republic 1’ in: Höffe, O. (ed.), Ciceros Staatsphilosophie, Berlin: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 33-46
  • ‘Zeno of Citium’ [2016], Classical Time Line, see ancientthought.org
  • ‘Stoic Sympathy’ in: Schliesser, E. (ed.), Sympathy (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), New York: Oxford University Press 2015, pp. 15-35
  • ‘Ulpian’s Appeal to Nature: Roman Law as Universal Law’, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d’histoire du droit / The Legal History Review 83 (2015), pp. 60-76
  • The Stoic Sage. The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014, see www.cambridge.org/9781107024212
  • ‘Mensenrechten bij Cicero’, Ars aequi 2013, pp. 965-970 (reprinted in: Berge, L. van den et al. (eds.), Historische wortels van het recht, Nijmegen: Ars aequi 2014, pp. 253-61)
  • ‘[Review of] Wolfgang Kullmann, Naturgesetz in der Vorstellung der Antike, besonders der Stoa, Stuttgart 2010’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung. Romanistische Abteilung 130 (2013), pp. 745-8

Academic presentations:

  • Cicero's Cosmopolitanism (Forum Hellenisticum 2023)
  • Justice and Propert (Nijmgen 2023)
  • Roman Law and Hellenistic Philosophy (Surrey 2023)
  • Post-Hellenistic Philosophers and Early Imperial Jurists, a Comparative Approach (Toronto 2022)
  • Origins of Natural Law (Edinburgh 2022, Surrey 2023)
  • Philosophy and Roman Law: Methods and Concepts (Utrecht 2022)
  • The Normativity of Law in Nature Revisited: Natural Law in Late Hellenistic thought Ancient Philosophy (Hull 2021)
  • Plato's and Aristotle's Conceptions of Justice (Amsterdam 2020)
  • Rhetoric, Philosophy and Law in Late Republican Rome (Prague 2020)
  • Socrates and Stoic Ethics (Oslo 2019)
  • The Origins of the Notion of Science and Its Impact on Modern Law (Moscow 2019)
  • Musonius Rufus on Gender Equality (London 2019)
  • Rethinking Dispute Resolution (Utrecht 2019)
  • Cynic Origins of Natural Law (Hull, Novi Sad 2018)
  • On the Origins of the Notion of Person in Ancient Rome and Its Modern Afterlife (Nijmegen 2018)
  • Cynic Origins of Stoic Cosmopolitanism (Utrecht 2017)
  • On the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Study of Law (Utrecht 2017, Surrey 2017)
  • Trias politica and the Rule of Law in the Late Roman Republic? On the Interaction between Greek Thought and Roman Law (Utrecht 2017)
  • Divine Will and Human Will in Later Stoicism (Rome 2017)
  • ‘Doing What One Pleases’: On the Origins of a Roman Definition of Liberty (Bologna 2017)
  • ‘Giving Each Her Due.’ On Greek Reform Proposals in Rome (Utrecht 2017)
  • Against Revolutions: Cicero on Legal Tradition (Maastricht 2017)
  • Stoicism and Roman law: Systematisation in the Late Roman Republic (Brussels 2017)
  • Recht als Wissenschaft (Tübingen 2017)
  • A Scientific Revolution in the 1st Century BCE? Law and Science in the Late Roman Republic (Utrecht 2017)
  • Cicero on Stability in the State (Paris II 2016)
  • The Introduction of Person in Roman Law (Moscow 2016, see http://laos.msses.ru)
  • Aristotle’s Conception of Justice (Utrecht 2016)
  • The Methodology of the Study of Roman Law (Utrecht 2016)
  • The Transformation of the Study of Roman Law in the Early 1st Century BCE (Istanbul 2015)
  • Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics (Amsterdam 2015)
  • Cleanthes on Ethics (Vienna 2015)
  • The Stoics on Law and Emotions (Amsterdam 2014)
  • Cynics and Stoics on Law and Nature (Munich 2014)
  • Cicero and the Introduction of Rules in Law (Naples 2014)
  • Cicero on Private Property and Justice (Groningen 2014)
  • Ulpian’s Appeal to Nature (Salzburg 2013, Groningen 2014)
  • Some Historical and Comparative Observations on the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Study of Law (Amsterdam 2013)
  • Philosophy as the Exercise of Fitting Expertise (Eindhoven 2012)
  • Obedience to the Law in the Crito (Cambridge 2012, Utrecht 2013)
  • The Stoics and Sympathy: Its Naturalistic Origins (Richmond, Virginia 2012)
  • On the Origins of Human Rights in Antiquity (Stanford 2012, Oxford 2012)

Sleutelpublicaties

Brouwer, R. (2008). On the Ancient Background of Grotius’s Notion of Natural Law. Grotiana, 29, 1-24.
Brouwer, R. (2011). On Law and Equity: the Stoic View. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Romanistische Abteilung, 128, 17-38.
Brouwer, R. (2011). Polybius on Stoic tychē. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 51, 111-132. http://grbs.library.duke.edu
Brouwer, R. (2014). The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates. (Cambridge classical studies). Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/stoic-sage-early-stoics-wisdom-sagehood-and-socrates

Publicaties

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2020). Why Human Beings Become Bad: the Early Stoic Doctrine of Double Perversion. ΠΗΓΗ/FONS, 5, 61-82. https://doi.org/10.20318/fons.2020.5055
Brouwer, R. (2020). Socratic Ignorance and Ethics in the Stoa. In K. Arenson (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (1 ed., pp. 112-123). (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351168120-9
Brouwer, R. (2020). Divine and Human Will in Imperial Stoicism. In R. Brouwer, & E. Vimercati (Eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age (pp. 31-48). (Ancient Philosophy and Religion; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436381_004
Brouwer, R., & Vimercati, E. (2020). Introduction. In R. Brouwer, & E. Vimercati (Eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age (pp. 1-13). (Ancient Philosophy and Religion; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436381_002
Brouwer, R., & Vimercati, E. (Eds.) (2020). Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age. (Ancient Philosophy and Religion; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436381
Brouwer, R. (2020). Book Review: Stoics and the State: Theory – Practice – Context, written by Jula Wildberger. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 37(1), 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340262

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2019). Funerals, Faces and Hellenistic Philosophy: On the Origins of the Concept of Persons in Rome. In A. Lolordo (Ed.), Persons: A History (pp. 19-45). (Oxford Philosophical Concepts). Oxford University Press, USA. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190634384.003.0002
Brouwer, R. (2019). The Stoics on Luck. In I. Church, & R. Hartman (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck (pp. 34-44). (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy). Routledge.

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2018). The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates. (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge University Press.
Brouwer, R. (2018). Over de oorsprong van de term persoon in het Westerse recht. Ars aequi, 67, 281-287.
Cohen de Lara, E., & Brouwer, R. (2018). Introduction. In Aristotle's Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics (pp. 1-11). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64825-5_1
Brouwer, R. (2018). On the Meaning of ‘System’ in the Common and Civil Law Traditions: Two Approaches to Legal Unity. Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 34(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.5334/ujiel.451
Brouwer, R. (2018). Justice in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. In Aristotle's Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics (pp. 51-64). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64825-5_4
Cohen de Lara, E., & Brouwer, R. (Eds.) (2018). Aristotle's Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64825-5

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2017). The Study of Law as an Academic Discipline. Utrecht Law Review, 13(3), 41-48. https://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.405
Brouwer, R. (2017). 'Richer than the Greeks': Cicero's Constitutional Thought in Republic 1. In O. Höffe (Ed.), Ciceros Staatsphilosophie (pp. 33-46). (Klassiker Auslegen). De Gruyter.

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2015). Stoic Sympathy. In E. Schliesser (Ed.), Sympathy: A History (pp. 15-35). (Oxford Philosophical Concepts). Oxford University Press, USA.
Brouwer, R. (2015). Ulpian's Appeal to Nature: Roman Law as Universal Law. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, 83(1-2), 60-76. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718190-08312p04

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2014). The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates. (Cambridge classical studies). Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/stoic-sage-early-stoics-wisdom-sagehood-and-socrates

2013

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2013). Mensenrechten bij Cicero. Ars aequi, 965-970.
Brouwer, R. (2013). Review of Wolfgang Kullmann, Naturgesetz in der Vorstellung der Antike, besonders der Stoa, Stuttgart 2010. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Romanistische Abteilung, 130, 745-748.

2012

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2012). Musil’s Search for Ethics. Monatshefte, 104, 511-526.

2011

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2011). On Law and Equity: the Stoic View. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Romanistische Abteilung, 128, 17-38.
Brouwer, R. (2011). Polybius on Stoic tychē. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 51, 111-132. http://grbs.library.duke.edu
Brouwer, R. (2011). Over de klassieke oorsprong van de rechten van de mens. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie, 40, 98-117. http://www.bjutijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/rechtsfilosofieentheorie/2011/2/RenR_1875-2306_2011_040_002_004

2008

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2008). On the Ancient Background of Grotius’s Notion of Natural Law. Grotiana, 29, 1-24.
Brouwer, R. (2008). Hellenistic Philosophers on Phaedrus 229B-230A. Cambridge Classical Journal, 55(2008), 30-48.

2007

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Brouwer, R. (2007). The Early Stoic Doctrine of the Change to Wisdom. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 33, 285-315.
Brouwer, R. (2007). Zeno's Political Thought: the City of Sages. In Archelogos Project Zeno http://www.archelogos.com/zeno/phessay.htm
Brouwer, R. (2007). Stoic prokopē. Classical Review, N.S. 57, 73-75.