The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 1, The Ancient World

Clifford Ando is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author, translator, or editor of twenty-one books, including Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (2000), Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (2011), and Roman Social Imaginaries (2016). Mirko Canevaro is Professor of Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been funded by, among others, the European Research Council, UKRI, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He is author or editor of fifteen books, including The Documents in the Attic Orators (2013) and Commentaries of Demosthenes' Against Leptines (2016) and Aristotle's Politics 4 (2014) and 7-8 (2022). Benjamin Straumann is ERC Professor of History at the University of Zurich and Research Professor of Classics at New York University. He is also Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law. The recipient of a European Research Council grant, he is the author of Roman Law in the State of Nature (2015); Crisis and Constitutionalism (2016); and The Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and Their Legacy in Western Thought (2025).