The Editor

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC) by William Blake

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC) by William Blake

 

Mortimer Sellers

University System of Maryland
Regents Professor
Director, University of Baltimore, Center for International & Comparative Law

Selected Publications

Books

International Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Law, Reason, and Emotion (editor, Cambridge 2017)

Parochialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Foundations of International Law (editor, Cambridge, 2011)

The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective (editor, Springer, with Tadeusz Tomaszewski, 2010)

The Internationalization of Law and Legal Education (editor, Springer, with Jan Klabbers, 2008)

Autonomy in the Law (editor, Springer 2007)

Republican Principles in International Law: The Fundamental Requirements of a Just World Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (editor, Rowman & Littlefield with David Reidy, 2005)

Republican Legal Theory: The History, Constitution and Purposes of Law in a Free State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law (Macmillan, 1998) (Extract)

The New World Order: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the Self Determination of People (editor, Berg 1996)

American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution (Macmillan, 1994)

An Ethical Education: Community and Morality in the Multicultural University (editor, Berg 1994)

Selected Articles and Essays

The Constitutional Thought of Alexander Hamilton, in The Constitution and the Classics (Denis Galligan ed., forthcoming 2014).

The Roman Republic and the French and American Revolutions, in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic. (Harriet I. Flower, ed., 2d ed. 2014).

The Philosophical Aspects of Republicanism, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (James D. Wright, ed., 2d ed. forthcoming 2014).

What is the Rule of Law and Why Is It So Important?, in The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (James R. Silkenat, James E. Hickey, and Peter D. Barenboim, eds., 2014).

What Useful Role (if any) Could Legal Positivism Play in the Study or Advancement of International Law, 106 Proceedings Ann. Meeting  (Am. Soc’y. Int’l. L) 373 (2012 published in 2013).

Liberty, Equality, and the Rule of Law, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (March 3, 2014) (reviewing T.R.S. Allan, Freedom, Equality, Legality, in The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (James R. Silkenat, James E. Hickey, and Peter D. Barenboim, eds., 2014)).

The Influence on Marcus Tullius Cicero on Modern Legal and Political Ideas (5 June 2009)

Classical Influences on the American Founding Fathers (22 July 2009)

Classical Influences on the Law and Politics of the French Revolution (23 July 2009)

The Doctrine of Precedent in the United States of America (4 September 2008)

What is the Rule of Law and Why is it so Important? (4 July 2014)

The Origins of Republican Legal Theory (4 June 2008)

The Constitutional Thought of Alexander Hamilton (7 May 2014)

Introduction to Republic Legal Theory (4 June 2008)

Republican Influences on the French and American Revolutions (6 June 2008)

The Republican Foundations of International Law (2 May 2008)

Law, Reason, and Emotion (10 June 2014)

Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law (16 June 2008)

Universal Human Rights in the Law of the United States (11 April 2010)

The Actual Validity of Law (11 June 2008)

Republican Principles in International Law (18 June 2008)

Ideals of Public Discourse (16 June 2008)

Republican Legal Systems (9 June 2008)

Group Rights and Democracy (16 June 2008)

Basic Elements of Legislative Structure (19 June 2008)

Republican Authority (11 June 2008)

History, Liberty and Comparative Law (19 June 2008)

Republican Impartiality (9 June 2008)

Legal Historians and Social Change (19 June 2008)

Republican Government in the United States of America (18 June 2008)