René Brouwer (PhD Cambridge, MPhil Utrecht, LLM Amsterdam) teaches at the University of Utrecht. He works on a variety of subjects in ancient philosophy and in the philosophy and history of law. He is particularly interested in the ancient origins of notions such as wisdom, system, person or free will, for which his monographs The Stoic Sage (Cambridge University Press 2014) and Law and Philosophy in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press 2021) and the co-edited volume on Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age (Brill 2020) can be consulted. At the centre, he will be focusing on abilities in the Hellenistic period, how these were put to use by Stoic thinkers as well as Roman jurists, more particular on how the interaction between them resulted in the emergence of the notion of natural law as law found in nature.