Publications

2024 Op ed in ‘The Hill’ on office and the Trump immunity case Melissa Sharon Lane · The Hill — 2024 Op ed in the LA Times online-first on 3/23/2024 Melissa Sharon Lane · LA Times — 2024 The All-Affected Principle and Climate Change Melissa Sharon Lane · Empowering Affected Interests — 2023 Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political Melissa Sharon Lane · Princeton University Press — 2022 D. Scott, Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle Melissa Sharon Lane · Classical Review — 2021 G. Duke, Aristotle on Law Melissa Sharon Lane · Journal of the History of Philosophy — 2021 Plato’s Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion Melissa Sharon Lane · Oxford University Press — 2021 Statecraft as a ruling, weaving, and caring dunamis: [Plato, Statesman] 303d4-305e7 Melissa Sharon Lane · Plato's Statesman — 2021 Why Donald Trump was the Ultimate Anarchist Melissa Sharon Lane · New Statesman — 2020 Politics as architectonic expertise? Against taking the so-called ‘architect’ (ἀρχιτέκτων) in Plato’s Statesman to prefigure this Aristotelian view Melissa Sharon Lane · Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought — 2020 Self-knowledge in Plato? Recognizing the limits and aspirations of a self as knower Melissa Sharon Lane · Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy — 2020 Teaching Plato in the Pandemic Melissa Sharon Lane · Princeton — 2019 Ancient Ideas of Politics: Mediating between Ecology and Theology Melissa Sharon Lane · Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World — 2019 Technē and archē in Republic I Melissa Sharon Lane · Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy — 2019 The Classical Solution to the Problem of Public Integrity Melissa Sharon Lane · Aeon — 2019 The Idea of Accountable Office in Ancient Greece and Beyond Melissa Sharon Lane · Philosophy — 2019 Xenophon (and Thucydides) on Sparta (and Athens): debating willing obedience not only to laws, but also to magistrates Melissa Sharon Lane · Philosophie für die Polis — 2018 Ancient Political Philosophy Melissa Sharon Lane · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — 2018 Historicizing climate change – engaging new approaches to climate and history Melissa Sharon Lane · Climatic Change — 2018 How to turn history into scenario: Plato’s Republic Book 8 on the role of political office in constitutional change Melissa Sharon Lane · How To Do Things With History — 2018 Placing Plato in the History of Liberty Melissa Sharon Lane · History of European Ideas — 2018 Plato on the value of knowledge in ruling Melissa Sharon Lane · Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume — 2018 S. Gray, A Defence of Rule: Origins of Political Thought in Ancient Greece and India Melissa Sharon Lane · Perspectives on Politics — 2018 Uncertainty, Action, and Politics: The Problem of Negligibility Melissa Sharon Lane · Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment, eds. Katrina Forrester and Sophie Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) — 2017 In Conversation Melissa Sharon Lane · King’s Centre for Strategic Communications, Department of War Studies, KCL — 2017 Why bureaucrats matter in the fight to preserve the rule of law Melissa Sharon Lane · Aeon — 2016 Antianarchia: Interpreting Political Thought in Plato Melissa Sharon Lane · PLATO JOURNAL — 2016 Aristotle on the Ethics of Communicating Climate Change Melissa Sharon Lane · Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World — 2016 Guard against Elitism Melissa Sharon Lane · Zócalo Public Square — 2016 Introduction Melissa Sharon Lane · Aristotle's Politics — 2016 Political Theory on Climate Change Melissa Sharon Lane · Annual Review of Political Science — 2016 Popular Sovereignty as Control of Officeholders: Aristotle on Greek Democracy Melissa Sharon Lane · Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective — 2015 An Ancient Civics Lesson Melissa Sharon Lane · New York Times — 2015 Does Rational Ignorance Imply Smaller Government, or Smarter Democratic Innovation? Melissa Sharon Lane · Critical Review — 2015 Roman Censorship, Spartan Parallels, and Modern Uses in Rousseau’s Social Contract Melissa Sharon Lane · Censorship Moments — 2015 Sophocles, Sisterhood, and Individuality: New Books on Sophocles and his Antigone Melissa Sharon Lane · Political Theory — 2014 A. G. Long, Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato Melissa Sharon Lane · Classical Review — 2014 Es Ist Nicht Egal, Was Du Tust Melissa Sharon Lane · CICERO — 2014 Greek and Roman Political Ideas Melissa Sharon Lane · Penguin Press (Pelican imprint) — 2014 The ethics of scientific communication under uncertainty Melissa Sharon Lane · Politics, Philosophy &amp; Economics — 2013 Claims to rule: the case of the multitude Melissa Sharon Lane · The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics — 2013 Éco-République : Platon et le développement durable Melissa Sharon Lane · Revue françaıse d'hıstoıre des idees politiques — 2013 Founding as legislating: the figure of the lawgiver in Plato’s Republic Melissa Sharon Lane · Dialogues on Plato’s Politeia (Republic): Selected Papers from the Ninth Symposium Platonicum — 2013 How the Greeks viewed Weapons Melissa Sharon Lane · The New Yorker Culture Blog — 2013 Introduction Melissa Sharon Lane · <i>Politeia </i>in Greek and Roman Philosophy — 2013 Lifeless writings or living script? The life of law in Plato, Middle Platonism, and Jewish Platonizers Melissa Sharon Lane · Cardozo Law Review — 2013 Platonizing the Spartan Politeia in Plutarch’s Lycurgus Melissa Sharon Lane · Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy — 2013 Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy Melissa Sharon Lane · Cambridge University Press — 2013 Political Expertise and Political Office in Plato’s Statesman: the statesman’s rule (archein) and the subordinate magistracies (archai) Melissa Sharon Lane · Plato’s Statesman - Proceedings of the eighth Symposium Platonicum Pragense — 2013 When the experts are uncertain: scientific knowledge and the ethics of democratic judgment Melissa Sharon Lane · Episteme —