Susan Sauvé Meyer presents a new translation of Laws, 1 and 2: the opening books of Plato's last work, which discuss legislative theory, moral psychology, and aesthetics. This fluent, readable, and authoritative translation is accompanied by a critical commentary which explores the argument's structure, and the philosophical issues at stake. up to now, readers looking for a philosophically sensitive commentary on the work in English have had nowhere to turn . . . Susan Sauvé Meyer has begun to fill this lacuna with her excellent volume on Books I-II, a work that will put all serious students of the Laws into her considerable debt. It should also lead us to look forward eagerly to her continuation of the project in a future volume on Books III-V.