The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition
A Retrospective Analysis
Published on 23. December 2023
Book
Hardback
IX, 192 pages
978-3-031-46666-3 (ISBN)
Description
The book describes in a retrospective way how dignity and human rights evolved. In doing so, the book is divided in three parts: human rights from present to early modern age, human dignity from present to Early modern age and dignity and human rights from present to future.
The book has been written in a way that might me appealing to graduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and even laymen who are interested in the making of dignity and human rights in the Western.
The book has been written in a way that might me appealing to graduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and even laymen who are interested in the making of dignity and human rights in the Western.
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Series
Edition
2023 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 192 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-46666-3 (9783031466663)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-46667-0
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A Retrospective Analysis
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A Retrospective Analysis
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Person
Aniceto Masferrer
is a Professor of Legal History and teaches legal history and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Spain He has been a Visiting Fellow or Professor at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (2000-2003), the University of Cambridge (2005), Harvard Law School (2006-2007), Melbourne Law School (2008), the University of Tasmania (2010), Louisiana State University - The Paul M. Hebert Law Center - (2013), George Washington University Law School and at the École Normale Supérieure - Paris (2015). He has lectured at universities around the world (France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, Israel, UK, Sweden, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
Content
From the present to the past of human rights: From human rights to natural rights.- Looking backwards on the notion of human dignity: From the Spanish 1978 Constitution to the discovery of America.- Looking forwards to the future of dignity and human rights: New generation rights.