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Historical and Contemporary Issues of Democracy, Person and Human Rights New edition [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 496 pages, kõrgus x laius: 210x148 mm, kaal: 703 g, 2 Illustrations
  • Sari: Ius, Lex et Res Publica 41
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Aug-2025
  • Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG
  • ISBN-10: 3631928343
  • ISBN-13: 9783631928349
Historical and Contemporary Issues of Democracy, Person and Human Rights New edition
  • Formaat: Hardback, 496 pages, kõrgus x laius: 210x148 mm, kaal: 703 g, 2 Illustrations
  • Sari: Ius, Lex et Res Publica 41
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Aug-2025
  • Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG
  • ISBN-10: 3631928343
  • ISBN-13: 9783631928349
The book is an expression of the interdisciplinary debate on the democratic rule of law in historical and contemporary terms. The authors have addressed the problems of democracy from ancient times to contemporary issues of education, access to information, human rights, gender equality, migration and criminal law. Issues relating to property rights and their protection, the right to privacy and inheritance law are also analysed. The book also addresses issues related to virtual reality, including cybersecurity and the protection of personal data. The publication reflects a discussion on the past, present and future of democracy and makes a significant contribution to the development of scholarship.

The book examines democracy's evolution from ancient times to today, addressing topics like education, human rights, gender equality, migration, law, property rights, privacy, and virtual reality. It offers interdisciplinary insights and contributes to ongoing scholarly debate.
Chapter I. Democracy in Ancient Rome


Anna Tarwacka: The missing pieces. Elements of control in the puzzle of the
Roman Republic


José Luis Zamora Manzano: Disinformation and Democracy in Roman Law:
Candidates and Election Campaigns


Rosanna Ortu: Evidence from the Libri Augurum on certan juridical-religious
aspects of the Dictator


Elzbieta Loska: The auspices in the activities of plebian tribunes


Anna Karabowicz: Lex est quod populus iubet atque constituit (Gai 1.3):
law-making functions of popular assemblies as the factor of democratisation
in the Roman republican contitution


Chapter II. Contemporary issues of democracy


Dariusz Makilla: Constitutional democracy. The case of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth in the 16th-17th Centuries


Artur Kotowski: Remarks on Shaw vs. DPP. (1962) based on Herbert Hart's "Law,
liberty and morality". What does it tell us about legal activism?


Salvatore Antonello Parente: Participatory democracy and ius impositionis


Edyta Sokalska: New wave of deliberate democracy - international discourse


Katarzyna Kubuj: Engaging young people in democracy. General remarks and the
Polish perspective


Rosa Indellicato: Educating for human rights: Olympe de Gouges a model of
courage and justice


Juliusz Mrozinski: Constitutional court of a democratic legal state as an
institution of dialogue at the intersection of political and legal
traditions


Agnieszka Wojcik-Czerniawska, Maria Jasinska: World paradigms and the future
- quo vadis humanitas?


Chapter III. Legal situation of a person from ancient Rome to modern times


Amparo Montanana Casani: Women, law, peace and freedom


Belen Fernandez Vizcaino: The principle of gender equality in european
thought and its antecedents in Roman law


Slawomir Kursa: Honour and good name as an element of the right to privacy.
Contemporary regulations and their Roman origins


Renata Kaminska: The right to property and the right to restrict it in Roman
law


Ewelina Mikulska: A will - a source of knowledge about the hopes and needs of
the dying


Malgorzata Eysymontt: Legal protection of the creditor in European Order for
Payment Procedure - analysis and commentary on selected provisions of EU law


Lukasz Majewski: Gladiators - champions - duellists. A contribution to the
institution of duel


Chapter IV. Human rights in a democratic state


Bronislaw Sitek: Romanization, globalization and virutal reality


Agata Hauser: Democracy in crisis and its effects on the enjoyment of human
rights


Wojciech J. Kosior: A contemporary perspective on the functions of punishment
of Roman criminal law


Ewa Dawidziuk: Dignity of prisoners - why we need to protect it?


Natalia Piotrowska: The right to a court (the right to a fair trial) in
relation to the selected institutions in civil proceedings, taking into
consideration the historical context of their establishment


Ewa Pietrzak, Dominika Kuna: Is the right to labour strike a fundamental
human right?


Marina Khachatryan-Zagorska: A person in a specific social group,
geographical location and country of origin in the face of his democratic
freedoms and the right to self-determination


Chapter V. Access to information in a democratic state


Maria Lidon Lara Ortiz: The relevance of public information access in
democracy - the Spanish law perspective


Elzbieta Zebek: 'Environmental democracy' and the protection of natural
elements - legal instruments and ecological considerations


Chalubinska-Jentkiewicz Katarzyna: Fighting harmful content - censorship in
the name of cybersecurity


Monika Nowikowska: Digital identity and the right to privacy and data
protection


Katarzyna B. Wojtkiewicz: The role of legal entity identification in modern
governance and data management


Maciej Pleban: Abuse of access to public information in a democratic state of
law
Ewa Dawidziuk has a PhD in law and is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the SWPS University. Anna Tarwacka is a professor of Roman law at the CSW University, as well as the director of the Institute for Legal Studies. Slawomir Kursa has a PhD in law with habil. and is an associate professor at the SWPS University, as well as the deputy dean of the Faculty of Law in Warsaw.