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The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition

A Retrospective Analysis

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Authors:
  1. Aniceto Masferrer

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  • Presents the formation of human dignity and human rights in a retrospective manner
  • Analyses the relationship between nature, natural law and natural rights, from Antiquity to Modern times
  • Looks forwards to the future of dignity and human rights

Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 29)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. From Human Rights to Natural Rights

    • Aniceto Masferrer
    Pages 1-97

  3. Looking Backwards on the Notion of Human Dignity: From the Spanish 1978 Constitution to the Discovery of America

    • Aniceto Masferrer
    Pages 99-149

  4. Looking Forwards to the Future of Dignity and Human Rights: New Generation Rights

    • Aniceto Masferrer
    Pages 151-188

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 189-192
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Aniceto Masferrer

About the author

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition

  • Book Subtitle: A Retrospective Analysis

  • Authors: Aniceto Masferrer

  • Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46667-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46666-3Published: 23 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46669-4Due: 23 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46667-0Published: 22 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2198-9842

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 192

  • Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Human Rights

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