Historical and Contemporary Issues of Democracy, Person and Human Rights

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.

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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

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