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    What does it truly mean to live in freedom? In a culture that often confuses freedom with mere choice or self-assertion, How to Live in Freedom Being Yourself invites readers to recover a deeper and richer understanding of human liberty. Drawing on philosophy, history, and lived experience, Aniceto Masferrer shows that authentic freedom is inseparable from truth, responsibility, and love. Rather ... Read more

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    The Role of Case Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries

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    The separation of powers produced by the Enlightenment period reinforced the myth of the “perfection of the law”, with criminal law being dependent on the principle of legality. Demonstrating that this principle has not fundamentally altered judges' methods of interpretation and decision-making, this collective volume explores the role of case law in the making of modern criminal law from the late ... Read more

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

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Criminal Law and Morality in the Age of Consent

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    This book discusses the relation between morality and politics, and morality and law, a field that has been studied for more than two thousand years The law is a part of human culture, and this touches upon a dynamic reality that is connected to the relation between nature and freedom, nature and culture. If such relations are not clearly understood, as is the case today, the relation between ... Read more

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    This volume is devoted to exploring a subject which, on the surface, might appear to be just a trending topic. In fact, it is much more than a trend. It relates to an ancient, permanent issue which directly connects with people’s life and basic needs: the recognition and protection of individuals’ dignity, in particular the inherent worthiness of the most vulnerable human beings. The content of ... Read more

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  • The Western Codification of Criminal Law

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    This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French ... Read more

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  • Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency

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    The terrorist attacks occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Atrocities like the 9/11 attacks, the Madrid train bombings of March 2003, and the terrorist act to the United Kingdom of July 2005 threatened the life of democratic nations. The volume explores the response of democratic nation ... Read more

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