Full Description
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.
Contents
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
