Author: Jorge Rodrigues Simão

The Chimera of Origins   Problems emerge at the start with the question of origins. Where should a history of human rights begin? With Roman law perhaps, where the concept ius humanum can indeed be historically documented,...

Introduction    How can we adjudge to summary and shameful death a fellow creature innocent before God, and whom we feel to be so? – Does that state it a right? You sign sad assent. Well, I too feel that, the full force of that....