Author: Jorge Rodrigues Simão

  Rights, Nations, and Empires since 1800   The concept of the “rights of man” ( droits de l’homme, Menschenrechte ), however, essentially  vanished from European politics in the epoch between the 18th century revolutions and...

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....