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 laymen who are interested in the making of dignity and human rights in the Western.

Presents the formation of human dignity and human rights in a retrospective manner Analyses the relationship between nature, natural law and natural rights, from Antiquity to Modern times Looks forwards to the future of dignity and human rights

Autorentext

Aniceto Masferrer is a Professor of Legal History and teaches legal history and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Spain He has been a Visiting Fellow or Professor at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (2000-2003), the University of Cambridge (2005), Harvard Law School (2006-2007), Melbourne Law School (2008), the University of Tasmania (2010), Louisiana State University - The Paul M. Hebert Law Center - (2013), George Washington University Law School and at the École Normale Supérieure - Paris (2015). He has lectured at universities around the world (France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, Israel, UK, Sweden, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).

Inhalt
From the present to the past of human rights: From human rights to natural rights.- Looking backwards on the notion of human dignity: From the Spanish 1978 Constitution to the discovery of America.- Looking forwards to the future of dignity and human rights: New generation rights.