Historical and Contemporary Issues of Democracy, Person and Human Rights

Ewa Dawidziuk has a PhD in law and is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the SWPS University. Anna Tarwacka is a professor of Roman law at the CSW University, as well as the director of the Institute for Legal Studies. Slawomir Kursa has a PhD in law with habil. and is an associate professor at the SWPS University, as well as the deputy dean of the Faculty of Law in Warsaw.

• Chapter I. Democracy in Ancient Rome Anna Tarwacka: The missing pieces. Elements of control in the puzzle of the Roman RepublicJosé Luis Zamora Manzano: Disinformation and Democracy in Roman Law: Candidates and Election CampaignsRosanna Ortu: Evidence from the Libri Augurum on certan juridical-religious aspects of the DictatorElzbieta Loska: The auspices in the activities of plebian tribunesAnna 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 contitutionChapter II. Contemporary issues of democracyDariusz Makilla: Constitutional democracy. The case of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-17th CenturiesArtur 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 impositionisEdyta Sokalska: New wave of deliberate democracy - international discourseKatarzyna Kubuj: Engaging young people in democracy. General remarks and the Polish perspectiveRosa Indellicato: Educating for human rights: Olympe de Gouges a model of courage and justiceJuliusz Mrozinski: Constitutional court of a democratic legal state as an institution of dialogue at the intersection of political and legal traditionsAgnieszka Wojcik-Czerniawska, Maria Jasinska: World paradigms and the future - quo vadis humanitas?Chapter III. Legal situation of a person from ancient Rome to modern timesAmparo Montanana Casani: Women, law, peace and freedomBelen Fernandez Vizcaino: The principle of gender equality in european thought and its antecedents in Roman lawSlawomir Kursa: Honour and good name as an element of the right to privacy. Contemporary regulations and their Roman originsRenata Kaminska: The right to property and the right to restrict it in Roman lawEwelina Mikulska: A will - a source of knowledge about the hopes and needs of the dyingMalgorzata Eysymontt: Legal protection of the creditor in European Order for Payment Procedure - analysis and commentary on selected provisions of EU lawLukasz Majewski: Gladiators - champions - duellists. A contribution to the institution of duelChapter IV. Human rights in a democratic stateBronislaw Sitek: Romanization, globalization and virutal realityAgata Hauser: Democracy in crisis and its effects on the enjoyment of human rightsWojciech J. Kosior: A contemporary perspective on the functions of punishment of Roman criminal lawEwa 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 establishmentEwa 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-determinationChapter V. Access to information in a democratic stateMaria Lidon Lara Ortiz: The relevance of public information access in democracy - the Spanish law perspectiveElzbieta Zebek: 'Environmental democracy' and the protection of natural elements - legal instruments and ecological considerationsChalubinska-Jentkiewicz Katarzyna: Fighting harmful content - censorship in the name of cybersecurityMonika Nowikowska: Digital identity and the right to privacy and data protectionKatarzyna B. Wojtkiewicz: The role of legal entity identification in modern governance and data managementMaciej Pleban: Abuse of access to public information in a democratic state of law