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Lecture

On Civil Liberty and Fundamental Rights: A Neo-Roman Approach

Lecture organised by the Intellectual History Working Group

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12 April 2021

15:00 - 17:00 CEST

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on ZOOM

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This lecture focuses on a view about civil liberty that used to be widely accepted but became largely lost to sight after the rise to hegemony of the belief that freedom can be defined simply as absence of interference with choices and actions.

The lecture opens by outlining the earlier and rival claim that liberty is best conceived as the condition of not being subject to the power of others. This view is traced to Roman law traditions of thinking about the law of persons and their later incorporation into Common law discussions of freedom and fundamental rights. The lecture ends by considering how the re-appropriation and development of this perspective might help us to think more forcefully about some current threats to privacy and liberty. 

Chair: Thomas Ashby (EUI)

Hosted by the Intellectual History Working Group

The event will take place at 15:00 (CEST)

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Speaker(s):

Professor Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University London)

Scientific Organiser(s):

Thomas Ashby (EUI)

Contact(s):

Francesca Parenti