Natural Rights and Politics in the Early Modern Period

Séminaire L'Esprit des Lumières et de la Révolution à la Scuola Superiore Meridionale de Naples, 2 et 3 Novembre 2023.

Natural Rights and Politics in the Early Modern Period

Présentation et programme


- Suzanne Levin and Giulio Talini, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli: Introduction: Natural Rights and Politics in the Early Modern Period.
- Davide Dainese, Università di Bologna: Objective and subjective dimensions of law: the transformation of ius naturale in the "practicals" of the 16th century.
- Susan Longfield Karr, University of Cincinnati: Between Natural Law and Human Rights: Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence.


- Alberto Scigliano, Università degli Studi di Torino. Rediscovering Talmud's Legal Tradition: Jewish Sources in the Natural Law Discourse of John Selden and Hugo Grotius.
- Thomas Bernard J. Croisez, European University Institute. La defensa es permitida segun derecho natural y humano. Natural rights, or the Jesuits' best assets in their armed defense of the province of Paraguay (1609-1641).

- Diego Carnavale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. «Essa umanità ebbe incominciamento dall’humare». The right to burial as a natural right in European legal thought (17th-18th century).

- Valentina Altopiedi, Università degli Studi di Torino. The missing revolution: the claim for women's rights in the eighteenth century.

- Laura André, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Natural human rights against Ideologues' republicanism?

- Andrea Moretti, Università di Udine e Trieste. Human Rights and political struggle. The Cisalpine Republic (1796-1799).

- Yannick Bosc, Université de Rouen Normandie. Concluding remarks: From order to anarchy: the end of a cycle.